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- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I join in the words of sympathy for the late Christy O'Connor Jnr. In a nutshell, he lit up every room he came into and that was widely felt at his funeral yesterday in Galway. I support the call for a debate on the health impacts of excessive sugar consumption. That was quite a documentary broadcast this week by RTE. There must be legislative solutions in this regard. As we have said...
- Seanad: Flooding: Statements (20 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister of State is very welcome. I also commend him on his prompt response on the ground. On 27 December, two days after Christmas, I had to text him about a very urgent situation in Labane in Galway, just south of my home, where a woman feared for her life as the floods were rising. She also had depression, which made the situation worse. My purpose in standing here today is to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I apologise for being late. I had to speak on flooding in the Seanad. Those present will be aware that half the country is under water. I welcome the witnesses. I used to be a lecturer at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick. I congratulate Senator O'Donnell, who is a former lecturer of mine, for putting this issue on the agenda. I am sorry that I missed the witnesses' exposés on...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: What impact is the investment in the national forum having? It is a relatively new development in higher level education. We had a good conference last year in NUIG on reforming third level education and the issues that need to be addressed are languages, which has been mentioned, career guidance-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Chairman, I will finish on this sentence. The issues that are of real concerns are languages, career guidance, attrition levels, apprenticeships and the casualisation of posts. What can we do to help third level education?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: May I respond to that issue?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I would like to hear the response to the questions I put. Also, I will say something about the subject of Mandarin. I am involved with 20 schools in Galway where Mandarin Chinese is taught and I bring in two teachers from China each year via University College Cork.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: We began this initiative as a result of the recession and it is going very well. However, it operates completely from the bottom up in the sense that the teachers come to me free and the schools then fund the accommodation, which is just €25 per week. It is a very good initiative. I started it because the former Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Ruairí Quinn, said that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: And they lose so many kids in the process.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I understand the issue of the STEM subjects, but I am talking about the humanities, the liberal arts, and the teacher education, where there are hundreds and hundreds of students starting each year. Do we know if every lecturer, even now, is meeting their students one-on-one once in a term, semester or year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: At third level as well?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I know that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I have an answer. It must be a requirement that there is at least one meeting. There should be credit for attending that meeting. We have to incentivise it. It must be a carrot-and-stick approach. I know the students who are dropping out and they are largely boys. There must be a requirement-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: No. There must be a requirement for one meeting at a minimum. I know some students will be in contact with a lecturer for ever.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: If the lecturer takes the mentoring approach, he or she will be able to read the person. Not everything is foolproof.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is a point of contact. I am well aware that there are those who do not show up for meetings.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am suggesting a credit for the personal meeting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Through the Chair, all I am saying is sometimes we are trying to save some of our children from themselves. It is in the context of the overall person.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: We can give a credit. One can get credit for attendance in some institutions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That can be built in; we can find a positive way. We could ask Professor Sarah Moore's group to examine that matter.