Oireachtas Expert Advisory Group for Education and Skills

 

Members of the Expert Advisory Group to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Science.

Staying in Education: A New Way Forward

The report of the Joint Committee in Education and Skills on Early School Leaving was launched at Leinster House on Tuesday 25 May 2010. Entitled Staying in Education: A New Way Forward - School and Out-Of-School Factors Protecting Against Early School Leaving, the report identifies the reasons behind early school leaving and offers solutions. The report was produced by Senator Fidelma Healy-Eames on behalf of the Committee with assistance from Dr Jude Cosgrove of the Educational Research Centre. Launching the report, Paul Gogarty, TD, Chairman of the Joint Committee, described it as a timely and important contribution in an area of fundamental importance. He congratulated the ERC and the College on its contribution and on its initiatives in the area of access and disadvantage. The members of the expert group which assisted in the preparation of the report included Dr Peter Archer, Dr Paul Downes, Dr Ann Louise Gilligan, and Dr Jude Cosgrove.

John Walshe's article in the Irish Independent on Monday 31st May 2010 can be accessed here

 

Expert Advisory Group for Education and Skills

On February 24th, Dr. Ann Louise Gilligan, founder and former Director of the Educational Disadvantage Centre (EDC), and Dr. Paul Downes, the current EDC Director in the college, attended the first meeting of the Expert Advisory Group on Educational Disadvantage to the Joint Oireachtas Committee for Education and Skills in Dáil Éireann.

Other members of the Advisory Group consist of a range of representatives from organisations and schools across the country, including Dr. Peter Archer, Head of the Education Research Centre (ERC), Aidan Savage, Chair of the National School Completion Programme, John Lonergan, Governor of Mountjoy Prison, Emer Smyth and Delma Byrne of the ESRI, and Dermot Stokes, Director of Youthreach. Senator Fidelma Healy Eames has convened the group on behalf of the Joint Oireachtas Committee for Education and Skills, with Jude Cosgrove from the ERC assisting with the research.

               

 

Last Updated: Friday August 05 2011