The Government has pledged to establish a Citizen’s Assembly on education in the coming months – but what should it address?
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The assembly should provide a safe space for the general public to spell out how they see the education system serving them and their communities. Different factors contribute to a culture of learning – school curricula and assessment, including a greater prioritisation of experiential learning approaches; modernisation of the CAO process to provide greater access across the breadth of opportunities within higher and further education; and supporting people to develop complementary technical and transversal skills as they transition to the world of work and within it.
The CAO system is based primarily on exam results and a limited range of subjects, which places undue pressure on students to achieve high grades in a narrow set of areas. Photograph: Nick BradshawWhile senior cycle reform is the buzzword of education groups at the moment, the key issue facing second-level students is the CAO “rat race”.
The historic disparity in funding between primary, post-primary and third-level, the underinvestment in comparison with OECD [Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development] norms and the repeated failures of the State to plan properly for population change must be central to the discussion. A recent meeting of the Citizens' Assembly, on drug use. The assembly is due to discuss the future of education in the coming months. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA WireDr Kevin Williams is former president of the Educational Studies Association of Ireland
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