Showing posts with label Irish education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Irish education. Show all posts
Thursday, November 5, 2015

5/11/15: Times Higher Education Rankings of Irish Universities: 2016

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Times Higher Education rankings of universities are out and the bad news is that Irish universities are doing poorly as a group and more...
Tuesday, November 4, 2014

4/11/2014: Prosperity Index 2014: Ireland's Reforms Failing to Produce Strong Socio-Economic Results

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Today, Prosperity.com ( http://www.prosperity.com/#!/ ) are publishing the 2014 Legatum Prosperity Index which offers cross-countries'...
Thursday, December 5, 2013

5/12/2013: Irish Education: In Need of Serious Reforms

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This is an unedited version of my column in October-November issue of the Village Magazine . Over the last two decades, Irish economic ...
Tuesday, December 3, 2013

3/12/2013: Some top level results from PISA 2012: Part 2

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In previous post I covered the PISA results (top-level overview) for Ireland ( http://trueeconomics.blogspot.ie/2013/12/3122013-some-top-le...

3/12/2013: Some top level results from PISA 2012: Irish Education Performance

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PISA results are out today. Here's the link:  http://www.oecd.org/pisa/keyfindings/pisa-2012-results.htm And some snapshots of Irelan...
Saturday, August 3, 2013

3/8/2013: Humanities: Don't Just Discount the Vital Set of Skills

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Over a month ago, I wrote in the Sunday Times about the topic of balance in education between the humanities and sciences and led this poin...
Tuesday, July 2, 2013

2/7/2013: Sunday Times, June 30, 2013: Irish education system reforms

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This is an unedited version of my Sunday Times article from June 30, 2013. Note: an interesting related article on human capital and val...
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Monday, July 1, 2013

1/7/2013: Summary of education systems stats for Ireland, 2013

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Interesting numbers on education system in Ireland, compared to OECD and EU21:  http://ec.europa.eu/ireland/press_office/news_of_the_day/pd...
Sunday, July 29, 2012

29/7/2012: Irish Competitiveness

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Unedited version of my Sunday Times article from July 22. These days, with nearly 15 percent unemployment, and almost...
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Friday, January 29, 2010

Economics 29/01/2010: News from the Knowledge Economy Front

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Newsflash from Ireland's Knowledge Economy Front - our troops, led by heroic fighter for Knowledge, Batt O' "Modern Science&qu...
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Sunday, January 24, 2010

Economics 24/01/2010: Knowldge Economy and Irish academia

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Charles Larkin and Brian Lucey are having a go at the issues clogging up Irish third level policies in Sunday Business Post today....
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