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1. 1. www.educatetogether.com

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   Published on: 5/7/2008   Last Visited: 7/20/2008

   Parents are encouraged by the positive results of an extensive feasibility study carried out by Trinity College Dublin, as well as by commments made recently by Tom Collins, Professor of Education at NUI Maynooth.Professor Collins, speaking at the Educate Together Principals' Conference in Port Laoise last month, welcomed the news that Educate Together was entering second-level education, saying that he felt that Educate Together had a significant contribution to make at this level.

2. 2. www.cinews.co.uk

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   Published on: 11/13/2007   Last Visited: 11/13/2007

   Prof Tom Collins, head of education development at NUI Maynooth, said a failure was happening in the education world, "but it's primarily a failure that's happening within the family".
   
   He said teachers were telling him that children no longer knew how to use their hands because they spent so much time on electronic gadgets.
   
   Teenagers were spending an average 18 hours a week watching television, generally alone, and if they were not doing this, they were often on the Bebo website, he said.
   
   "I have this image that Irish teenagers, when they get off their electronic gadgetry, are adjourning to their bedrooms to look at TV alone," he said.
   
   The "overwhelming significance" of the Leaving Cert meant teachers were always rushing children towards the next stage, instead of "meeting them where they are", he said.

3. 3. DOM Press Release

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   Published on: 3/24/2006   Last Visited: 2/16/2008

   Padraic White, former Chief Executive of the Industrial Development Agency and author of the De-commissioning Report on the Irish Whitefish Fleet, Prof. Tom Collins, chair of the National Rural Water Monitoring Committee and John Malone, a former Secretary General of the Department of Agriculture and Food.
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   Prof. Tom CollinsProfessor Tom Collins is Head of the Education Department at NUI, Maynooth.Prior to that he was Director of the Dundalk Institute of Technology.Professor Collins has written extensively on the theme of participatory development and has been active in local development work for many years.He is a member of the Board of Pobal, the Irish local development agency, and is chair of the National Rural Water Monitoring Committee.