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OPEN EVENT – THE EXECUTIVE INSTITUTE: BACK TO SCHOOL & LIVING WITH COVID-19 – MANAGING THE YEAR AHEAD

Schools all over Ireland are reopening this week.  It’s a really anxious time for parents and children as there has been a lot of uncertainty about when and how schools will cope with the new academic year.   The 2020-21 school environment will be very different from what it looked like before the lockdown.  School schedules,…

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Richard Hogan offers advice to parents on what to say to children who have missed out on their desired college courses.

Monday brought with it the end to one of the most pressing and agonizing questions that students from all over Ireland have been grappling with since the leaving cert results arrived; have I received enough points to secure a place in University? For many students last week was excruciatingly long and unfortunately ultimately punctuated with bitter…

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We have to look at the points system and question the impact it is having on our children

Thomas Kinsella has a wonderful poem called, ‘Model School Inchicore.’ In the poem Kinsella explores the notion that the old traditional educational system of Ireland shrank creativity rather than promoted it, writes Richard Hogan. The opening line is the longest in the poem and the final line is the shortest, representing the reductionist impact our…

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