Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 12 May 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality
Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed)
Ms Saoirse Exton:
The biggest thing many students are feeling is that education is not currently designed for students. Part of that is because students have pretty much never been involved in the designing process. The Senator talked about culture change. One of the things we tend to forget, when there is so much emphasis on all of these things we need to add to the curriculum, is these should form the basis of the curriculum and everything else, all the other subjects and the exams, should be based around things such as welfare, consent and climate change. It is an integral part of the education system and the fact we have neglected it perhaps shows this microcosm of society is quite reflective of reality.
That is an unfortunate one but it is probably true.
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