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Mernagh Niamh
Senior Inspector, Ministry of Education and Science, Ireland.
Niamh Mernagh is a Senior Inspector in the Department of Education and Science (www.education.ie) in Ireland taking special responsibility for lifelong learning, vocational education and training issues and the development of new educational and vocational guidance systems. A key example of new services developed under her aegis is the Adult Education Guidance Initiative (http://www.ncge.ie/adult_guidance.htm ).
She has represented Ireland in various international duties, including participation in two recent European Commission groups:
• EU Objectives Group G: Open Learning environment, active citizenship, equal opportunities and social cohesion
• Teachers and Trainers in VET Focus Group, since 2005. This group has organized a number of Peer Learning Activities (PLAs) in member states. In 2005, in conjunction with the EU Niamh organised a PLA in Dublin that took as its theme Continual Profession Development for Teachers, which was attended by twenty participants from twelve member states.
Since the early 1990s, Niamh has participated in a number of CEDEFOP study visits to various member states and co-operated in 2006 with CEDEFOP in the development of the EU dedicated website for focus groups.
Niamh’s career has also included twenty years as a teacher and a guidance counsellor within the vocational education system in Ireland. For seven years she lectured in university on career guidance, psychology and education, was the co-ordinator of a post-graduate training programme for guidance counsellors and led the development of a new programme in guidance skills for VET trainers. While seconded to an experimental area development project, Niamh participated in the development of innovative VET and career guidance approaches for unemployed adults.
Niamh Mernagh has a BA (1972), a Higher Diploma in Education (1973), a Higher Diploma in Career Guidance (1993) and a Masters Degree (Master of Guidance and Counselling, 1996).
Memberships:
A chartered member of the (Irish) Institute of Guidance Counsellors (IGC), a member of the International Association of Educational & Vocational Guidance (I.A.E.V.G.) and a certified Reality Therapist.
Publications
Niamh has written or co-authored many publications, including :
• Planning a School Guidance Programme (NCGE 2004) www.ncge.ie
• Guidelines for second level schools on the implications of Section 9c of Education Act 1998, relating to students’ access to appropriate guidance (Department of Education and Science 2005) www.education.ie
• 1998. Investigating Therapy Interventions with Young People at risk of early school leaving for the Northside Partnership (an Area Development Company).
• 1995-1996. Developing a model of Guidance & Vocational Counselling for Unemployed Irish Adults, as Masters thesis.
• 1973 – 1988. Curriculum Development Unit of Trinity College. Researched and co-wrote: The Rising Tide, The Wasting World, The Low Lands of Holland. Also prepared for publication many texts for Vocational Preparation and Training (VPT) programmes.
She has represented Ireland in various international duties, including participation in two recent European Commission groups:
• EU Objectives Group G: Open Learning environment, active citizenship, equal opportunities and social cohesion
• Teachers and Trainers in VET Focus Group, since 2005. This group has organized a number of Peer Learning Activities (PLAs) in member states. In 2005, in conjunction with the EU Niamh organised a PLA in Dublin that took as its theme Continual Profession Development for Teachers, which was attended by twenty participants from twelve member states.
Since the early 1990s, Niamh has participated in a number of CEDEFOP study visits to various member states and co-operated in 2006 with CEDEFOP in the development of the EU dedicated website for focus groups.
Niamh’s career has also included twenty years as a teacher and a guidance counsellor within the vocational education system in Ireland. For seven years she lectured in university on career guidance, psychology and education, was the co-ordinator of a post-graduate training programme for guidance counsellors and led the development of a new programme in guidance skills for VET trainers. While seconded to an experimental area development project, Niamh participated in the development of innovative VET and career guidance approaches for unemployed adults.
Niamh Mernagh has a BA (1972), a Higher Diploma in Education (1973), a Higher Diploma in Career Guidance (1993) and a Masters Degree (Master of Guidance and Counselling, 1996).
Memberships:
A chartered member of the (Irish) Institute of Guidance Counsellors (IGC), a member of the International Association of Educational & Vocational Guidance (I.A.E.V.G.) and a certified Reality Therapist.
Publications
Niamh has written or co-authored many publications, including :
• Planning a School Guidance Programme (NCGE 2004) www.ncge.ie
• Guidelines for second level schools on the implications of Section 9c of Education Act 1998, relating to students’ access to appropriate guidance (Department of Education and Science 2005) www.education.ie
• 1998. Investigating Therapy Interventions with Young People at risk of early school leaving for the Northside Partnership (an Area Development Company).
• 1995-1996. Developing a model of Guidance & Vocational Counselling for Unemployed Irish Adults, as Masters thesis.
• 1973 – 1988. Curriculum Development Unit of Trinity College. Researched and co-wrote: The Rising Tide, The Wasting World, The Low Lands of Holland. Also prepared for publication many texts for Vocational Preparation and Training (VPT) programmes.