Results 9,561-9,580 of 19,601 for speaker:Norma Foley
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)
Norma Foley: There is a clear teacher supply action plan within the Department. That plan involves engagement with a variety of partners and educational stakeholders, not least in respect of demand and supply. The higher education institutions, HEIs, are involved in that action plan. We take great confidence from the fact that, via the CAO, insofar as teaching is a first option, we have seen an...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)
Norma Foley: One of the key factors in senior cycle reform has come from extensive engagement with many partners in education and specific voices in education, most especially those of students themselves, and they have been clear about the need to spread the assessment load. They have been very articulate in that respect. Equally, many of the senior cycle programmes, such as the leaving certificate...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)
Norma Foley: We have an ambitious programme of reform that, as I said, is centred on student well-being. In the main, anybody looking at this will say affording students an opportunity to spread the assessment load over two years will benefit them. As I said, this is already embedded in the leaving certificate applied and it is very much an opportunity for students to avoid feeling all of the burden of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)
Norma Foley: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)
Norma Foley: This scheme involves a significant investment and will benefit more than 540,000 students. The scheme will take a burden away from parents and guardians. It also will ensure that no student is limited by an absence of textbooks. We have between now and next September to work this through this scheme. It was always my preference that the scheme would be introduced in schools and worked...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)
Norma Foley: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)
Norma Foley: Yes, there will be every opportunity. The system that will be introduced will be on the back of significant engagement with stakeholders such as schools, parents, publishers and retailers, so everyone within that space. That engagement will begin immediately.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)
Norma Foley: Indeed, there is. We are seeing significant supports being made available to promote the Irish language. Is the Deputy specifically referring to paper 1 being moved?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)
Norma Foley: There is a comprehensive policy being worked on in terms of a strategy for teaching Irish in schools outside of Gaeltachts. This will complement the teaching of the Irish language, and how it is being provided for within the Gaeltachts. There is a substantial body of work being done there. On the question of how does the senior cycle fit into the general strategy, as I have said...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)
Norma Foley: There is a public consultation stream that will come on stream in the next three or four weeks.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)
Norma Foley: There is already a body of work under way.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)
Norma Foley: On the whole Gaeltacht policy, yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)
Norma Foley: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)
Norma Foley: The life centre requested some clarifications about what was published originally. The Department was happy to take on board the clarifications that the centre requested and they have subsequently been published.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)
Norma Foley: Yes. It is my understanding that the clarifications sought were catered for.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)
Norma Foley: The review of the out-of-school education provision was a review of all of the centres and was not unique to the Cork Life Centre. I have met representatives from the Cork Life Centre and I have also taken the opportunity to meet the parents and guardians, the staff and the students. I acknowledge the excellent ongoing work that takes place at the centre. There are other centres as well....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)
Norma Foley: The issue is that centres operate differently. There is no unanimity and no singular overall policy regarding these centres.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)
Norma Foley: No, there are different circumstances.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)
Norma Foley: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)
Norma Foley: Yes. It is 6,000 co-operation hours.