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TITLE OF THE PUBLICATION:

DEIS An Action Plan for Social Inclusion

SURNAME AND NAME OF AUTHOR(S):

Department of Education and Science

PUBLISHER:

Department of Education and Science

PLACE AND DATE OF PUBLICATION:

Ireland 2005

TYPE OF PUBLICATION:

National Action Plan

LANGUAGE/S OF PUBLICATION:

English

LANGUAGE OF REVIEW:

English

DESCRIPTION OF CONTENTS:

This action plan focuses on addressing the educational needs of children and young people from disadvantaged communities, from pre-school through second-level education (3 to18 years). Its frame of reference is based on the definition of “educational disadvantage” in the
Education Act (1998) as:
“…the impediments to education arising from social or economic disadvantage which prevent students from deriving appropriate benefit from education in schools.”

The action plan is one element of a continuum of interventions to address disadvantage, which include second-chance education and training and access measures for adults to support increased participation by under-represented groups in further and higher education. It offers identification method of schools for inclusion in the system.

The document gives the background, the Social Inclusion context and responses to date. It outlines a framework and Action Plan incorporating Literacy and Numeracy, Second Level Education, the role of home and local community, school clustering, and the role of local services e.g. library system

It offers a plan for the period 2005 to 2008.

COMMENTS ON THIS PUBLICATION:

The Action Plan gives a positive and in-depth response to educational disadvantage and offers additional supports to particularly vulnerable groups, including Travellers

NAME OF COMPILER:

Ann Caulfield

NAME OF INSTITUTION:

Mayo Education Centre

ROLE:

Researcher



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Stay@School at the Future of Education Conference

The Stay@School projet will be presented at the third edition of the “Future of Education” international conference, held in Florence, Italy, on 13 - 14 June 2013. Over 250 participants from all over the world will attend the conference. The conference participants belong to the sectors of higher education, school education, vocational education and training as well as adult education, therefore representing all of the target groups of the Stay@School project.

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