Event Date:
October 27, 2012 - 15:00 to November 17, 2012 - 18:00
Street Address:
First Floor, 8 South Main St. Cork (opposite Eddie Rockets restaurant)
Socialist Worker is running a short course to assist activists to better understand and fight capitalism and its effects.
The workshops are facilitated by
Kieran Allen, (lecturer, UCD)
David Brancaleone, (lecturer, LIT)
The workshops operate through discussion and debate rather than through conventional forms of education.
They take place on Saturday afternoons.
The course will be held in “The Other Place” First Floor, 8 South Main St. Cork (opposite Eddie Rockets restaurant), on Saturday afternoons, from 3pm to 6pm
Submitted by jotoole on August 3, 2012 - 13:59
Nothing highlights the deepening class divisions in Ireland more than the education system, particularly at secondary school level.While the rest of public education buckles under the weight of staff and capitation grant cuts, Special Needs Assistant reductions and growing teacher/pupil ratios, the elitist private schools system has never had it better, thanks to the Fine Gael and Labour government.
Submitted by cboyd on March 12, 2012 - 11:35
3,000 parents. teachers and students protested this weekend in Donegal against education cutbacks.
The crowds from all over the North West marched through Letterkenny calling for Minister Ruauri Quinn to resign.
Donegal will lose up to 30 teaching posts but the people of the county look set to resist.
The fact that the Minister was forced to retreat on the DEIS schools shows that people power can win and that a sustained campaign of protests in the cities and in rural Ireland can win
The Donegal campaign is set to continue their protests.
Submitted by cboyd on March 2, 2012 - 10:57
There was a huge meeting recently in Ennis over school closures. Similar meetings were run in Tralee and Ballina in Mayo on the same evening.
At the Ennis meeting, 600 chairs were put out in the room but another 200 people were left standing as the space provided was the size of a football field.
Slides were used to show how the cut backs are going to impact on small schools by gradually increasing the pupil teacher ratio.
Submitted by cboyd on February 28, 2012 - 00:24
Over 3,000 people protested against cuts to schools in Mayo and Donegal on Saturday.
Over 2,000 teachers, parents and children protested in Castlebar and more than 700 people marched in Gaoth Dobhair.
The Irish National Teachers' Organisation estimates that up to 250 schools in rural areas nationwide will lose at least one teacher over the next three years, starting in September.
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February 28, 2012 - 00:23
Submitted by cboyd on September 1, 2011 - 15:52
As the new school and college year begins, government ministers are finalising further devastating cuts for December's budget.
Submitted by chrisb on May 10, 2010 - 16:03
In the budget of December 2009 a decision was made by the Irish government to discontinue the eligibility of mature students on Back to Education Allowance for the student maintenance grant.
Submitted by chrisb on May 10, 2010 - 16:02
The 2010 Budget saw the government draw
back on its stance that education is vital for pulling Ireland out of recession
and getting people into work, writes Gillian Smith.
Submitted by chrisb on May 10, 2010 - 15:59
A delegation from the Dublin City Post Primary branch of the Teachers Union of Ireland delivered a letter to ICTU HQ in Parnell Square on 19th May prior to an ICTU executive meeting scheduled for the following day. The delegation was led by Branch officers and supported by branch members. The delegation was representing the DCPP branch of approximately 1000 members. The letter was signed by the Branch Chair
Submitted by chrisb on May 10, 2010 - 15:59
As part of the ongoing campaign against the education cuts, teachers in Dublin North and North West will hold a protest outside the Finglas office of Government Chief Whip, Pat Carey T.D. this coming week.
