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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: He also said that women were as strong as men.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Which is disgraceful.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is a thing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: What does CPD mean?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The professor was told she had not ticked the boxes?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I presumed that when I asked my question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Which happens in ETBs.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I have not finished my questions. I am sorry I got caught up.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I was interested in what the witnesses said about the transition from second to third level education and how they think that could be better attended to. There seems to be a huge mattress dip there. I am also interested in the area of education and business. There is so much to ask the witnesses and so much to talk about. What would they do differently on the transition from second to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I was suggesting a third level certificate; I was not suggesting a second level certificate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Where have they gone?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: We will continue, because some of them are very good and will have their own questions. We do not track students regarding the quality of teaching they receive. One way to discover whether they are well taught is to ask them whether they were well taught, and in what way were they well taught - not who taught well or who taught badly, but how did the fact of being well taught find its...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Yes, of course, and it moves on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: But it seems to me that Dr. Foley, in his paper, does not come down on the side of what is good teaching or excellence in teaching and that he says it cannot be this, that or the other. I completely disagree with him because when he told us about his youth he remembered teachers who absolutely inspired him with a piece of chalk or an overhead projector. I believe that there are such things...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is a cop out to say that it cannot be assessed and that we cannot stand up and say "In this institution or university, this is how we value great teachers, and this is what we think a good, quality or inspiring teacher is." We skirt around all that with, as Dr. Foley says, these little Spar shops or hubs called teaching and learning units. Another thing Dr. Foley said about himself was...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Dr. Foley is perhaps being a bit disingenuous to himself.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is not. Every subject-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I know. We do not want a bust-up conversation between Dr. Foley and myself because we could have that any time. It is not hard to measure learning. It will depend on the subject and the area, such as the humanities versus the sciences, and there are different ways of assessing many things. I disagree with Dr. Foley. It is another cop-out. It is another lowering of standards, because...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank the Chairman. I have been a member of the committee for three or four years and this has been one of the most provocative half hours I have experienced in a long time. I do not know where to start. This matter is close to my heart because I have spent a great deal of my life as a teacher at third level. I was considered a pariah at one point. I recall a director of education in...
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: On Friday night I had the privilege of being invited by the Lions Club to its annual dinner for the homeless which, quite rightly in view of what people died for there, was held in the GPO. I was there with Alice Leahy of Trust. I want to repeat something I said here three and a half to four years ago. When I left the GPO at approximately 9.30 p.m. and walked through O'Connell Street, it...