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Evans, Stephen – Learning and Work Institute, 2021
The Skills for Jobs White Paper and funding and accountability consultation set out the Government's plans to introduce a greater focus on the outcomes of learning, including a new Skills Measure that looks at the employment and other outcomes that learners achieve. Will this give colleges and providers greater freedom to deliver for learners, or…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Accountability, Outcomes of Education, Employment
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Brady, Anne-Marie; Keogh, Brian – Health Education Journal, 2016
Objective: The aim of this evaluation was to determine the cultural and educational appropriateness of a pilot asthma education programme developed for the Traveller and Roma community in Ireland. Design: A participatory multi-stakeholder and qualitative approach. Setting: Prevalence and inadequate control of asthma have been found to be high…
Descriptors: Diseases, Minority Groups, Public Health, Cost Effectiveness
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Salmon, Nancy; García Iriarte, Edurne; Burns, Emma Q. – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2017
Participation of people with disabilities in producing and using research is critical for monitoring the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The Research Active Programme (RAP) is a module designed to build research capacity of students with intellectual disabilities. RAP was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intellectual Disability, Capacity Building, Research Skills
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Share, Michelle; Kerrins, Liz – Child Care in Practice, 2013
Recently in Ireland attention has been placed on the importance of parental involvement in early childhood care and education settings as seen in the Síolta Quality Standards and Aistear Curriculum Framework. Yet there is little Irish empirical evidence on parental involvement in childcare settings; on the involvement models being used, or on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Participation, Child Care Centers, Parent Role
Bailey, Natasha; Ward, Mark; Goodrick, Michelle – AONTAS The National Adult Learning Organisation, 2011
The research described in this report is a companion piece of research to one conducted by AONTAS from 2009-2010 about the outcomes and impact of Department of Education and Skills (DES) funded community education. It answers a call in that research to isolate and investigate the outcomes of community education not wholly funded through DES. This…
Descriptors: Social Change, Social Action, Models, Community Education