OscailtMA in Community Education, Equality and Social Activism at NUI MaynoothAnother world is possible: learning from each other's struggles
Breaking news: Italian MP, Sgarbi denounces the Statistical Fraud on COVID-19. The speech of the Member of Parliament Vittorio Sgarbi in the session of the Italian Camera, Meeting no. 331 of Friday 24, April, 2020. Vittorio Sgarbi, denounces the closure of 60% of the businesses for 25,000 COVID-19 Deaths, of which the National Institute of Health says 96.3% died NOT of COVID-19 but of other pathologies. That means only 925 have died of the virus. 24,075 have died of other things.2013-04-11T08:26:57+00:00Indymedia Irelandimc-ireland@lists.indymedia.iehttp://www.indymedia.ie/atomfullposts?story_id=103460http://www.indymedia.ie/graphics/feedlogo.gifthis year's flyerhttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/103460#comment2953082013-04-11T08:26:57+00:00Laurence CoxCEESA flyer for this year - please print off and circulate.CEESA flyer for this year - please print off and circulate.Hmmhttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/103460#comment2953802013-04-15T12:30:41+00:00BobbyAcademia reproduces academia. I don't trust any university and I abhor the idea ...Academia reproduces academia. I don't trust any university and I abhor the idea of working-class people getting tied up in a hierarchal and bourgeois institution like a university, no mater how many times you put 'social justice' in the description. <br />
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Maybe I'm wrong though, maybe this course is designed specifically for middle, or upper-class students? In that case, off ye go, more well paid NGO 'leaders' for Ireland, or new professors! <br />
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No to academia, don't even want to hear the argumenthttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/103460#comment2954572013-04-24T14:04:19+00:00ComynBobby
Saddened I read your response because education is a gateway to an improv...Bobby<br />
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Saddened I read your response because education is a gateway to an improved method of living. You gain financially but more importantly it is the intellectual gain that is so important. Indymedia Ireland is about citizen journalism and conjecture suggests that many people who write about current affairs and global interests on this site have most likely engaged in the back to education programmes that were introduced in the 1990's to engage people from underprivileged communities and also people with disabilities to enter education and gain the education options. Trinity, UCD, UCG, UCC, Maynooth and so many more technical colleges which were upgraded in status have resulted in many people now working in our communities gaining education. We need these people to advance the cause of others and promote education and in particular free education. MNC's came to our shores when the assessed our infrastructure, our banking allegiances to both the UK, and Europe, the English language and most importantly our highly educated workforce. Let us not lose sight of these values. It also would suggest that if a Financial Transaction Tax was introduced by a few %, these employers and potential employers would continue to use Ireland as a strategic base.<br />
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Maynooth outline their views. Let them engage and promote back to work schemes in education. On another posting a very important point about FAS/FETAC and education in Ireland was raised by NoMoreAusterity. The need is to identify the WASTE in public service and education and then start streamlining to the needs of the people who are now facing unemployment. Markets are cyclical so let us be aware and prepare now for needs.<br />
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NoMoreAusterity quote:<br />
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'I am certainly not about removing waste. I've often said that FAS can be entirely replaced by a computer server, some programmers from the dole queue and a bulk deal with the open university to supply proper recognised (!!) courses remotely through peoples' computers (as opposed to the unrecognised fetac shit they dish out which require your physical presence'<br />
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Pure common sense.<br />
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Too many of these FETAC courses just don't work. There is one to do with Horticulture. You apply and you are accepted. In the example I am aware of there are mental health issues. What happened - started missing days and then just quit. Where is the cost benefit analysis. The person I know is walking the streets nowkeep the masses ignorant, uneducated and easy to manage, eh bobby?http://www.indymedia.ie/article/103460#comment2954592013-04-25T14:45:49+00:00NoMoreAusterityBobby is a regular troll on this site.
Now he's trying to promote the idiotic m...Bobby is a regular troll on this site.<br />
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Now he's trying to promote the idiotic meme that the masses should be suspicious of education and should not better themselves through learning. Any revolutionary will tell you that this is utter bollocks and one of the first steps for the working classes to improve their lot and understand how the system really works the way it does and learn how to fight it or escape the trap they are in is through education.<br />
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Revolutionary movements often begin in such places of learning. Many of the most famous revolutionaries in history were learned or were prolific "self learners". Learning, academic and otherwise, goes hand in hand with revolutionary movements.<br />
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History especially is important in seeing and understanding the cynical class structure of society, the well worn tactics used to impose it and the well known repeating techniques that we need to anticipate and counter.<br />
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People like bobby ( who serve the elites on internet fora ) are happy for the working classes to know their place, stay ignorant, not educate themselves, and remain subservient to the elites and making money for them through their labour.<br />
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This sounds like a great course to open the eyes of anyone doing it and equip them with the tools to be leaders in their communities. It's interesting that bobby picks this particular course to attack. There are plenty of less relevant nonsense esoterica / paid courses with no proper standards in the world which are often con jobs. But he picks on one that teaches about social activism in the community. <br />
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That's because people like bobby want the working classes to remain ignorant and stay in their place. They don't care about rubbish courses that don't pose a threat to the status quo. Bread and circuses are fine. Real education and learning is a threat.When the pupil is ready the tutor will appearhttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/103460#comment2955262013-04-30T16:20:54+00:00ComynThanks for clarification.
Education is essential for empowerment and social mob...Thanks for clarification.<br />
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Education is essential for empowerment and social mobility. <br />
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Education at third level in the 1990's reached its heights and became free. Many people for the first time were able to avail of it but now this is challenged with the name Fees changed to another name but the amount approaching £3,000 and going upwards.<br />
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It is imperative that the advances made through access to education for people with disabilities, from poor backgrounds, for people who have retired continue to exist. Education is Ireland Inc's stock in trade and it needs to be valued and promoted.<br />
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Community Employment became an avenue for back to education. Shame on those who seek to close it down. Yes, make changes and make people more accountable but don't abolish it.<br />
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Comyn'Museum's to aid Lifelong Teaching'http://www.indymedia.ie/article/103460#comment2955832013-05-04T15:58:56+00:00ComynThe British Museum is linking up with the Open University, 'Futurelearn' which i...The British Museum is linking up with the Open University, 'Futurelearn' which is a consortium of universities that plan to offer courses to the public this summer. We have museums throughout Ireland which are insufficiently attended so here is an opportunity to inspire people to become better education and more involved in their urban communties.<br />
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FAS and FETAC courses have been the source of much criticism on this site and an earlier suggestion to replace FAS courses by facilitating people to link up with the Open University now becomes a real common sense idea.<br />
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Look out for MOOCS (massive open online courses) - which originated last year in the States. The biggest Platform is Coursera which was established by a group of academics at Stanford University in California and which enrolled more than 2 million students in the first 12 months. edX is founded by Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology already has more than 700,000 students. Solus replaces FAS so please let there be some vision for the potential of people, presently unemployed, to embrace this new route to learning.<br />
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Walking past Baggot Street hospital today, I thought the bedraggled lady of two centuries was being attended to at last but No....it is for a film set. Would it not be the right time to make this a medical museum and a place of learning to represent its origins as a teaching hospital? The part of the hospital on Haddington Road is to become the Primary Health Care Centre so this leaves the hospital open to alternativesNear 50% students now get grants as incomes fallhttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/103460#comment2956382013-05-09T16:19:12+00:00BlakeSUSI
Does anyone know or even care if the students did eventually receive the g...SUSI<br />
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Does anyone know or even care if the students did eventually receive the grants they were due, before the exams?<br />
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The media revealed that debt collectors were to be found on certain campuses retrieving monies due and that certain education establishments were stopping students from sitting exams, if fees due due to grants not provided, were outstanding. This is bullying of the worst kind surely and yet nobody talks about it which leaves to conclude that maybe those affected have just sneaked away from that option of third level education and are now on our dole queues.<br />
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However, it is in our best interests as a Nation to promote education in a variety of spheres from the College, to the University but also the capacity that arises within the workplace. We are told that the academic institutions, the government and the relevant agencies are working on improving the workforce through re-skill and conversion programmes for people on the live register. However, we must not forget the potential contribution that can be made by our private-sector employers particular at this time. We need to tap the capabilities of the German system of education and its focus on skill training which runs either as a forerunner to third level education or in its own right as a promoter of industry. Private enterprise employers have a duty also to identiy "talent" and potential.<br />
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According to research commissioned by Accentures<br />
'One third of Irish employers believe that they - and not Government or third level - have primary responsibility for developing their employees' skills.....'<br />
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We need to tap this market for the many unemployed young people urgently.4,000 students seeks 'sugar daddies'http://www.indymedia.ie/article/103460#comment2956512013-05-11T15:55:50+00:00SwiftIs this the answer if the State can't pay?
Read the Independent Friday, if you ...Is this the answer if the State can't pay?<br />
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Read the Independent Friday, if you are interested?<br />
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There is a website and people have no difficulties with the trade off'sSUSIhttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/103460#comment2959062013-05-27T16:09:55+00:00ComynTo those who failed to get the grants or who received them to late, to sit the e...To those who failed to get the grants or who received them to late, to sit the exams, try again. There is less red tape or so the promise goes. Extra staff and the need for fewer documents to process student grants is the outcome of this academic year SUSI disaster. There are always teething problems when you aim to create a centralised applications system.<br />
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May 2013: Report about MOOC courseshttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/103460#comment2963032013-06-19T16:26:22+00:00Comyn'MOOC' Massive Open Online Learning Courses
This is about education in the new ...'MOOC' Massive Open Online Learning Courses<br />
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This is about education in the new dimension - online. The audience is global. The pioneers are those well known elite colleges in the US (Stanford University, Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and others). Now Trinity College Dublin has joined the elites. TCD will 'partner' with Future.Learn.com (founded by the Open University now in existence for 40 years) which is the first UK led multi-institutional provider to offer MOOC courses.<br />
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Future.Learn.com to date has 26 'partnerships' mainly in the UK but what is interesting is that TCD along with Monash, Australia's largest university, are the first two 'international collaborations'. Hopefully this will re-establish Trinity College Dublin in the top 100 leading universities especially since Ireland's universities have slipped out of the top 100 list. It is time to reverse the trend and this is the way forward.<br />
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About content: This online method of education will also include the British libary, the British museum and other museums to share 'content' and 'expertise' which will enrich the development of courses. MOOC is about accessible and free learning. People will have access to leading world academics and life-long learning becomes the real option for all people and is about access to education for all people including people with disabilities. Carnegie, the self-made philantropist, established the libraries, now this is their opportunity to become centres of free online education and access to all people.<br />
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Trinity College Dublin, Provost Dr Patrick Prendergast stated in today's Irish Independent newspaper that "It will widen participation and provide educational opportunities for prospective students and new audiences". It is the way forward to create diversity in unity of education and life-learning impacting on how we live and benefit ourselves and the world.<br />
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As Ireland becomes submerged with mass unemployment particularly affecting our young people, it is essential now to promote education as a source of opportunity and to encourage people to pursue every alternative to prevent unemployment resulting in life-long poor health and survival consequences.<br />
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Literacy is essential particularly the 3 R's. If you want to access online education you need the basics. There are excellent opportunities to learn and if you feel you are not yet ready for the opportunities that MOOC's will offer, check out NALA and other projects that teach the basics.<br />
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ComynThinking about formal application to University: CAOhttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/103460#comment2982832014-01-07T16:19:33+00:00ComynEducation for those leaving school or for those who have returned to education a...Education for those leaving school or for those who have returned to education and prepared for entry, the time is near to complete the CAO applications. Yesterday's Irish Times had most comprehensive details about options, choices, universities and if you are considering returning to College, it well worth getting a copy.<br />
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There is an interesting website called www.defendtheuniversity.ie <br />
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For those considering further education, an alternative view is worth consideration especially if you are asked to interview by the respective universities.<br />
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In fact, Irish Universities are actually in a crisis at present due to the massive under-funding combined with the commercialisation and managerialism. <br />
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You are asked on the website above to sign a set of principles 'to support us in defending third level education in Ireland'.<br />
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The Charter for Action states valid points that merit attention.<br />
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