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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes, if Ms Feeney could. My colleague, Deputy Ó Laoghaire, referred earlier to construction studies and what is needed there and the workforce that we need there. How hard is it then to roll out a practical subject such as construction studies?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Has any work been done in regard to aligning the assignment and releasing the results with the A-levels in the North through our work on the increasing cross-Border enrolment in further and higher education? We have repeatedly come across challenges in relation to the examinations, the grades and the timing of results. These have been substantial barriers and they have come across time and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: In terms of North-South, it is a real barrier there in terms of the timings of things being resolved. Has the SEC really examined that and how we can have an all-island approach to creating the opportunities across the island?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Is that something the SEC will look at again?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: That will be soon.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I will address the issue of critical thinking. I have looked at the Oxford report, cited in several areas around the assessment of higher order thinking, which recommended that the curriculum be narrowed. How can students do seven subjects in any depth, and allow time and space for critical thinking, when we are trying to assess so many subjects? How do we have more critical thinking and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Are the representatives satisfied that the marking system reflects the critical thinking that is necessary?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I wish all the students today who are doing their practical day in engineering the best of luck, including my own son who has his 19th birthday today as well. What a way to spend your birthday, doing the practical subject.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Okay. Can Ms Feeney see an alignment of the results being released throughout the island in future?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I know.
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (26 Apr 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: 1082. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if recipients of invalidity pensions are required to go on partial capacity benefit in order to take up a PhD; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20882/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (26 Apr 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: 1083. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if disabled PhD students lose eligibility to the fuel allowance and other means tested secondary supports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20909/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (26 Apr 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: 1084. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the manner in which academic scholarships for undergraduate or masters level impact on invalidity, pension and secondary supports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20910/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (26 Apr 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: 1085. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way that income from compulsory work as part of a PhD such as grading papers, teaching support and so on will affect disability support payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20911/22]