Ireland’s Yearbook of Education 2018 2019 – Higher Education
Ireland’s Yearbook of Education
2018 2019
HIGHER EDUCATION CHAPTER
Speakers at International Women’s Day Conference in the University of Limerick in March 2018: r-l Marie Connolly, Head of Equality and Diversity, UL; David Wallace, Bank of Ireland; Brid Horan, Steering Committee member, 30% Club.
Overview of Higher Education
By Professor Mark Rogers | Registrar and Deputy President, University College Dublin
To Be A Global University
By Juliette Hussey | Vice-President for Global Relations, Trinity College Dublin & Patrick Prendergast | President and Provost, Trinity College Dublin
The Advent of Technological Universities
Maintaining a diverse, cohesive sector that makes a distinctive contribution to Irish higher education
By Dr Joseph Ryan | CEO, Technological Higher Education Association
The Proposed National Learner Protection Scheme
By Professor Diarmuid Hegarty | President, Griffith College
Thinking For Yourself At University
What it means and how to do it
By Prof Aidan Moran | Professor of Cognitive Psychology and Director of the Psychology Research Laboratory, UCD
Taking the Foreignness Out Of Modern Languages
Language learning in higher education
By Prof Michael Brophy | Professor of French and Francophone Studies, University College Dublin
Turn To Teaching
Diversifying Initial Teacher Education
By Dr Katriona O’Sullivan | Maynooth University & Dr Gareth Burns | Maynooth University
Reviewing Peer Placement in Initial Teacher Education
Cleamhnas, pre-nuptial agreements, and the seven-year itch
By Dr Tríona Stokes | Lecturer in Drama Education, Maynooth University; co-delivers Personal and Professional Skills for Teaching and Learning at Froebel Department of Primary and Early Childhood Education & Dr Ruth Forrest | Lecturer in Research Methods and Personal and Professional Skills for Teaching and Learning at Froebel Department of Primary and Early Childhood Education, Maynooth University
Apprenticeship in Higer Education
Insurance Practitioner, a modern apprenticeship for a diverse industry
By Dr Michael Barrett | Head of Faculty of Business and Social Sciences, Institute of Technology, Sligo
Making Links
Career Development and Employability in Higher Education
By Dr David Foster | Director of Career Development and Skills, and Director, Career Development Centre, University College Dublin
Computational Fluency For Our Future
Steps being taken at Schools of Education
By Dr Cornelia Connolly | Joint Programme Director (Education), Lecturer, and Chair of the Research Committee at the School of Education, NUI Galway
UCD Student Advisers
A Unique Model of Student Support
By Professor Jason Last | UCD Dean of Students & Dr Niamh Nestor, Catriona Keane, Jacqueline Levine, Aisling O’Grady, Kathleen Kiely, Colum Cronin | UCD Student Advisers Communications Working Group