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Jimmy Deenihan TD, Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht today (Wednesday 10 April) launched a new MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) called Exploring Irish Identity which will present a broad overview of how history, geography and culture have interacted to create divergent, and sometimes contradictory, ideas of what it means to be Irish.

The MOOC is being designed and created by Hibernia College, in association with The Gathering, and is the first MOOC on the theme of Irish identity. The MOOC will be free of charge and starts on 27 May 2013. Registration for more information is open at mooc.hiberniacollege.com

Minister Jimmy Deenihan at the Launch of Hibernia College’s ‘Exploring Irish identity’ MOOC

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The Scholarship Scheme was initiated in the autumn of last year in co-operation with the Gaelic Players Association, the Camogie Association, Irish Rugby Union Players’ Association and Tennis Ireland. Each organisation was offered scholarships for a number of their players. Applications in all cases were made to Hibernia College which assessed and decided on successful applicants.

These scholarship awards are to mark the launch of a new suite of undergraduate programmes in which participants will study with Hibernia College to attain a University of London undergraduate BSc degree in business, management, computing and information systems or creative computing. There is also a diploma programme in management for graduates.

Last week Hibernia College also awarded five sports scholarships to recipients from the GPA and the Camogie Association at Croke Park.

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Dublin – Hibernia College awarded five sports scholarships to recipients from the GPA and the Camogie Association today at Croke Park. This initiative is part of a Scholarship Scheme which affords Irish sports men and women the opportunity to complete a degree or diploma while they continue to shine for Ireland, their county or club.

The Scholarship Scheme was initiated in Autumn 2012 in co-operation with the Gaelic Players Association, the Camogie Association, Irish Rugby Union Players’ Association and Tennis Ireland.

Hibernia College is Ireland’s largest provider of newly qualified teachers, and 4 of those awarded scholarships yesterday are currently students on the latest cohort of the Professional Diploma in Education programme.

Among those nominated by the GPA were; Aidan Harte, a senior hurler for Galway and his club Gort, Ger Brennan, who plays senior football for St. Vincent’s and won an All-Ireland Football medal with Dublin in 2011 and Alan Dillon, who plays senior football for Mayo and for his club Ballintubber.

Both Aidan Harte and Ger Brennan are graduate student teachers on the Professional Diploma in Education programme while Alan Dillon is a student on the Diploma in Management (for Graduates) programme. The Diploma is part of a recently launched series of undergraduate programmes in business, management and computing awarded by the prestigious University of London.

Sinéad Lynch, a county championship winner with Lough Lene Gaels in County Westmeath, and Sharon Lee, who currently plays for Kinvara Senior Camogie Club in Galway and won a British Final with London County last summer, were nominated for the awards by the Camogie Association. Both Sinéad and Sharon are graduate student teachers on the Professional Diploma in Education programme.

All of these graduate student teachers are about to embark on their first block of Teaching Practice affording them an opportunity to combine their sporting and educational expertise in post primary schools across the country.

23 January 2013; Hibernia College awarded five sports scholarships to recipients from the GPA and the Camogie Association today at Croke Park. At the presentation are Hibernia College Professional Diploma in Education scholarship award recipients, Fiona Kavanagh, Hibernia College Professional Diploma in Education student, second from left, Aidan Harte, Gaelic Players Association, third from left, Sharon Lee, Camogie Association, third from right, Sinéad Lynch, Camogie Association, second from right, and Niamh Kilkenny, Hibernia College Professional Diploma in Education student, right, with from left, Hibernia College Professional Diploma in Education Programme Director Melanie Ní Dhuínn, President of the Camogie Association Aileen Lawlor, President of the Gaelic Players Association Dessie Farrell, and President of Hibernia College Dr. Seán M. Rowland. Hibernia College Scholarships Presentation, Croke Park, Dublin.

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Dr. Sean M. Rowland (President), Co-founder Sara McDonnell (Executive Vice-President), Don Thornhill Ph.D (Chairman), Lord David Triesman (International Chairman), Professor Thomas Mitchell (Academic chairman), Professor Kathleen McCartney (Dean of the Faculty of Education), Harvard Graduate School of Education, Dr. Nicholas Breakwell (Executive Dean)

• Lord David Triesman, Chairman, International Advisory Board, Hibernia College
• Dean Kathleen McCartney, Dean of the Faculty of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
• Dr. Don Thornhill, Chairman, Hibernia College
• Professor Thomas Mitchell, Academic chairman, Hibernia College
• Dr. Sean M. Rowland, President, Hibernia College
• Sara McDonnell, Executive Vice-President, Hibernia College
• Dr. Nicholas Breakwell, Executive Dean, Hibernia College

1.     Lord David Triesman

Chairman, International Advisory Board, Hibernia College

Lord David Triesman has been involved with education, employment, regulations, treasury, security, business and innovation, trade and industry, transport and football over the span of his career.

Triesman first became a full-time union official at NATFHE in 1984. He was General Secretary of the Association of University Teachers trade union from 1993 to 2001 and the General Secretary of the Labour Party 2001 to 2003. He was made a Life Peer in January 2004 as Baron Triesman, of Tottenham in the London Borough of Haringey.

He was a member of various committees during the 80’s including the Home Office Committee on Prison Education, the Greater London Manpower Board, the Bett Inquiry into Higher Education, the Ruskin College Governors and was also the Chairman of the Burnham FHE Committee Teachers’ Side.

Over the last decade, Lord Triesman was a member of the Better Regulations Task Force and the HM Treasury Public Services Productivity Panel. In addition, he was the Government Minister for Education and Skills, Trade and Industry, Transport and International Development. Between 2005 and 2007, he held the position of Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Foreign Commonwealth Office) and Under-Secretary of State (Intellectual Property and Quality).

He was a Government Spokesperson for: Education and Skills 2004-05, Trade and Industry 2004-05, Transport 2004, International Development 2004-05; Government Whip 2004-05; Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Government Spokesperson 2004-07, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State 2005-07; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Intellectual Property and Quality) and Government Spokesperson, Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills 2007-08; Opposition Spokesperson for: Business, Innovation and Skills 2010-11, Foreign and Commonwealth Office 2011- present.

For a number of years he was a lecturer and union leader at South Bank Polytechnic (now London South Bank University). In 2008, he became the first independent Chairman of the Football Association. Currently, he also serves as the Opposition Spokesperson for Business, Innovation and Skills.

2.     Dean Kathleen McCartney

Dean of the Faculty of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Kathleen McCartney, the Gerald S. Lesser Professor in Early Childhood Development, was named Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2006. In collaboration with a dedicated faculty and administrative team, she has implemented a strategic plan that has resulted in the creation of two new degree programs, the doctorate in education leadership (Ed.L.D.), and a new interfaculty Ph.D. in education; a 25 percent growth in core faculty; a doubling of financial aid for Ed.M. students; a dramatic increase in fellowship support for doctoral students; and the establishment of a partner network with over 30 districts and non-profit organizations.

McCartney’s research program concerns early experience and development, and she has published more than 150 articles and chapters on child care, early childhood education, and poverty. She is a member of the NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, which summarized the results of their longitudinal study in Child Care and Child Development. She also co-edited Experience and Development, The Blackwell Handbook of Early Childhood Development, and Best Practices in Developmental Research Methods.

McCartney received her B.S. in psychology summa cum laude from Tufts University, where she now serves as a trustee, and her M.S. and Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Yale University. In 2012 she was inducted as a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and in 2009 she received the Distinguished Contribution Award from the Society for Research in Child Development. McCartney is also a Fellow of the American Education Research Association, the American Psychological Association, and the American Psychological Society.

Read more: http://www.gse.harvard.edu/directory/faculty/faculty-detail/#ixzz2AsSUHsAt

3.     Dr. Don Thornhill

Chairman, Hibernia College

A former top civil servant, Dr. Don Thornhill is now a consultant and adviser on strategy and policy to a number of leading Irish organisations.

Don is a member of the boards of a number of organisations in both the public and private sectors. His chairmanships include the National Competitiveness Council of Ireland, Hibernia College, the Ageing Well Network and The Fit for Work Coalition. He has recently been appointed chairman of an Inter-Departmental Expert Group to design a Property Tax.
He is also Deputy Chairperson of the Chartered Accountants Regulatory Board and a member of the boards of Forfás (Ireland’s statutory national policy advisory body for enterprise and science), the Irish Hospice Foundation, and of the Ageing Well Network.

Dr. Thornhill is former chairperson of the US/Ireland Fulbright Commission, the Irish Payments Services Organisation and of the INSPIRE interuniversity nanoscience consortium. Also he is a former Board member of the Irish Management Institute, the Irish Taxation Institute, Science Foundation Ireland and of the Digital Hub Agency.

During his career in the public service he was centrally involved in many of the transformational policy developments in Ireland in education and research and, earlier in his career, in tax administration. He played the key role in the development and roll out of the Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions (PRTLI).

In January 2005 Don completed a seven year term as Executive Chairman of the Higher Education Authority (HEA). Prior to his appointment to the HEA he was Secretary General of the Department of Education and Science from 1993 to 1998. He also worked in the Irish Revenue Commissioners, the Departments of Foreign Affairs and Finance and in the Unilever group of companies.

Don is a graduate of University College Dublin (B.Sc. and Ph.D. (Chemistry)) and Trinity College Dublin (M.Sc. (Econ)). He has been awarded an honorary doctorate of education by the National University of Ireland. During 1987 he was a Fulbright Scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC.

Dr. Thornhill is an elected member of the Royal Irish Academy and of the Irish Academy of Engineering. He was conferred with honorary life membership of the Royal Dublin Society for his services to Ireland.

4.     Professor Thomas Mitchell

Academic chairman, Hibernia College

As an academic and educator of international stature, Professor Mitchell brings a wide range of experience and abilities to the work of Hibernia College. He had a distinguished academic career in the United States at Cornell and Swarthmore, before being appointed to the Chair of Latin at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) in 1979. In 1991 he was elected Provost of TCD and led the college through an eventful period of large-scale expansion and development throughout the 1990s. Professor Mitchell has won wide recognition for his scholarly achievements as well as his academic leadership and has written extensively on many aspects of third-level education.

Professor Mitchell holds a B.A. and M.A., both with first class honours, from University College Galway and has two doctorates, from the University of Dublin and Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. He has also been awarded eight honorary doctorates by universities around the world.

5.     Dr. Sean M. Rowland

President, Hibernia College

Dr. Seán M. Rowland, President of Hibernia College, was born in Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland. Having attended St. Patrick’s College in Dublin, he taught at primary school level for five years before travelling to the US to attend Boston College. Here he was awarded a Masters Degree in Curriculum, Instruction and Administration. He then pursued and completed his Ph.D. in Curriculum Instruction and Administration (CIA) with a focus on educational finance within the CIA programme. Dr. Rowland also holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

While at Boston College, Dr. Rowland established and was appointed Executive Director of the Centre for Irish Management. His goals in creating the centre were to encourage economic development and create employment in Ireland through education, executive development and relationship building. Dr. Rowland also established the Irish Institute at Boston College, and, as Executive Director, worked extensively with young Irish professionals, political leaders and educators to promote Irish/US relations, provide upskilling in a variety of professional areas and contribute to job creation in Ireland.

In 2000, Dr. Rowland brought together his colleagues from the corporate, education and technological communities to create Hibernia College, Ireland’s first and only, accredited online third-level institution. The programme for which the college is currently best known is its Higher Diploma in Arts in Primary Education. Graduates from this course are now highly sought after by many schools around Ireland.

Under Dr. Rowland’s leadership, Hibernia College has also collaborated with Pfizer (the world’s largest research-based pharmaceutical company) to develop a Masters Degree programme in Pharmaceutical Medicine and more recently with the UK’s Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) to develop an online education programme for secondary school teachers in England. This programme in England has now expanded to multiple Universities across England. This collaboration is particularly exciting because it puts Hibernia College in the unique position of providing teacher education in Ireland and England.

Dr. Rowland is the current President of the Harvard Club of Ireland and is a member of Harvard University’s Littauer Society. He is also a member of the Dean’s Advisory Leadership Council at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, a member of the Harvard Faculty Club and an active alumnus of Boston College. In addition, Dr. Rowland is a member of the Institute of Directors, Ireland and of the Royal Dublin Society. He is on the advisory board of the Soul of Haiti Foundation and is a board member of the Irish Famine Commemoration Fund.

In 2008 Dr. Rowland won the Ernst and Young Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year award and in 2009 was named as one of the “100 greatest self-made Irish entrepreneurs” by Irish Entrepreneur magazine.

6.     Sara McDonnell

Executive Vice-President, Hibernia College

Sara was actively involved in the foundation of Hibernia College and brings extensive experience and expertise, in all areas of educational operations and administration, to her role as Executive Vice-President.

Prior to her work with Hibernia College, Sara held a number of positions at Boston College, initially in 1996 as research manager at the Centre for Irish Management. Her role there involved identifying market needs to be addressed by the college’s educational and professional programmes. She played a leading role in the design, development and delivery of these programmes. Sara became programme director for Boston College in Ireland in 1997 and was instrumental in the successful delivery of the institute’s programming in areas including international governance, domestic policy, leadership, tourism management and business development.

Sara has a B.A. Mod (Hons) in Natural Science from Trinity College Dublin and holds postgraduate and professional qualifications in marketing, training and development.

7.     Dr. Nicholas Breakwell

Executive Dean, Hibernia College

Dr. Nicholas Breakwell is the Executive Dean at Hibernia College with overall responsibility for teaching and learning strategy and e-learning infrastructure. He has been responsible for the development of the next-generation learning tools that now power all Hibernia College online programmes. Supporting this role, he has consulted widely with international experts in e-learning to bring best international practice to Hibernia’s e-learning strategy.

Dr. Breakwell has a B.Sc. in Psychology and a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Birmingham. He also spent five years in the internationally respected neuroscience laboratory of Professor Roger Anwyl at Trinity College Dublin, publishing numerous research papers in leading science journals. During this time, Dr. Breakwell also worked for the Open University where he gained extensive experience of studying and teaching from a distance.

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Location:        Dublin office

Reports to:     Director of Student Experience

Contract:        One year fixed

Job Purpose:    The role of the Programme Administrator, Office of Academic Affairs is to facilitate the successful running of the student experience on the Masters programmes (including certificate and modular students), the Undergraduate suite of programmes and to provide administrative support within the programme administration team for all programmes.

Responsibilities:

Registration
•    Assists with the preparation of and registration at induction sessions
•    Assist admissions team with retrieving late registration documentation

Programme Administration
•    Ensure students are well supported throughout the programme
•    First point of call for non-academic student queries
•    Communicate regularly with students and ensure students have clear guidelines and instruction through the lifecycle of the programme
•    Work closely with the Programme Manager, Director of Student Experience and Programme Director to ensure the smooth and successful running of the programme/s
•    Provide administrative support in the coordination of the programme
•    Assist in the organisation of onsite and online tutorials and modules  – coordinating tutors and venues
•    Prepare attendance sheets and monitor online and onsite attendance
•    Keep accurate student records

Programme Administration Team
•    Assist the Programme Administration team in the organization and coordination of Teaching Practice blocks and Gaeltacht courses
•    Assist in the booking of onsite venues for all programmes (covering some tasks of Resources Manager while on maternity leave)
•    Performs any other reasonable duty associated to the role assigned

Required Skills and Experience
•    Excellent administrative and organisational skills
•    Excellent communication skills
•    Strong attention to detail
•    Self-starter with an ability to work on their own initiative
•    Excellent team player

Candidates should submit a cover letter together with a full CV to careers@hiberniacollege.net .

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Each presentation provided many issues for debate and discussion as was evident by the energising buzz around the conference room.

Professor Otmar Gassner from the University College of Teacher Education in Vorarlberg, Austria, presented research evidence from his experience of Initial Teacher Training in Austria. He explained that in the Austrian Initial Teacher Training structure the universities and colleges have on-campus schools specifically used for teaching practice, in addition to local partnership schools. One of the key findings from this research was the way in which technology enhanced the quality of feedback provided to the student teacher by the HEI placement tutor, co-operating teacher and mentor. He discussed how students are peer reviewed whereby in addition to tutors and mentors, students observe and critique each other during teaching practice. He highlighted how in the traditional face-to-face feedback model reviewers were less honest in their responses to the student and the feedback itself lacked depth. When asked to upload their feedback digitally, in isolation of the group, it was found that everyone involved in the process were more honest and more thought and consideration was given to the issues to be addressed. This in turn led to a much richer learning experience for the student and also led to identifying the quality of feedback that best supported a student teacher.

Paula Gladwin, Director of Programmes Hibernia College UK, and Liam Cullinan, Deputy Head teacher from Perry Beeches, jointly prepared and delivered a highly entertaining and enthusiastic presentation on the structure and success of UK secondary initial teacher training, specifically how it worked in Perry Beaches-The Academy in Birmingham.

In partnership with Hibernia College Perry Beeches has used teacher education as part of a strategic drive for school improvement. Both Liam and Paula outlined the roles and responsibilities for each partner. Schools took on an integral role in the practical training of student teachers which is distinctly different to the model used in Ireland. One of the most significant benefits of this partnership as reported by Liam was the way in which it improved the quality of teaching and learning for all members of the school community.

In the afternoon session four women, Dr Mairín Glenn, Dr Bernie Sullivan, Dr Caitriona McDonagh and Dr Mary Roche shared their living theory of developing learning communities within a Higher Education Institution/School partnership framework. Their research – experientially and evidentially based – demonstrated that this kind of partnership would contribute to developing ‘researchly’ dispositions across all participants in the partnership.

Taken together the three presentations raised the following themes and questions for those attending the conference:

•     Relationships built on trust are key to developing meaningful partnerships and co-constructing roles and responsibilities to support trusting relationships;
•   The issue of equity for different participants in the partnership is complex and contestable especially where the HEI tutor is the only person to grade a student;
• School-HEI partnerships in teacher education have the potential to support and facilitate learning communities in a way that is sustainable; in adopting an enquiry and  action-research approach to the process this can enable teacher education to be both research informed and research informing;
• An overarching theme emerging from the conference was the importance of providing opportunities across the partnership members to articulate their personal values at given points in the process.

One of the main events during the day was Rob O’Neill’s, Hibernia College ICT Manager, demonstration of the Google Nexus 7 tablet which will be given to schools who partner with Hibernia College for student teacher placements. This tablet will allow the co-operating teacher to access a range of resources on the College’s online learning management system (HELMS) such as course content and a very extensive online library. It will also allow the co-operating teacher to download and comment on a student teacher’s lesson during the observation of that lesson.

In keeping with Hibernia College’s interactive approach, the morning section of the conference was live streamed via our website and we also engaged with queries via Twitter.

Overall the day provided a welcome opportunity for the teaching and learning community at Hibernia College to share views and ideas. It was also an opportunity to reflect on current research evidence, both national and international relating to the factors that contribute to successful school-HEI partnerships.

Thank you to everybody who helped make the conference such a positive learning and social occasion. We envisage that this will be the first of several research conferences hosted by Hibernia College.

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Tuition support for University of London programmes is available starting in January 2013 at a rate of £495 per module. This includes dedicated tutors providing online support, synchronous online tutorials, and a place on the intensive 4-week revision programme at the end of the course.

University of London modules for which Hibernia currently provides tuition:

Business and Management Modules:
•    MN1107 Introduction to Business and Management
•    EC1002 Introduction to Economics
•    ST104A Statistics 1
•    MT105A Maths 1
•    SC1021 Principles of Sociology
•    AC3059 Financial Management
•    MN3075 Human Resource Management
•    MN3141 Principles of Marketing

Computing and information Systems and Creative Computing Modules:
•    102 Mathematics for Computing
•    109 Introduction to Java and Object-Oriented Programming
•    110 Introduction to Computing and the Internet
•    108 Information Systems: Foundations of e-Business
•    112 Creative Computing 1: Image, Sound, Motion

If you would like more information on the options available, please contact us contact us at info@hiberniacollege.net or +353 (0)1 661 0168.

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