... several skills an entrepreneur requires to operate their business and the purpose of this paper is to examine if the training and support necessary for entrepreneurship to occur within ethnic communities exists in Ireland. Design/methodology/approach This study was carried out among established ethnic...

... of ALOs in Ireland and provides a small example of empirical evidence of the commodification and marketisation of adult literacy under neoliberalism. Literacy is often promoted as the great equaliser and panacea for social and economic problems. Graff (1979) argues that the idea that literacy...

...Victoria Harte; Jim Stewart; Clare Rigg; Breda O'Dwyer Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a theoretical discussion of a developing epistemology and methodology for a qualitative study of participants of enterprise education in south‐west Ireland, run collaboratively between third...

... 2011 Education Students Ireland Social change Citizen participation To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society (Theodore Roosevelt). This paper centres on the concept of education as a personal and social process, with the aim of developing...

... and learning chemistry and also evaluating the role of personal development in student‐community engagement. Design/methodology/approach A case study on the implementation since 2007 of community‐based learning (also called service‐learning) projects in an academic department in Ireland is presented...

... outcomes through numbers (e.g. grades of students). This meant that our framework was illuminative (social science/interpretative) rather than scientific (positivist/hypothesis‐testing) (Parlett and Hamilton, 1972): Students Community relations Learning Ireland As we face unprecedented...

... and physics. This case study cites the experience and strategies of the Kentz Group and Cork Institute of Technology, Cork, Ireland in developing tomorrow's engineers, with particular reference to instrument engineers. Design/methodology/approach The approach adopted is that of a case study which...

... and who is a graduate entrepreneur is challenged. Design/methodology/approach The paper reports upon the pragmatic development of enterprise programmes in Ireland and Australia. Despite different starting points, a convergence of purpose as to what can be realistically expected of enterprise education...

... whether students in tertiary level institutions in Ireland display the personality traits of an entrepreneur, which are necessary to found an enterprise. Design/methodology/approach In order to implement the study linkages with Ireland's Network of Teachers and Researchers in Entrepreneurship...

.... Design/methodology/approach The data are largely qualitative and derived from the experiences of graduates, company supervisors and University of Ulster staff involved in projects during 2001‐2007 when 140 FUSION projects were undertaken across the island of Ireland. Findings More job opportunities...

...Thomas M. Cooney Purpose While the growth of the Irish economy (“Celtic Tiger”) has been well documented, not enough attention has been given to the role of education as a cornerstone for the success. This paper seeks to review education policy in Ireland over the past 50 years and to identify...

... a description of four entrepreneurship education initiatives in operation at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Detail on the objectives of the initiatives, the content, delivery, assessment and benefits of these initiatives is provided. Findings Entrepreneurship and enterprising activity are widely...

...Naomi Birdthistle; Briga Hynes; Patricia Fleming Purpose The aim of this paper is to examine the perceptions and attitudes towards enterprise education at secondary level[1] in Ireland from a multi‐stakeholder perspective. The key stakeholders involved in enterprise education are teachers...

... creation and growth. Based on a small‐scale qualitative study of a group of indigenous entrepreneurs in the information technology sector in Ireland, this paper presents evidence consistent with the argument that multinational enterprises provide an important source of learning for mall to medium‐sized...

...; the content of entrepreneurship programmes and the cultural and evaluative considerations. The article discusses and compares training and support provision for entrepreneurs in Ireland and The Netherlands. Kennedy (1993) notes that skills and knowledge, as developed through training and education...

... to small‐ to medium‐sized enterprises in a manner which recognises their working environment, mode of operation and preferred learning methods, and after addressing these, outlines differing methods at present being tested in the UK and Ireland. The two methodologies are different in that one programme...

... © MCB UP Limited 1999 --> Britain Ireland Partnerships Schools East-West programme Keywords: Britain, Ireland, Partnerships, Schools A new programme is being developed between Britain and Ireland, aimed at strengthening school partnerships and encouraging...

... © MCB UP Limited 1999 --> Internet Ireland Schools Irish schools linked to Internet Keywords Internet, Ireland, Schools More than 4,000 Irish schools are now linked to the Internet, thanks to the country's IT 2000 programme, a £40 million public-private...

... is the first language of the majority of students, there is perhaps the passive acceptance that students naturally know how to write good English. This is particularly the case in Ireland where all students have to pass English in the Leaving Certificate examination (the equivalent of A level) in order to gain...