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Improving the Lives of Older People on the Island of Ireland : A Study Day The Atlantic Philanthropies and the Centre for Cross Border Studies 2 June 2004 Centre for Cross Border Studies, Armagh On behalf of The Atlantic Philanthropies, the Centre for Cross Border Studies organised a private study day on Improving the lives of older […]

Press Release 20 May 2004 A new cross-border university and science network between Denmark and Sweden has played a key role in “mobilising companies” to tackle international markets, a North/South higher education conference organised by the Centre for Cross Border Studies has heard.

Friday 30 April 2004 Marino Institute of Education, Dublin The purpose of meeting was to share joint perspectives on the North/South student teacher exchange initiative, which was organised by the Centre for Cross Border Studies under the auspices of the Standing Conference on Teacher Education, North and South. It was important to gather an honest […]

SCoTENS, Standing Conference on Teaching Education, North and South, administered by the Centre for Cross Border Studies, have approved new funding applications for research projects and conferences. They included: Continuing Professional Development North and South: Policy, Provision, Processes and Possibilities Dr Paul Conway (NUI Cork), Dr Hugh Kearns (Stranmillis UC), Dr Mary McAteer(University of Ulster, […]

4 February 2004 Centre for Cross Border Studies, Armagh Emer Egan, Assistant Chief Inspector, Department of Education and Science in Dublin and Marion Barriskell, Special EU Programmes Body project officer opened the North South Student Teacher Exchange Orientation Day (Year 2) in the Centre for Cross Border Studies in Armagh. Programme 11.00 am Refreshments and […]

Pride of Our Place: Phase II 2002 – 2006 This is a three-year project to bring together a group of primary schools in border areas in both jurisdictions which have suffered from the Northern Ireland conflict so that they can study a key feature or area in their locality by looking at it historically and […]

The Department for Employment and Learning in Belfast and the Department of Education and Science in Dublin, together with representatives of the university, institute of technology, further education and student sectors, North and South, have come together to organise a series of conferences on aspects of higher education in Ireland. They have asked the Centre for Cross […]

Press Release 27 November 2004 The Centre for Cross Border Studies and Dublin City University have set up Citizenship and Science Exchange (CaSE), an ICT-based cross-border schools project aimed at deepening understanding of similarities and differences between science and citizenship education in secondary schools in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. 40 teachers from […]

Press Release 6 November 2003 Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland can learn from the American example by starting to prepare their disadvantaged young people for third level education at the age of 11, the US’s leading spokesman for wider access to higher education has told a Belfast conference. Dr Arnold Mitchem, President of […]

Higher Education Conference Series: Conference 3 6-7 November 2003 Ramada Hotel, Belfast The purpose of this conference was to discuss how improved collaboration in policy and practice issues could widen access to Higher Educationon on a North/South basis. This was the third in a series of North/South Higher Education Conferences. PROGRAMME Thursday 6 November Chair: […]

Press Release 9 October 2003 Parents and the media often act as strong constraints on educational innovation and change, a leading international expert on future trends in education has told a conference in Malahide, County Dublin. Mr David Istance of the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation in Paris told the inaugural conference of […]