Irish Travellers Education at Traveling

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Irish Travellers Education. Lizzy finished sixth form last year, while caitlin is now studying hair and beauty at college. However, according to the 2016 census, just 0.5% of irish travellers continue onto higher education and graduate with a qualification.

Mincéirs Irish Travellers by JosephPhilippe Bevillard
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However, according to the 2016 census, just 0.5% of irish travellers continue onto higher education and graduate with a qualification. A consequence of poor educational attainment is a high unemployment rate, which was 80.2% among the traveller community in 2016 (cso, 2016). Our main focus is the interrelation between constructions of traveller identities, by the dominant society and by themselves, and the implications for policy and professional development in formal education.

Mincéirs Irish Travellers by JosephPhilippe Bevillard

Travellers in education traveller’s educational status is considerably lower than that of their settled peers. Educational needs (sen), and are four times more likely than any other group to be excluded from school as a result of their behaviour (dfes, 2005; In this chapter we briefl y outline the population profi le of travellers in irish society and in education; There is an “overwhelming need” for the education system to “prove its relevance” to travellers, a report on the community in co wexford finds.