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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2021)
Paul Kehoe: The Deputy is okay for time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2021)
Paul Kehoe: Senator O'Loughlin.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2021)
Paul Kehoe: I will pick up on some points made but I will not ask Ms Tansey to comment. I will then ask some questions. Like many Members of both Houses, I feel that it all sounds very good but there is a huge amount of evidence throughout the country that the HSE counselling service is not working. There are waiting lists of long durations. At any politician's clinic there are horrifying stories of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2021)
Paul Kehoe: We will reconvene. To confirm, can Mr. Tattan hear us?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2021)
Paul Kehoe: You are back again. That is perfect. Could you hear the questions I asked you?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2021)
Paul Kehoe: There were two questions, one on foreign languages and the other on the Irish language.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2021)
Paul Kehoe: Will there be additional new subjects in the proposed new specifications being reviewed other than physical education and computers? If so, could the officials specify what they are and perhaps outline the proposed curriculum for them?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2021)
Paul Kehoe: When will the officials be in a position to outline that proposal in more detail in the open?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2021)
Paul Kehoe: In the same vein, attracting females into STEM areas continues to be a significant challenge. During a recent trip by the committee to Munster Technological University, Professor Maggie Cusack made a very important point that STEM learning starts at primary and then secondary level. There is a significant issue regarding females participating in STEM subjects. What measures are in place and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2021)
Paul Kehoe: In terms of mental health and well-being, are there any proposals to incorporate well-being into the senior cycle as an integrated part of it? Could well-being assignments be incorporated into the final results so that it encourages students to engage fully? Since I became Chairman of this committee, we have dealt with the effects of Covid and bullying in school. I have listened to all of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2021)
Paul Kehoe: Could Ms Tansey arrange for that leaflet to be sent to members of the committee?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2021)
Paul Kehoe: I would point to proof and evidence that is relayed to me a politician. I am not saying it comes down to the Department of Education. There is a great deal of joined-up thinking. I believe there are way too many organisations involved and the message gets lost. That is my opinion, not the opinion of the committee. Mental health is a big issue. It came through clearly in the other...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2021)
Paul Kehoe: Yes, go ahead.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2021)
Paul Kehoe: I thank Senator Dolan. That concludes part one of the meeting. I want to put the officials in the Department of Education on notice that they will be asked to come back before the committee again. Owing to the weather conditions, four or five members have been unable to attend as they come from counties under red status. It was agreed last night that the meeting would proceed even though...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2021)
Paul Kehoe: She is. In fairness, she was very good and she complimented the Department. She said she did a report 30 years ago. I know there is an appetite for leaving certificate reform. We have learned a great deal about it in the last two years because of the Covid pandemic, which gave the Department, the Minister and everybody else the shot in the arm they needed to introduce some real reform of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2021)
Paul Kehoe: On behalf of the committee, I welcome Mr. Ryan Sharpe, a sixth-year student in the Cork Life Centre, Ms Amber Sheridan O'Callaghan, a past student of the centre, and Mr. Hugh Ahern, a student at the Patrician Academy, Mallow, County Cork. Mr. Ahern has appeared before the committee previously. The witnesses are here today to discuss leaving certificate reform with the committee. The format...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2021)
Paul Kehoe: I thank Mr. Sharpe and Ms Sheridan O'Callaghan. I now invite Mr. Ahern to speak.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2021)
Paul Kehoe: I thank Mr. Ahearn for that. Ms Sheridan O'Callaghan spoke about the stresses of the leaving certificate and how she has come through them. We have spoken about emotional counsellors in schools to help students. We spoke about this earlier with departmental officials. How would Ms Sheridan O'Callaghan flesh out the real stress of the leaving certificate? What was the biggest issue for her?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2021)
Paul Kehoe: Mr. Sharpe is studying for the leaving certificate. I visited Cork Life Centre two weeks ago and therefore know exactly about the fantastic work being done there. What are the main stresses for Mr. Sharpe as he is preparing for his examinations? I said to Department officials this morning that I have fought five general elections. A general election is very stressful but I found the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2021)
Paul Kehoe: I have been trying to draw a string out on the reform of teaching of some of the subjects with some of the witnesses who have come before the committee over the past while. Some people will agree with Mr. Ahern and more will not but I am a big believer in continuous assessment. I would like it to have been in place when I did my leaving certificate many years ago. Mr. Ahern was right when...