Commercial magazine uses school children to target parents
September 11, 2008 by niallsmyth · Leave a Comment
A new commercial magazine, produced by the “market-leading family media group” called Ireland4kids has been launched in the Republic of Ireland, aimed at “parents of primary school-aged children “and aiming “to provide parents with useful information on education, health, parenting, entertainment and fun things to do for all the family”.
Awards for Commercial-Free Schools.
September 8, 2008 by Joe Fogarty · Leave a Comment
CCFE and INTO certify Ireland’s first Commercial-Free Schools.
At a ceremony in the Teachers’ Club, Dublin on Friday 26th September, 13 primary schools from throughout Ireland were honoured and recognised for their stance in relation to commercial presentations in school. Pictured here is Miriam Jenkinson, Principal St. Patrick’s JNS, Skerries, Co. Dublin
Time for some action on 5th Nov!
August 19, 2008 by Mark Conroy · Leave a Comment
This is an email I received from the Facebook group International Students Movement for Free and Emancipating Education. It’s a call for action against the commercialisation of education. I’m reprinting it here in full.
Mark Conroy
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Dear activists and members of this group!
Thanks for joining this movement and inviting others to do so!
As some of you might know already, there is an “International Day of Action against the Commercialization of Education” in the making.
(I just published the Call in the Forum of this group - it can be discussed there!)
The official Call for this Day has been published in English, French and German now and can be accessed via the following links.
English: http://fading-hope.blog-city.com/international_call_for_an_international_day_of_action_again.htm
