2009 Press Releases

Minister Seán Haughey officially opens NAIRTL Symposium
30.09.2009

Seán Haughey, TD, Minister of State, Department of Education and Science today (September 30th 2009) officially opened the NAIRTL Symposium on “Integrating generic competences in the curriculum.”
Generic competences are the skills, attitudes, and knowledge that a student acquires over the course of their studies and can be applied in a variety of job and life situations. There is a major challenge for teaching professionals to develop both the subject-specific and generic competences during the academic year, yet it is not clear how this can best be achieved or indeed how this can be assessed.

Today’s Symposium aims to address these issues using case studies and examples from European and international leaders representing diverse disciplines such as chemistry, art history, and business and marketing.

Pictured at the event were L-R: Catherine O’Mahony, NAIRTL, Éamonn P. Sweeney Vice-President for External Relations, UCC, Seán Haughey, TD, Minister of State, Department of Education and Science and Dr Norma Ryan, Director of the Quality Promotion Unit, UCC.

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