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Public Views on Shared Education in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is a deeply divided society and the level of separation between Protestant and Catholic communities is reflected in its education system. Less than 6% of the school-aged population is educated together. The system of education in Northern Ireland is undergoing significant administrative and…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Tackling Rural Poverty Among Older Adults
People who live in rural poverty often remain invisible to society, obscured physically by beautiful scenery and statistically by their wide geographic dispersion. This is particularly true for older people who live in rural poverty.Nearly one-third of the rural elderly in Northern Ireland exist on…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Giving Children’s Rights Their Day in Court
The research underlying the 1997 report by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child identified many issues related to the youth of Northern Ireland. A key finding was low awareness among children, families and caregivers of children’s legal rights and available services.…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Promoting Immigrants’ Rights
Immigration is one of the biggest issues facing Ireland in the coming years. The rise in the immigrant population accounted for some 30 per cent of the total increase in population between 1996 and 2002. By 2020, it could account for as much as 50…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Providing Better Legal Defence for the Poor in Texas
More than 15 per cent of Texas’ 22 million people live below the poverty line – most of them in rural areas. Texas is one of 16 states that require county governments to provide a majority of funding for indigent legal defence services. Each county…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Up Close: Blogging from South Africa
Source: Gara LaMarche and Jack Rosenthal
Night and a Day in QueenstownPosted by Gara LaMarche | 18 March 2011, South AfricaAs Jack has chronicled, we arrived in Queenstown, the final leg of our journey in the Eastern Cape, in the dark, around 7 p.m. This was a problem for two reasons. First, we’d…
Resource type: News
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Not Just a Numbers Game: Budget Cuts Threaten Those Already Struggling
Source: Gara LaMarche
“Oh, I really feel we’ve been led up the garden path…We are the people that worked. We put this country on its feet, and we’re the people that are being hit every which way.” - Diane, age 81, in Dublin, Ireland Across many of the geographies…
Resource type: News
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Pupils benefit from teachers’ management training
Source: Irish Examiner
By Niall Murray, Education Correspondent PUPILS whose teachers take classroom management training are better behaved and have a better chance in the education system, research suggests.The study examined the behaviour of 217 pupils in 22 infant classes at 11 Limerick schools, some of whose staff…
Resource type: News
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Sara Gould Joins the Foundation Center as Visiting Fellow
Source: The Foundation Center
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT:Cheryl LoeCommunications Project ManagerThe Foundation Center(888) 356-0354, ext. 701communications@foundationcenter.orgNew York, NY — February 15, 2011. Sara K. Gould, former president and CEO of the Ms. Foundation for Women, has joined the Foundation Center in the role of The Atlantic Philanthropies Senior Fellow. During this…
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Put Reading Power First says youngballymun
Source: Youngballymun
We have a national literacy emergency as well as an economic emergency - and one won’t be fixed without the other - is the message of youngballymun, making its election call to all political parties to put reading power first. Launching its 2011 Literacy Manifesto,…
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