Browsing The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 30, No. 3, July, 1999 by Title

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    • Educational inequalities among school leavers in Ireland 1979-1994 

      Smyth, Emer (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1999)
      The extent to which inequalities in educational outcomes persist in modern Ireland has been the subject of much debate. This paper investigates whether the rapid expansion in educational participation rates over the 1980s ...

    • Gender equity as policy paradigm in the Irish educational policy process 

      O'Sullivan, Denis (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1999)
      The construct of policy paradigm is used to analyse how the proposition that Irish education is a gendered phenomenon has been conceptualized, communicated, reflected in educational policy and acted upon in practice. ...

    • Literacy and education in Ireland 

      Denny, Kevin; Harmon, Colm; McMahon, Doreen; Redmond, Sandra (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1999)
      Recent media attention has focused on the low ranking of Ireland in a major international study on literacy. In this paper we examine the dataset used in these studies to consider the reason behind the low ranking. We find ...