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News & Announcements
10 Oct 2024
Launch of New Avenues to Teaching Bursary
We are delighted to announce the launch of the 2024-25 New Avenues to Teaching bursary scheme for student teachers from under-represented groups. Further information can be found at www.ucc.ie/en/nat/ Closing date: Friday, 20th December 2024 at 4pm.
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10 Oct 2024
The School of Education Welcomes our 2024 Cohort of PhD Students
We were delighted to welcome our new Cohort of PhD students for their induction on the 21st of September. It was a great day and we are looking forward to seeing the contributions that our 2024 Cohort make to Irish education through their research!! Further information on our Cohort programme can be found at: https://www.ucc.ie/en/ckh78/
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19 Sep 2024
Research on elite entry to Oxbridge by Nicola Ingram is featured on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed programme
An article entitled 'Private school entry to Oxbridge: how cultural capital counts in the making of elites' by Nicola Ingram and her co-author Rachel Stenhouse is featured on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed in an episode on British Elites.
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13 Sep 2024
Inaugural cohort of the Postgraduate Diploma in Further, Adult and Community Education
On the 13th of September 2024, Adult Continuing Education (ACE), in partnership with the School of Education, welcomed the inaugural cohort of the Postgraduate Diploma in Further, Adult and Community Education (PDFACE) programme to the college. For the first time, in the history of UCC and teacher education provision in Cork, we are providing a FET teacher qualification for all those practitioners working with adult learners across the diverse voluntary and statutory providers in our community. We honour the seminal work of Bertram Windle, Alfred O’Rahilly and so many women and men who have worked with adult learners over the years, and we look forward to supporting the further professionalisation of adult educators into the future! More information about the programme can be found at: https://www.ucc.ie/en/ace-pdface/
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