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No room at the blackboard: one teacher’s search for work

September 22, 2009

Just over a year ago, Brian McArdle and his class were welcomed onto a postgraduate diploma course in education. Since June he has been desperately seeking a teaching job, writesLOUISE HOLDEN

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Ambitious, sharp-suited Hayes is eager beaver of education

September 22, 2009

Confident and sometimes cocky, Fine Gael’s point man on education Brian Hayes relishes his role as a thorn in the side of the Government, writesMary Minihan

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Burning the midnight oil with night-owl academics

September 22, 2009

Ireland needs to rediscover a can-do attitude in order to dig itself out of its economic hole

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Class act: is this the best movie that has ever been made about teaching?

February 24, 2009

Highly acclaimed French movie ‘The Class’ is an engaging, gritty look at the life of a teacher and his pupils in a disadvantaged Parisian suburb. Will it teach us all a lesson?

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