Follow the link below to the slides I used in a presentation last week to the Cork Society of Chartered Accountants Ireland . It was their Annual Practice Day Conference for 2010. Practice Day Presentation 2010
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HESG Summer 2010 Conference in Cork
The Health Economists´ Study Group is a UK organisation for people working in Health Economics. However, the group’s summer conference is being hosted here in University College Cork this summer by the Health Economics Group in the Department of Economics. This will be the first time the conference has been held in Ireland. The website for the conference [...]
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A personal take on grade inflation
The Irish Times carries another front page report on grade inflation in the Irish education sector, citing an unpublished internal TCD study. The statistics presented do seem to indicate a remarkable rise in the percentages of higher grades at third level. This is taken as evidence of grade inflation (I hate the phrase ‘dumbing down’). [...]
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Grade inflation
The Irish Times reports a worried Minister for Education is going to investigate the possibility of grade inflation in Irish education. One wonders if the Minister is drawing on the same number of conversations (2) that he did when suggesting lecturers teach too few hours. The article states It is widely expected that the reviews [...]
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