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Organisers of the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition, have suggested that Ireland needs to take an early, more rounded, approach to fostering an interest in STEM with students. This comes as this year’s Leaving Cert results show an increase, under the new marking scheme, of student securing top level marks in STEM subjects such as physics, chemistry, biology, technical graphics, and maths.

Adult Literacy Awareness week takes place from Monday to Friday, September 21-25. The aim of the week is to promote local literacy services, raise awareness of the benefits of improving reading, writing, and numeracy skills, and to highlight the benefits of helping people with poor literacy and numeracy skills accessing adult education, to create a more inclusive society.

Yeats College’s highly qualified, professional, and passionate teaching staff deliver successful strategies for maximum achievement at Leaving Certificate level. The introduction of Project Maths is a welcome addition to a contemporary maths syllabus.

A study published in England concluded that pupils without instant recall of multiplication tables struggle in maths. According to Ofsted’s education director: ”It is really important that children have the tools of arithmetic at their finger tips. Without that it is like sending a plumber out to do a job without knowing how to use a spanner.”

The Quay School in Westport recently marked Maths Week with a wide range of activities which were suitable for all classes.

The School of Education at NUI Galway will host a series of workshops as part of the University’s new Continual Professional Development (CPD) programme for teachers. The workshops will focus on statistics, teaching and learning plans in Project Maths and GeoGebra. The events will take place on 1, 8 and 15 March in the Education Building in the University from 6 to 8.30 each evening.

The School of Education at NUI Galway will host a series of workshops as part of the University’s new Continual Professional Development (CPD) programme for teachers. The workshops will focus on statistics, teaching and learning plans in Project Maths and GeoGebra. The events will take place on 1, 8 and 15 March in the Education Building in the University from 6 to 8.30 each evening.

The Board of Management and science teachers of Loreto College, Mullingar, one of two local schools who had inspection reports posted on the Department of Education website recently, expressed their disappointment that the delayed building project has resulted in the failure to provide two new laboratories at the school.