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9.1 Protecting the Frontline
9.7 Children First
A new “One Stop Shop” for Welfare and Job and Training Referral: We will create a new ‘one stop shop’ for getting back to work, the Payments and Entitlements Service. It will provide extensive skills assessment, training guidance and job referral services to the unemployed, as well as other welfare and service entitlements (see Section 19.5). Many job-seekers will continue to be referred to existing FAS training centres and services, which will operate under a new slimmed down governance structure. Community Employment schemes will be maintained and expanded but will be managed by local authorities.
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Local education boards to meet local needs
Better school leadership
More democratic Primary school patronage
Curriculum & Learning reform for the 21st Century
Improve literacy for the first time in a generation
Improving equity in education
Upgrading our education infrastructure
Reforming Third Level Education
Lifelong Learning
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New Schools and Growing Campuses Fianna Fáil is committed to:
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Key Objectives Sinn Féin will support and work for an education system that will:
These Key Objectives, and the broad principles that underlie them,must govern priorities,strategies and structures in education. They can only be achieved through a significant and sustained investment in education. Schools as Learning Organisations in a Learning Neighbourhood Sinn Féin will support and work for the development of an education system that is characterised and governed by the principles of organisational learning. Such a system would comprise of meaningful and effective partnerships between local education providers and the community with whom they work in the development, maintenance and ongoing improvement of ‘Learning Neighbourhoods ‘. Tackling Disadvantage Sinn Féin will support and work for an all-Ireland approach to identifying, targeting and redressing disadvantage in education. In particular, Sinn Féin will advocate significantly increased funding for education in areas of greatest disadvantage and focused intervention at the earliest possible stage. The Irish language Sinn Féin will support and work for increased availability and better resourcing of Irish-medium education and for significantly strengthened recognition of the essential place of the Irish language in an Irish education system. Towards an education system for all of Ireland Sinn Féin will support and work for an all-Ireland education system that promotes a self-confident, secure identity in a society based on equality and social justice -a society open and receptive to the world. To that end, Sinn Féin will campaign for all-Ireland implementation of the Right to Education from Early Years to 18 and harmonisation of the two systems based on principles of equality and inclusion. Such harmonisation necessitates increased sharing of resources and expertise. It also requires significantly greater ease of contact and mobility between and among institutions,partners and personnel involved in education. Priorities into Practice - Areas for Action Sinn Féin’s vision and broad aims for our island‚s education systems acknowledge the complex, interwoven and interdependent nature of their constituent parts. This document focuses on specific areas and structures of the education system and sets out key objectives and campaigning issues in each of them.None of these exists independently of the other. Within each interdependent area, the main objectives that Sinn Féin will support and seek to realise are as follows: Early Years Universally available publicly funded early childhood education with appropriate resources to facilitate on-site work with parents and accommodate the earliest and most effective detection of Special Educational Needs Primary Level Primary schools that are centred in the community, reflective of the community,that share information and expertise with local nursery schools and post-primary schools and aim for a pupil-teacher ratio of 15:1, to facilitate development and learning at this crucial stage Post-primary level All-ability 11-18 comprehensive schools with substantially increased support for pupils and teachers in those schools where the measured social and educational need of the school population is relatively high, with adequate resources to encourage team work, the sharing of information and experience and greater collaboration within and between post-primary schools and between them, their feeder primary schools and local third level institutions. Third level/Further and Higher Education Education and training to be an entitlement for all made possible by adequate grant-aid and support mechanisms,and the provision of focused access programmes for schools that currently have a low take up of third level places Adult and Community Education An all–Ireland adult literacy campaign with the clear objective of reducing adult functional illiteracy to under 10%within four years, and the development of a system of adult and community education that reflects and meets the diverse needs and interests of adult learners. Youth Provision Promotion of a young person centred approach to education and a youth service that can genuinely engage all young people through innovative and diverse programmes of informal learning. Irish Language /Irish Medium Improved provision of naíscoileanna ((naíonraí)where there is demand, with viability criteria that realistically reflect the needs of the local community. Curriculum The development of a broad and balanced curriculum that addresses the needs of the whole child, recognises the diversity of learning abilities and intelligences among young people, and develops the learners‚ interest in and enthusiasm for,learning about and engaging with the world around them. Appropriate provision of supports within mainstream classrooms for children with Learning Disability, together with a joint departmental and governmental approach to the early detection and remediation of special educational needs. Tackling Disadvantage The implementation of integrated responses to the needs of students who are educationally disadvantaged and at risk of under-achievement in school, to be based on a joined up approach by schools, parents, local community organisations and agencies and the statutory sector. In particular: proper counselling facilities for pupils and non-managerial process support for teachers in schools where the social and educational need of the school population is relatively high. An enhanced status for teachers, and in particular, significant improvements in pay, terms and conditions which reflect the experience, professionalism and dedication of the profession Increased funding for continuous professional development opportunities that make optimal use of existing expertise within the teaching profession Systemic and Organisational Issues The development of organisational and managerial practices that promote the principles of learning organisation within learning neighbourhoods. | |
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Excellence in education for future generations In Government, the Green Party protected education by: maintaining pupil-teacher ratios; reversing severe education cuts in Budget 2009; and stopping a reintroduction of third level fees. The Green Party will:
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