Intercultural Education Strategy

The then Minister of State for Integration, Conor Lenihan, T.D. launched the process for developing an intercultural education strategy at a conference on 1 October 2008. Copies of the Minister’s speech and the presentations made at the conference are available on the Newcomers page of the website of the Department of Education and Skills.

The then Department of Education and Science, which is now the Department of Education and Skills, consulted extensively on the development of the intercultural education strategy through a series of sectoral meetings, which were attended by over 200 delegates. There were also over 50 written submissions forwarded to the Department.

There were several research projects which informed the Strategy. They are:

1. The ESRI review of newcomer students in primary and post- primary schools- published 03/06/2009
2. The evaluation of EAL provision in primary and post- primary schools by the Inspectorate of the former Department of Education and Science (now the Department of Education and Skills), which was published in Autumn 2009
3. The OECD’s comparative review of migrant education - review of migrant education in Ireland published December 2009
4. A value for money review of EAL provision- published Autumn 2009

Please see the "Resources" section for further information.

The strategy was launched on 16th September 2010. The research findings and the responses to the consultation process provided the evidence based data required to prepare the strategy.

The appendices to the strategy are available here.

^ Back to top