Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 5 April 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Pádraig O'SullivanPádraig O'Sullivan (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We might keep Senator O'Loughlin in the Chair for future weeks. My background is that I was involved in education for 15 years, and even in my time would could see on the ground how the prevalence of students dealing with issues such as anxiety, and the increasing levels of students receiving a diagnosis of ASD or ADHD, and so on. I have said before that as a teacher I had never really felt adequately trained to deal with a lot of the issues that presented themselves to us as a teaching staff.

I wish to pick up on one point that Dr. Duffy and Ms Murphy mentioned, which is around embedding resilience in the curricula in higher education institutions. Reference was made to the practice being particularly ad hoc. Will the witnesses please define for the committee what they mean by embedding? Is it similar to implementing a well-being module at second or third level? Perhaps the witnesses could expand on that.

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