Primary Education in 20th Century

By lds.ireland

  • Publication of The Whitaker%u2019s Economic Report

  • Adoption of The Whitaker Report

  • Progress, growth and even survival depended on an%u201Ceducated%u201Dworkforce, Vaizey, J. & Druker, P.

  • Reorganised Curriculum Recommended

    The Investment in Education Team recommended a reorganised curriculum to bring education into harmony with industrial, commercial and agricultural needs of the new state

  • Investment in Education Report

  • Primary Certificate Examination Terminated

  • Small School Closures

    One of the more controversial features of the "investment thinking" was the recommendation that a number of small schools should be closed in keeping with cost-effect procedures Two-thirds of primary schools at the time were one or two teacher schools and facilitate the introduction. Closures of one and two teacher schools were reduced the numbers from 3,194 to 1,168 during the period 1962-1979

  • The introduction of the Free Education Scheme

  • Introduction of the child-centred, New Primary School Curriculum

  • Boards of Management Introduced

    Boards of Management were introduced in school governance

  • Green Paper on Education

  • Charting our Education future: White Paper on Education

  • Education Act, 1998

  • Education Welfare Act

  • EPSEN Act

  • Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2007