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This work provides an authoritative account of Irish higher education from a comparative perspective. It reviews the expansion and diversification of the system in the light of global developments, and provides a rigorous comparison of relative participation rates and levels of equity.
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Today, a substantial portion of higher education is provided outside of the traditional universities in non-university institutions with a multitude of varied characteristics. In recent decades, higher education systems have been subjected to many changes and reforms throughout the world. One of the most important was undoubtedly the expansion of higher education in the second half of the last century from an elite system to one for the masses. While institutions of higher learning have been in existence for approximately 1,000 years, this exponential growth has been much more recent. This movement toward mass higher education has created substantial national impacts on the development of th...
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Patrick was born November 27th, 1924 at St. John's Hospital in Springfield, Illinois. Graduated from Cathedral Boys High School class of 1942, at the age of 17. Due to the fact that the nation was just recovering from the Great Depression and Europe was in the grasp of Hitler's Nazi aggression many young men found themselves unable to find jobs due to the newly set draft board. Clancy and his classmates decided to go to the recruiting office and kick their number up. Their response surprised the recruiting officer and the notified the local press who sent a camera man over to get pictures. Clancy joined the Army Air Corps and served in Europe during W.W.II where he met and married his Englis...
This review addresses the full range of higher education issues in Ireland and offers recommendations for action within the framework of the government’s ambitions for the sector.
Explains the reasons for the large Irish emigration, and examines the problems they faced adjusting to new lives in the United States.
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