Public Lecture

Thursday 21 February
Davenport Hotel, Merrion Square, Dublin 2, 8 p.m.

Studies Quarterly Review and the Iona Institute are pleased to announce our second Public Lecture. The speaker will be Simon Conway Morris, Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology, University of Cambridge.

Educating Ourselves

The education system in Ireland is a State-supported rather than a State-owned system. In the main, it depends on private patrons to establish schools. To date, the patrons have mainly been Church based. In recent months, the debate on the future role of “faith based” schools has been very much to the fore. At times, the arguments seem to ignore the complex issues that underpin educational provision in Ireland.

In any Irish government, the Minister for Education and Science has a public profile second only to the Minister for Health, proof of our interest in education. Vast amounts of time and money are invested in primary and secondary education; grind schools are so popular that they are now a sub-section within the secondary sector; daily newspapers publish weekly education supplements. With all this effort, secondary education may be seen, in the harrowing race for points, merely as a preparation for university; primary education, in this perspective, could become a Cinderella.

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