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We are delighted to announce our EPI•STEM Autumn Winter Newsletter 2021 giving you a glimpse of our STEM research and development activities in the last number of months in The National Centre for STEM Education at the University of Limerick (EPI∙STEM Newsletter Autumn-Winter 2021). We are now welcoming STEM articles of interest for our next EPI*STEM Newsletter in Spring 2022. Continue Reading

Junior Cycle Talks is a podcast channel provided by the Junior Cycle for Teachers (JCT) support service. The podcasts explore a variety of issues, themes and topics that may be of interest to all teachers, students, parents and school leaders. Housed on this channel is the podcast Tangents which is the JCTs mathematics team’s podcast. It explores a number of Continue Reading

Minister Harris launches “Good Practice in Integrated and Standalone Numeracy Provision at Levels 1 – 3: Background report, guidelines and recommendations”.   On September 27th 2021Minister Simon Harris, on behalf of the Further Education and Training Authority (SOLAS) along with the National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA) and the Education and Training Board (ETB) launched a report entitled “Good Practice in Continue Reading

📣Calling secondary school mathematics teachers📢 have students ever asked “When will I use logs & indices in the real world?”; “What maths do I need if I want to become a lawyer?”;”Can maths be fun?”;”What’s the point of finding x when it will be a different value tomorrow?” For @mathsweek EPISTEM would love to answer some of these burning questions Continue Reading

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Professional Diploma in Mathematics for Teaching (PDMT) Online Application System is now OPEN   We are delighted to announce that the online application system for the Professional Diploma in Mathematics for Teaching is now open. If you wish to apply for the programme please submit your application online at the following link: Professional Diploma Mathematics Teaching Level 8   IMPORTANT: When Continue Reading

Goos, M., & Beswick, K. (Eds.) (2021). The learning and development of mathematics teacher educators: International perspectives and challenges. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030624071#aboutBook   Research in mathematics teacher education as a distinctive field of inquiry has grown substantially over the past 10-15 years. Within this field there is emerging interest in how mathematics teacher educators (MTEs) themselves learn and Continue Reading

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Gender Balance in STEM Education Research to inform future policy The Minister for Education Norma Foley TD today (Tuesday 17 November) launched a new publication: A Review of Literature to Identify a Set of Effective Interventions for Addressing Gender Balance in STEM in Early Years, Primary and Post-Primary Education Settings. The report sets out what is known about critical barriers Continue Reading

The Minister for Education, Norma Foley, TD, and the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris, TD, together with the HEA have announced a new initiative for registered post-primary teachers to upskill to teach Maths, Physics and Spanish. Click here for the full article