15 Dec 2006

Winter Conferring Ceremonies at University College Cork (UCC), 15 December

Winter conferring ceremonies concluded today (15 December 2006) at University College Cork with Diplomas, Higher Diplomas and Postgraduate Diplomas conferred on almost 500 students from the College of Arts, Celtic Studies & Social Sciences.  

The Conferring addresses were given by Professor David Mackenzie, Department of Hispanic Studies and Professor Francis Douglas, Department of Education, UCC.

Among those conferred were 36 UCC staff members who were the first group to graduate with a Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching & Learning in Higher Education. This new programme, set up by Professor Áine Hyland and her team, and led by Bettie Higgs and Marian McCarthy, aims to provide professional development for teaching staff.  The group included 13 staff from the College of Science, Engineering and Food Science; 12 from the College of Medicine & Health; seven from the College of Business & Law, four from the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences and two from the Cork Institute of Technology.

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