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Leaving Certificate Geography Teachers' Resource Pack
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has launched a resource pack for Leaving Cert geography teachers and students, providing video and written materials for teaching the environmental components of the subject.

The new resource pack is based entirely on current Irish issues, bringing in more than 20 case studies from the housing boom, waste issues and traffic congestion to sustainable tourism, renewable energy and economic development.

There are six themed units in the pack, each based around video clips from the EPA-sponsored television series EcoEye and The State We're In.The new geography syllabus counts among its aims the promotion of environmental protection, active citizenship and informed participation, and seeks to provide students with an interesting and enjoyable experience and to instil in them a love for their environment. While staying close to the aims and topics of the syllabus, the pack encourages creative thinking and debate, and allows for controversial and difficult issues to be discussed.

The resource pack is being distributed to all geography teachers via in-service training, ensuring all geography teachers will receive a copy. It is available in both English and Irish. The pack is also available on the EPA website at: http://www.epa.ie/Education/SecondLevelSchools/LeavingCertificateGeographyPack/

Further information from Niamh Leahy, EPA media relations office. Tel: 053-70770

Open Day at NUI Galway

NUI Galway's annual open day takes place on Thursday, December 1st from 9am to 3pm. Academic staff from the university's 52 departments will be available to answer queries and provide detailed subject and course information. On arrival, students should go to the assembly point in the Quadrangle Building.

More information from Máire Mhic Uidhir. Tel: 091-493361 /087-2986592 . E-mail: maire.mhicuidhir@nuigalway.ie

Day for Parents of Children with Autism

"Look into my eyes!" is a day of activities for parents of children on the autism spectrum. To be held on Saturday, December, 3rd from 9am to 4pm at Monkstown Community Centre, Monkstown Grove, Co Dublin, the goal of this day is to celebrate the young child's relationships and to explore communication opportunities to encourage real connection through shared attention, engagement and continuous back and forth interaction with your child.

A number of parents will share activities and strategies they have found helpful with their child, and there will be opportunity for positive supportive networking. The day is facilitated by Mari Caulfield, speech and language therapist. For more information tel: 01-2020489. E-mail: info@eli-ireland.com

Last Lecture Series at University College Cork

UCC Faculty of Science presents a lecture entitled After Moore's Law, Where Next? by Dr Hans Mulder, associate director of Intel Research, Intel, UK tomorrow at 8pm in Boole Lecture Theatre 4, UCC. Admission is free and all are welcome.

Open Day at Ballyfermot College of Further Education

The open day at Ballyfermot College of Further Education (BCFE) will take place on Friday, December 2nd from 9.30am to 4pm. BCFE offers courses in art and graphics, animation, television and film, multimedia, computer games development, business, travel and reception, music - performance, management and sound, social care, engineering and media. The college BCFE runs two honours degree programmes - BA (hons) in animation, validated by the University of Dundee, and BA (hons) in media production and management, validated by Dublin City University.

Hunt Museum Lunchtime Lecture

Angels in Art is the title of a lecture by Ida Cahill to be held at the Limerick museum on Tuesday, December 6th at 1pm. The lecture will examine the belief and depiction of sometimes-winged messengers from another world and includes a brief overview of such depictions from earliest times to the present. All welcome.

Photographic Exhibition in NUI Galway

Regeneration: The West of Ireland 1892 - 1914 is a photographic exhibition depicting life in the west of Ireland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The exhibition takes place in the James Hardiman Library, NUI Galway until Friday, December 16th and is a joint event with the National Photographic Archive.

Opening hours are from Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 10pm, Saturday, 8.30am to 5.30pm and Sunday, 10.00am to 5.30pm

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