On the 1st of September UCC’s New Avenues to Teaching (NAT) initiative (https://www.ucc.ie/en/nat/) will launch the project “EKARA - Exploring Knowledge and Awareness of Reasonable Accommodations/Adjustments for ITE Students with Disabilities in ROI and NI". This project is funded by SCoTENS within the 2023 Seed Funding competition. It is an innovative, collaborative project between the UCC School of Education and the Education Department at St. Mary's University College Belfast.

In collaboration with colleagues in the Cork Centre for Architecture education, and the Civic and Community Engagement unit, the School of Education in UCC was delighted to facilitate an embedded community research project with visiting scholars and undergraduate students from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro (UNCG) in the month of June. Nine UNCG students studying kinesiology, and communication studies, along with their two professors, Kristen Christman and Donna Duffy engaged in a community research project with the Fairhill Community Association. 

Congratulations to current UCC School of Education PME Year 1 students, Pádraig McAuliffe and Alice Murray, who have been awarded bursaries from the Cork Branch of the Irish Mathematics Teachers Association (IMTA).

A huge thank you to the Cork IMTA for their generosity in supporting incoming UCC PME mathematics student teachers through these bursaries. This support is especially valuable given the shortage of mathematics graduates pursuing teaching through the consecutive ITE route.

Well done to Pádraig and Alice on their successful applications, and many thanks to Seán O'Donovan (Cork IMTA Chairperson) for presenting the awards on behalf of the IMTA!

To celebrate National Science Week, UCC Science Education and The School of Chemistry were delighted to host UCC staff and their children for an evening of chemistry magic!