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dublin / education / event notice Wednesday November 28, 2018 - 22:57 by anon
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In today's society, ‘more education' is marketed as the cure-all for economic and social ills. Conventional wisdom suggests that larger education budgets reduce social exclusion and inequality; that increasing numbers of university graduates turbo-charge growth; and that more classroom learning creates greater mobility. But if these ideas are true, then why has productivity growth slowed at a time when there are more graduates than ever before? Why, then, does social mobility also seem so stubbornly low and inequality so high in this hyper-educated environment? ... read full story / add a comment
national / education / press release Monday October 29, 2018 - 21:29 by pbp
Thousands of children are in danger of huge disruption to their education because of the school building scandal. About 40 schools are due to be inspected because of concerns about serious structural defects. Defects have already been found in a number of schools built by Western Building Systems. This company won a large amount of contracts from the Department of Education and was responsible for building many schools. ... read full story / add a comment
cork / education / opinion/analysis Wednesday December 16, 2015 - 18:55 by RebelCityWriters
An article from a young student regarding the impending cuts to student grants in Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / education / event notice Monday April 13, 2015 - 23:57 by wsm
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Yes it is on! The 10th Dublin Anarchist Bookfair which will take place Saturday 25th of April around Smithfield square. Come along and meet anarchists and hundreds of people curious about anarchism. The 10th DABF will take place on the weekend of April 24-6th in the new locations of the Generator the Cobbloestone and Block T around Smithfield square. Saturday will see us host a day of talks and workshops emerging out of a range of struggles and new movements with book and organisation stalls in the Generator. ... read full story / add a comment
international / education / other press Wednesday December 31, 2014 - 19:54 by T
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This is an extremely important story and should be the final wakeup call to the public at large over the real dangers of weedkillers and GM crops. Even though the study applies to the USA, and generally we have GM food labeling, our animal feeds very likely contain significant amounts of GM crops. Also Roundup itself even on ordinary crops is used widespread both in agriculture and in gardens. It is highly likely we are all regularly exposed to residues of this weedkiller, although in all likelihood at the moment this is probably more prevalent in the USA where the situation is a lot worse. However, there are continual efforts all the time to introduce GM crops into Ireland and both FF and FG have given their support to the corporate lobbyists promoting its use. Hopefully news like this just might stop it in its tracks but it won't do anything for the tens of thousands of families already affected by autism ... read full story / add a comment 
international / education / news report Wednesday October 22, 2014 - 22:36 by wsm
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Five years ago, the Irish Anarchist Review replaced Red and Black Revolution as the magazine of the Workers Solidarity Movement. It’s mission was to fill a vacuum in Irish radical circles, to be a publication that raised questions and provoked debate, rather than laying out blueprints for success, as had been the norm in the more theoretical work of the left. It was established at a time where a fightback was believed to be imminent, when the expectation was that as the (economic) beatings continued, morale would improve. ... read full story / add a comment
international / education / other press Monday September 15, 2014 - 22:42 by T
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The tragedy of September 11, 2001, goes far beyond the deaths of those who died in the towers and the deaths of firefighters and first responders who succumbed to illnesses caused by inhalation of toxic dust. For thirteen years a new generation of Americans has been born into the 9/11 myth that has been used to create the American warfare/police state. The corrupt Bush and Obama regimes used 9/11 to kill, maim, dispossess and displace millions of Muslims in seven countries, none of whom had anything whatsoever to do with 9/11. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / education / press release Wednesday June 04, 2014 - 14:49 by Laurence Cox
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Volume six, issue one of Interface, a peer-reviewed online journal produced and refereed by social movement practitioners and engaged movement researchers, is now out. Interface is open-access (free), global and multilingual. Our overall aim is to "learn from each other's struggles": to develop a dialogue between practitioners and researchers, but also between different social movements, intellectual traditions and national or regional contexts. ... read full story / add a comment 
cork / education / news report Wednesday March 12, 2014 - 00:03 by Corkonian
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On midday on Friday 7th March the Institute of Chemical Engineers - and their corporate sponsors, Shell - had organised for an engineer from Shell's Corrib Gas Project to give a talk and workshop for staff and students of the Engineering College at UCC. A cork group formed and mobilsed to attend the lecture, distribute independent information on Corrib and challenge any Shell spin. ... read full story / add a comment
kildare / education / press release Monday December 02, 2013 - 20:52 by Steve
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Below is a statement released by the Maynooth Schools Group this morning. We are having a public meeting tonight (2nd December) to formally commence the campaign to reject the two school model that the Minister and KWETB plan to implement in Maynooth. Indymedia are more than welcome to come along. Our facebook is https://www.facebook.com/MaynoothSchoolsGroup for more information. The Maynooth Schools Group met last night and have reviewed all that has happened to date regarding the new school in Maynooth. We have decided that we completely and formally reject the proposals of the Minister for Education and Skills, Mr Ruairi Quinn and the KWETB's plans of implementation to build two fully vertical and separate schools on the same site in our town. ... read full story / add a comment
limerick / education / event notice Tuesday April 16, 2013 - 15:02 by Latin America Solidarity Centre
Saturday 20th April - Venue: TEACH FAILTE - University of Limerick Campus ... read full story / add a comment
international / education / press release Monday March 25, 2013 - 07:08 by Laurence Cox
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A course for movement practitioners and community educators who want to deepen their own practice ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / education / event notice Thursday January 24, 2013 - 20:26 by Gareth Stack
Free Learning Festival in Dubzland Venue (in Seomra Spraoi.), February 25th - March 2nd. We're offering a tonne of free workshops and lectures, and we'd like you to be involved, either as a participant, volunteer or in running a workshop or talk. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / education / event notice Friday September 07, 2012 - 00:33 by Conor McCabe
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This talk till try to throw a light on the dynamics of the IFSC, in particular the shadow banking system of which the IFSC is a hub, and will discuss the nature of Ireland’s ‘middleman’ capitalism whi ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / education / event notice Tuesday May 29, 2012 - 16:24 by LASC
Brazilian Portuguese and Latin American Spanish courses at LASC. Summer 2012 ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / education / press release Thursday January 12, 2012 - 17:28 by Gregor Kerr
Thousands of parents and teachers from disadvantaged schools to protest at Department of Education and Skills against staffing cuts Campaigners against staffing cuts to DEIS schools have said that the Review ordered by Minister Quinn is a move in the right direction but not enough and that the cuts must be completely reversed. Teachers and parents from Dublin DEIS schools have announced that they are to continue with their plans for a major protest outside the Department of Education and Skills, Marlborough St., Dublin 1 on Thursday 19th January from 3:30p.m. ... read full story / add a comment
national / education / news report Thursday December 15, 2011 - 11:15 by Pól Ó Cionsalígh
One of the most disgusting and sick cuts in the Budget is the cuts to disadvantaged schools :-(
Minister for Education Ruairi Quinn has told the principals of disadvantaged Primary schools that the government will press ahead with plans to cut hundreds of teaching posts in their schools. Absolutely appalling! ... read full story / add a comment 
national / education / event notice Thursday November 10, 2011 - 10:58 by FEE - Free education for everyone
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The USI have planned to march on the Dail in opposition to possible hikes in third level fee's. The campaign group Free Education for Everyone (FEE) believes that the USI should go further however & calls for the immediate retraction of increases in the reg fee & cuts to the non-adjacent grant.
Education is a right not a privilege ... read full story / add a comment
international / education / other press Thursday October 06, 2011 - 15:51 by opus diablos
This extract gives an update on the current state of play, and a little background, from the yankee 'backyard' of Latin America. It indicates there are lessons for our predicament that our betters would prefer we didn't learn. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / education / event notice Friday July 01, 2011 - 15:01 by LASC
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