Working life links 20th January
A good article on getting your employer to fund your course
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HPAT
Students can now appeal the HPAT test, which is essential for entry into medicine. Heard of students with excellent leaving points but not so good HPAT results are repeating the HPAT this year so this is good news. Maybe they do listen to us bloggers!
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Education
US firm calls for overhaul of Education. This is interesting and reflects what many educationalists feel. Will anything change though?
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Also good on the education front was that RTE series on St Peter’s school Dunboyne. very inspiring. The students were great. Of course they only showed the good teachers and not the minority of poor teachers in every school who drag the staff room and students down.
They were very strict on the school uniform, thought school staff redoing pupil ties had gone out with the ark. Interestingly none of the girls wore trousers, just that icky green & white kilt. Many schools now allow female students to wear trousers, if the school is mixed as one of the Irish equality opportunity bodies found against Bewleys cafe when they made female staff wear that appalling pinafore & hat whilst the lads could wear trousers.
If you missed the show you can also catch it on the RTE website.
College applications
College applications up by 10% with 3 weeks to go
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Also be aware of two new pathways to help school leavers with a disadvantage or a disability to get to college. This is real progress and it is good to see very transparent requirements being put in place.
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Tags: CAO, St Peters Dunboyne