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Direct linkGavan Sheridan – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2023
This is a critical reflection upon the Quality and Qualifications Ireland (2018) guidelines on blended learning from the perspective of a Further Education and Training practitioner. The purpose of the guidelines is set out and it is suggested that there is much to be welcomed here. The contested meaning of the term blended learning is explored…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Qualifications, Quality Assurance
Nuala Glanton – Irish Educational Studies, 2023
Ten years on from the formation of SOLAS (An tSeirbhís Oideachais Leanúnaig agus Scileanna) and the Education and Training Boards (ETBs) in Ireland, it is appropriate to reflect on where adult education lies in the new Further Education and Training (FET) sector. This paper uses Denis O'Sullivan's schematisation of policy paradigms (2005) as an…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Neoliberalism, Educational Policy, Models
Evans, Stephen – Learning and Work Institute, 2021
The Skills for Jobs White Paper and funding and accountability consultation set out the Government's plans to introduce a greater focus on the outcomes of learning, including a new Skills Measure that looks at the employment and other outcomes that learners achieve. Will this give colleges and providers greater freedom to deliver for learners, or…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Accountability, Outcomes of Education, Employment
A Contested Profession: Employability, Performativity and Professionalism in Irish Further Education
Grummell, Bernie; Murray, Michael J. – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2015
Further education typically represents the vocational, technical and practice-based forms of education, but this is now being repositioned in a neo-liberal era that is driving a performance-based and market-orientated vision of education in the Republic of Ireland and elsewhere. The implacable drive of neo-liberal economics in everyday practice is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Employment Potential, Neoliberalism
Keogh, John J.; Maguire, Theresa; O'Donoghue, John – Adults Learning Mathematics, 2014
Recent research undertaken by the authors (Keogh, 2013; Keogh, Maguire, & O'Donoghue, 2010, 2011, 2012), identified the mathematics activity that underpinned what may be regarded as low-skilled, low paid jobs, and aligned it with the National Framework of Qualifications in Ireland. In the course of this research, it emerged that although the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics, Employment, National Surveys
Jones, Marion – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2009
This article is located within the wider European context of teacher development and is specifically concerned with the needs of those supporting novice teachers during the early stages in their professional career. Currently, induction systems across Europe are largely fragmented, locally based and with little transference of best practice. There…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mentors, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Orientation
