Results 1,001-1,020 of 6,354 for speaker:Carol Nolan

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Participation (9 May 2017)

Carol Nolan: 168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the access initiatives currently in operation by third level institutions; the number of participants on each; the annual expenditure on each; the number of staff employed in each institution for the purposes of promoting or implementing access initiatives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21399/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Employment Initiative (9 May 2017)

Carol Nolan: 169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount drawn down by his Department each year since 2014 and to date in 2017 under the youth employment initiative; the programmes and initiatives funded in whole or in part with these moneys; the number of participants on each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21400/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (9 May 2017)

Carol Nolan: 170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason eligibility for a student grant is based on gross income rather than net income; his plans to change this criteria. [21401/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Retention Rates (9 May 2017)

Carol Nolan: 171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address the high levels of non-progression in some courses in institutes of technology; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21402/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (9 May 2017)

Carol Nolan: 172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the final numbers of schools that have appealed their allocation under the new resource allocation model; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21403/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (9 May 2017)

Carol Nolan: 173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeframe for the implementation of pay equality for teachers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21404/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Early Childhood Care and Education (9 May 2017)

Carol Nolan: 174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of early child care and education scheme, ECCE, programmes that are implementing the Aistear and Síolta curriculum; the mechanisms in place to evaluate the educational outcomes for children under the ECCE scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21405/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (9 May 2017)

Carol Nolan: 175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of places in autism units that will be available in the 2017 - 2018 school year; the number of new autism units that will be established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21406/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (9 May 2017)

Carol Nolan: 176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to reduce school costs specifically in relation to the proposal of a premium capitation payment to schools; the amount of the premium to be paid to schools; his plans to monitor the implementation of this proposal; when his Department circular will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21407/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Psychological Assessments (9 May 2017)

Carol Nolan: 177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 130 of 2 February 2017, when a response will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21410/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Funding (9 May 2017)

Carol Nolan: 178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the value of additional funding received by universities or other third level institutions for the purposes of improving access, including premium level of funding for target students; the institutions in receipt of such funding; the amount received by each institution over the past five years and to date in 2017; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Data (9 May 2017)

Carol Nolan: 180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the mechanisms in place to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of access initiatives at third level; if guidelines in relation to best practice have been circulated among institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21414/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Data (9 May 2017)

Carol Nolan: 181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of current DEIS schools that would not have met his Department's new criteria for inclusion in the programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21415/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Administration (9 May 2017)

Carol Nolan: 182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in identifying schools to be included in DEIS, each school was given a grade or numerical measure in terms of deprivation according to indicators; the difference in this measure between the lowest new school added to DEIS and the highest school not added to the DEIS programme; if all schools were assessed according to deprivation...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (9 May 2017)

Carol Nolan: 183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to support disadvantaged children in schools not under the DEIS programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21417/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (9 May 2017)

Carol Nolan: 184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the work being done to develop the model of the identification of future complex needs; when the model will be developed and finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21418/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Area Based Childhood Programme (9 May 2017)

Carol Nolan: 658. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the preparing for life programme; her plans to extend it further; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21408/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (9 May 2017)

Carol Nolan: 659. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of staff who have been employed under the school completion programme over each of the past ten years and to date in 2017; the number of participants in the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21409/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (9 May 2017)

Carol Nolan: 660. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if guidelines have been produced by her Department in respect of the operation of the school completion programme; if the programme is co-ordinated on a national basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21411/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Review of Skills and Apprenticeship Schemes: Discussion (16 May 2017)

Carol Nolan: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. Apprenticeships are definitely undervalued in our education system and there is a culture that we badly need to change. I say that as somebody who has visited Dublin Institute of Technology, DIT, and the National Skills Competition, and seen at first hand the high calibre of talent there. We have a skills gap and we need a change of culture....