Measuring Education

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The Current affairs podcast presented by William Campbell (right) goes back to school.

William writes:

Billy Bragg sang ‘not everything that counts can be counted’, but does Ireland fail to measure the outcomes of its education system so that we have no idea of the quality of the schooling that our kids are getting?

And if we did start to measure more rigorously, could that have a negative effect? I talk to Dr Geraldine Mooney Simmie (above left), a senior lecturer in education and acting director of EPI*STEM at the University of Limerick.

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