ST PATRICK’S COLLEGE DRUMCONDRA BEYOND 2000 STRATEGIC PLAN 1999 - 2004.
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CONTENTS
• Introduction
• Mission
• Historical Development
• Market Position
• Strategic Tracks and Future Goals
• Future Position
INTRODUCTION
• Leading position in the education of primary teachers in Ireland
• 1993: a College of Dublin City University
• Agreement for Institutional Linkage maintained its identity
• & preserved its Catholic ethos
• Education of primary teachers general and special
• Emergence of programmes in the humanities
• Development of postgraduate and continuing education programmes
MISSION
• St Patrick’s College Drumcondra
• a College of Dublin City University
• a Catholic College for the education of primary school teachers
• to enhance its role in teacher education both general and special
• to provide degrees in the humanities
• to promote academic research
• to develop postgraduate studies
• while fostering excellence in all its activities
The College is committed
• to creating a community of learning
• in which Catholic religious values and equity are promoted
• the centrality of the student maintained
The College Community shall
• view the care and education of children as paramount
• foster the Irish language • cultivate a local, national and
international awareness • protect and enhance the physical and
social environment for students and staff
HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT
• Established in 1875
• Initially at 1 & 2 Drumcondra Road
• Moved to Belvedere House in 1883
• Administration in the care of the Vincentian fathers until 1999
• Alma mater for many Irish primary teachers
• Graduates have made a distinguished contribution to the life of the country
• Originally an all-male College
• Female students admitted in 1971
• Initially a one-year programme
• Before long this was replaced by a two-year course
• Links with the Catholic University were always close
• Eoin MacNeill appointed professor of Irish, 1896
1981/82 1989/90 1996/97 1997/98 1998/99 1999/2000
B.Ed 802 593 531 616 733 921B.A. ~~ ~~ 403 392 388 366Pg Diploma 49 45 50 49 100 101M.A. ~~ ~~ ~~ 38 37 40M.Ed ~~ ~~ ~~ 48 60 63PhD ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ 2Spec Ed Dip 39 21 25 25 25 24Rem Ed Cert 25 24 25 25 25 25Total Students 890 659 984 1,143 1,368 1,542