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Anyone get funded for virtual secondary education?

  • 16-08-2013 12:05am
    #1
    kangaroo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 651 ✭✭✭


    For some young people/teenagers, attending school may not be possible due to their health problems. The group of individuals I'm most familiar are people with ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (I help run, as a volunteer, a patient organisation for this condition and deal with enquiries so would like to know the state of play). Some people with ME/CFS can go to school, but some find it difficult or impossible.

    In the UK, I have heard of students getting funded to be taught using virtual education. An example of such education/virtual school can be seen in this video from the Guardian website from today:
    http://www.theguardian.com/education/video/2013/aug/15/how-i-got-my-a-levels-at-a-virtual-school-video

    I was just wondering have any/many Irish people managed to get funding or alternatively have many got turned down?

    Also, I threw this out on an ME forum earlier today and one person said the school was going to stream from its classroom e.g. using Skype. This isn't necessarily ideal but might have a value in some circumstances e.g. if a person was normally going in (and so wasn't signed up with another education provider), but then wasn't well enough some days to go in. Has anyone been offered this? Or alternatively, tried to get it and was turned down?

    Thanks.


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  • #2
    kangaroo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 651 ✭✭✭kangaroo


    I've heard from one parent that after a long battle, they finally agreed to do a 3 month trial for 3 subjects, then (I.e. after letting him do it for three months) decided it was too expensive. £40 sterling per subject per wk.

    ST£40 is expensive, but then home tuition (for example) is expensive also (any idea of the rates the Irish Dept of Education will pay?)


  • #3
    kangaroo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 651 ✭✭✭kangaroo


    Here's one scheme I've just become aware of. Anyone know of any others?
    iScoil: A virtual school for a new class of student

    Pupils aged 13-16 for whom mainstream school hasn’t worked out can join online education tool iScoil, which is tailored to individual students’ interests and needs
    http://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/iscoil-a-virtual-school-for-a-new-class-of-student-1.2393180


  • #4
    livemusic4life
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 394 ✭✭livemusic4life


    kangaroo wrote: »
    Here's one scheme I've just become aware of. Anyone know of any others?

    If they were smart they could do recorded lessons for students to view on line, in their own time, covering all elements of the syllabus. They could nearly be recorded in classes and there would be minimal cost or disruption. Ireland is so backwards.


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