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Revealed: Europe’s top ten MBA schools favoured by employers
1.France's INSEAD was last year ranked Europe's number one MBA school by international employers. The average INSEAD graduate started the programme with six years of work experience and left commanding a base salary of $107,240. The course duration is ten months, places a strong focus on entrepreneurship and requires students to be tri-lingual.
The project maths course divides teachers -- but does it add up?
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In My Opinion: Teaching languages at primary level will be a key to our economic future
The Government's budget announcement for 2012 to abolish the Modern Languages in Primary Schools Initiative (MLPSI), which supports the learning of foreign languages in over 550 primary schools nationally, should be rethought.
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High-speed broadband for all secondary schools 'by 2014'
EVERY secondary school in the country is to get industrial-speed broadband to allow for interactive teaching within two-and-a-half years as the Government plays catch-up with our international neighbours.
Should schools be run by untrained volunteers and reluctant priests?
They are a vast army of volunteers who give up their time to run primary schools, but in some cases they are struggling to keep up with the rapid pace of change.
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Mock exam results can be a wake-up call for students
As thousands of Leaving Certificate students take their 'mock' exams around this time of year, a lot of time will be spent frantically converting the grades they receive in the mocks into points, wondering will these results translate into the results they will need in the Leaving Cert.
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