Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 20 January 2016

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion

1:45 pm

Photo of Marie Louise O'DonnellMarie Louise O'Donnell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

It is a cop out to say that it cannot be assessed and that we cannot stand up and say "In this institution or university, this is how we value great teachers, and this is what we think a good, quality or inspiring teacher is." We skirt around all that with, as Dr. Foley says, these little Spar shops or hubs called teaching and learning units. Another thing Dr. Foley said about himself was that he was not a teacher, yet he is an associate dean for teaching and learning. So he is a teacher, because he-----

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