CDVEC Curriculum Development Unit

The new CPD calendar for CDVEC staff is now available for download on our website!

Imagining a free and just world?

Trócaire/Poetry Ireland Competition

Closing date for entries: 11th November 2011.

For more information please visit http://tinyurl.com/6zgrxok

National Heritage Week is running until the end of this week. Many events are free.

Taken from website of the Department of Education and Skills:

“The new authority will operate under the aegis of the Department of Education and Skills. SOLAS will co-ordinate and fund the wide range of training and further education programmes around the country.

It will fulfil a role for the further education and training sector similar to that exercised by the Higher Education Authority for higher education institutions. It will draw on its own expertise and that of the Expert Group on Future Skills Needs to help identify skills gaps, point to weaknesses and duplication in existing provision and link courses more closely to both the needs of the individual and the labour market.

FÁS will be disbanded.

SOLAS will ensure that further education and training programmes provide jobseekers and other learners with the new skills needed for the new jobs in Ireland’s 21st century labour market, as outlined in the National Skills Strategy.”

“The Strategy aims to ensure that teachers and schools maintain a strong focus on
literacy and numeracy skills, within a broad and balanced curriculum. It sets
out a wide-ranging programme of reforms in initial teacher education courses, in
professional development for teachers and school principals, and in the content
of the curriculum at primary and post-primary levels in order to achieve these
vital skills.” (Department of Education and Skills website)

The report is available at the Department’s website