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Notice to STEM Students Register your interest today to become a 2022 STEM teacher intern with EPI*STEM CASTeL UL_DCU partnership with the respective Schools of Education: https://stemteacherinternships.ie/join-as-intern/  

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We are delighted to announce that Professor Merrilyn Goos has accepted our invitation to become an Adjunct Professor at EPI•STEM The National Centre for STEM Education at the University of Limerick. Merrilyn, is currently Professor of Education at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia, a renowned mathematics educator and former Director of the Centre. We look forward to Continue Reading

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

NALA Numeracy Report

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