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21 Feb 2008
Hanafin anger over Dáil ‘trap’
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on soapboxireland.blogspot.com
AN extraordinary war of words erupted between Mary Hanafin and Fine Gael last night as the Education Minister accused opponents of laying a Dáil trap for her. Under fire over her department’s treatment of pupils with autism, …... Continue reading »
19 Feb 2008
Autistic boy's mother in persecution claim
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on hse-ireland.blogspot.com
Ms Ui Cuanachain accused the Department of Education of being “cynically misrepresentative” and of not supporting ABA and criticised Education Minister Mary Hanafin's stance. “Well I would reject the Minister's position quite completely …... Continue reading »
13 Feb 2008
Minister launches state-of-the-art new buildings
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on carlow-nationalist.ie
THE NEW state-of the-art extension in the Presentation College in Askea was officially opened on Friday morning by the Education Minister Mary Hanafin.... Continue reading »
Special Need Education in Ireland
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on joedrumgoole.com/blog
I see Mary Hanafin is defending the current and by implication previous governments disgraceful role in special needs education in ireland. Always the big numbers are tossed out casually, 900m on special needs. …... Continue reading »
12 Feb 2008
Sunday Times: Abolishing the CAO points system
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on kathyfoley.wordpress.com
This followed pressure on the universities from Mary Hanafin, the minister for education. From 2009 on, Leaving Cert results will be combined with aptitude tests in order to find the most suitable candidates for medical training. …... Continue reading »
09 Feb 2008
A National Strategy for Higher Education?
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on cearta.ie
Minister for Education Mary Hanafin hopes a final report charting a course forward for the sector will be available within 18 months. Senior officials from the department and the HEA are working on the document. …... Continue reading »
02 Feb 2008
One Lap top per child
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on jessjahart.wordpress.com
Fine Gael defends the cost of the lap tops saying that they need to be the price of $188 figuring in the “substantial costs for items, such as insurance, maintenance and networking”, but Mary Hanafin believes that the lap tops are not …... Continue reading »
01 Feb 2008
Mary Hanafin Announces School Sites For Greystones
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on greystoneset.ie
The Department of Education has announced today that two eight-classroom temporary sites have been confirmed for Greystones. The application for one of those sites to become an Educate Together school was made yesterday and the DES will …... Continue reading »
28 Jan 2008
Today is Data Protection Day
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on bhconsulting.blogs365.org/wordpress
In Ireland the Minister for Education and Science Mary Hanafin in association with the Data Protection Commissioner launched a new educational resource on data protection and privacy aimed at second level schools. …... Continue reading »
27 Jan 2008
Doomed, all of us, and no (grammatical) hope in sight
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on cavantucky.blogspot.com
Disibility. Oh, God…oh God. End my pain. The plague has reached the highest levels, people. Will we sit and do nothing? Or will Mary Hanafin don a heroine's cape for us at last, and RETURN GRAMMAR LESSONS TO IRISH CLASSROOMS? …... Continue reading »
25 Jan 2008
Minister Hanafin addresses Government Leaders Forum in Berlin
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on microsoftireland.spaces.live.com
Berlin: January 23rd, 2008 - The Minister for Education and Science Mary Hanafin TD, today delivered a keynote address to the 2008 Government Leaders Forum, taking place in Berlin, Germany today. The Forum, being hosted by Microsoft and …... Continue reading »
24 Jan 2008
Computers? Schools? Government? Really?
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on bigsc.blogspot.com
Was reading this morning that Mary Hanafin, the all knowledgeable runner of schools in Ireland stated that having computers in schools helps prevent kids from dropping out. She was also talking about some crap package of €252m to be …... Continue reading »
20 Jan 2008
Hanafin fails to deliver on psych staff
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on hse-ireland.blogspot.com
Education Minister Mary Hanafin promised exactly a year ago that NEPS staff numbers would rise to 158 psychologists by the end of the year. But in the week when the country’s 4000 schools closed for Christmas, NEPS had just 138 …... Continue reading »
Let's skip class… Mary shows how it's done
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on independent.ie/national-news
EDUCATION Minister Mary Hanafin urged schools to get fit yesterday at the launch of the Active School Awards competition — a nationwide initiative which aims to raise the awareness of the value of PE, physical activity and school …... Continue reading »
18 Jan 2008
Mary Hanafin
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on ourdailministers.blogspot.com
These randomers in the photo above just don't want to be there - you can just fucking tell. They are all holding this brown book looking 'deadly', except that guy on the very right who probably ate his. And the bloke second from left is …... Continue reading »
Ministers Visit for Official Opening
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on knocklyoncs.blogspot.com
We were most fortunate that Minister Mary Hanafin took a personal interest in this project (she was previously a TY co-ordinator herself) and through the DES a very substantial grant was approved. However this initiative would have not …... Continue reading »
15 Jan 2008
in politics timing is everything
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on taggingtech.typepad.com/blog
on new year's day the into, the union representing ireland's primary school teachers, came out and blasted education minister mary hanafin for her record on investing in technology for schools. in a statement general secreatry john carr …... Continue reading »
10 Jan 2008
Daft idea #3455 - Giving Every Irish child a laptop
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on sliabh.net
The Education minister, Mary Hanafin, a person I don’t have much time for, was quick to slap Fine Gael down. She came back with an estimated cost of €167m, a number that sounds much more realistic. That is a figure that I would believe …... Continue reading »
09 Jan 2008
Are We There Yet?
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on pedablogy.com
The real issue is why Mary Hanafin does not get at least the 6.1% GDP funding for education from government (€billions extra!!). This would help across all the issues, water, class size, capitation, remuneration - etc. …... Continue reading »
06 Jan 2008
School Principals of Ireland time to tell the Government where to …
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on briangreene.com/bhg
A metered system will then be introduced and schools will have to pay the full cost for water use. The Government claims it is a necessary part of the EU legislation and Minister Mary Hanafin says our schools have to meet EU water …... Continue reading »
24 Dec 2007
Major upgrade of Irish studies at UCD
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on medievalnews.blogspot.com
Earlier this year, Minister for Education Mary Hanafin contacted Dr Brady to voice her concern about changes to the status of Old Irish at UCD, which also drew an angry reaction from a wide range of distinguished Irish and international …... Continue reading »
18 Dec 2007
Schools turn to second Minister in water row
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on independent.ie
PRIMARY schools have pleaded with the Environment Minister to intervene after their protests about annual water charges of up to €10000 were rejected by Mary Hanafin and the Taoiseach.... Continue reading »
15 Dec 2007
Educating Church and State
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on sluggerotoole.com
The Republic of Ireland’s Education Minister, Mary Hanafin, has announced her intention to amend legislation for the pilot introduction of a new inter-denominational model for primary schools. As the RTÉ report notes -”The current …... Continue reading »
27 Nov 2007
The changes in the Leaving Certificate exam Timetable
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on theangryhedgehog.com
Minister Mary Hanafin (TD), has decided after listening to the responses from students from the last Leaving Certificate exam, to change the timetable for the first three days. English, Maths & Irish will now be spread over the whole …... Continue reading »
20 Nov 2007
Educate Together Greystones
An article about Mary Hanafin seen on gingerpixel.com
Jessica will be on RTE radio today at 1pm, and if you have the inclination to do something yourself, how about writing a letter to Mary Hanafin, our minister of education? You can find a letter to send to her here. …... Continue reading »