Strategies for System Level Reform

Dr Paul Downes, Director of the Educational Disadvantage Centre, St Patrick’s College, was an invited speaker at the National Education Welfare Board (NEWB) seminar, Mapping the landscape, at the Hilton Hotel, Kilmainham, on March 23rd. The seminar’s key objective is to inform national strategic planning for integrated services across the NEWB, National School Completion Programme, Home-School-Community Liaison Scheme and Visiting Teachers Service for Travellers. In his presentation, Needs, policies and practice for system level intervention: Key issues for the next era in moving beyond educational disadvantage, Dr Downes presented research findings from a range of reports from the Educational Disadvantage Centre to inform future national strategic policy making of the NEWB. Other invited speakers were, Dr Peter Archer, Director of the Educational Research Centre, and Dr Emer Smyth and Dr Selina McCoy of the ESRI.

 

 

 

 

Last Updated: Tuesday March 30 2010