Kosovo and the Educational Disadvantage Centre

The Educational Disadvantage Centre at St Patrick’s College is engaged in a two year EU Tempus Project to develop a Masters programme for the Psychology Department of the University of Prishtina, Kosovo.  As part of this project, the EDC Director, Dr. Paul Downes, taught an intensive week long course on Psychoanalysis to 20 Masters students of Psychology in the University of Prishtina from June 1-6.

The project has gathered a consortium of five European universities to assist the Psychology department of the University of Prishtina in the development of a new post-graduate curriculum and in the training of its staff members.  The Educational Disadvantage Centre will also be assisting with the design of the Educational Psychology Strand of the Masters Curriculum.

The consortium is headed by the Division of Psychology of the University of Bedfordshire, UK, and includes the Department of Education and Psychology of the University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic, the Department of Psychology of the University of Prishtina, Kosovo, the Psychology department of the Catholic University, Milan, Italy, the Psychotherapy Department of the Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology of Ludwig-Maximilliens University in Munich, Germany, as well as the Educational Disadvantage Centre, St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra. 

 

 

 

Last Updated: Monday June 29 2009