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Item The lived reality of educational disadvantage by Brian Fleming(Routledge, 2022-03-09) Hyland, ÁineThis 160-page publication entitled The Lived Reality of Educational Disadvantage is an important addition to the literature on educational disadvantage in Ireland. Its author, Brian Fleming, was principal of a second-level school in one of the most disadvantaged areas of Dublin for 25 years and in 2016 he published Irish Education 1922–2007: Cherishing All the Children? (Mynchen’s Field Press). Formerly a TD, Dr. Fleming has wide political experience and understands better than most how educational policy is formed and implemented.Item Teacher education reform in Ireland: policy and process(Graduate School of Education, University of Western Australia, 2018) Hyland, ÁineThe central role of teachers in ensuring the quality of education has been increasingly recognised internationally in recent decades. This paper reviews various shifts that have occurred in the initial teacher education agenda internationally during this time period. The paper reviews the radical reform that has occurred in the structure and provision of Irish teacher education since 2012. The paper considers the approach taken to reducing fragmentation within the Irish system and concludes with a discussion of the author’s concerns and recommendations for the future of initial teacher education, with particular reference to Ireland.Item Foreign Tongues Victorian Language Learning and the Shaping of Modern Ireland by Phyllis Gaffney(Irish Labour History Society, 2025-01-01) Hyland, ÁineA review of Phyllis Gaffney’s Foreign Tongues Victorian Language Learning and the Shaping of Modern Ireland (UCD Press, 2024) written by Professor Áine Hyland.Item Generative AI in higher education teaching and learning(Higher Education Authority, 2025) O'Sullivan, JamesItem Does our current educational system provide opportunities for success for everybody?(Teachers' Union of Ireland, 2002) Hyland, ÁineIreland was a relative latecomer to free second level education for all. Whereas most Western European countries introduced mass second level schooling soon after the Second World War, it was 1967 before Donncha O'Malley, the then Minister for Education, introduced free second level education in Ireland. In terms of enrolment statistics, the scheme was a great success. Within a decade, enrolment in second level schools had doubled and by the late 1990s the numbers had trebled. By the end of the 20th century, 97% of the relevant cohort were completing junior cycle (up from 44% in the mid 1960s) and over 80% sat a Leaving Certificate (up from about 20%). However, concern has been expressed in recent years that the numbers taking Leaving Certificate have remained at around 83% during the past decade despite a plethora of government interventions and supports for those at risk of early school leaving.