Next CEN Meeting - Date for your Diary!
Niamho
Happy New Year!
Since the last meeting we have been working to ensure that community
education is on the political agenda by creating the new Community
Education Network manifesto. Collectively we can work together to
raise the voice of the sector and lobby.
The next meeting of the Network is Tuesday 26th January at 9.45am
(until 2pm) in the Carmichael Centre, Dublin 7. The agenda is on the
our website: http://www.aontas.com/commed/networkcen.html
This meeting will focus on: ‘Collective action and partnership work
for progressing community education’. As part of this we will have the
Principal Officer from the Further Education Section of the Department
of Education and Science, Seamus Hempenstall providing an input. In
order to utilize our time fully we would ask you to propose 1 question
to Seamus regarding the Department either in terms of how it
functions, the place of community education or how we can become
effective partners for progressing community education.
Please send your question to me by Wednesday 20th January.
This is a great opportunity to link in with the Department of
Education and Science and we hope that you can make this important
meeting.
Please book your place by Friday 22nd January – only those booked can
attend as space is limited.
Remember all information and past reports are on the website:
http://www.aontas.com/commed/networkcen.html
Join the online forum today if you haven’t done so already:
http://groups.google.ie/group/aontas-community-education-network
Looking forward to working with you in 2010.
Best regards
Niamh
Marie Keegan
Happy New Year to you. Unfortunately I am unable to attend the Network
Meeting.
Kind regards
Marie
Niamho
Reminder!
The next meeting of the Network is Tuesday 26th January at 9.45am
(until 2pm) in the Carmichael Centre, Dublin 7. The agenda is on the
our website: http://www.aontas.com/commed/networkcen.html
Please send your question that you would like to pose to Seamus
Hempenstall as soon as possible.
Please book your place by Friday 22nd January
Hope to see you there.
All the best
Niamh
Sharon Kennedy
Happy New Year and best wishes to you all for 2010!!
im not sure if io can attaend the network but will do my best. I clicke on
the link below but cant fidn the agenda... is it just me???
sharon
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The link in the previous email is the general one for the CEN section of the
website. The meetings details are usually under the CEN meetings sub-menu.
Please find the agenda here:
http://www.aontas.com/download/pdf/agenda_cen_26110.pdf
Kind regards,
Eleonora
Sharon Kennedy
would it be possible for us to get some small space at the CEN network
meeting to support a strategy of the National Community DEvelopment Forum
( NCDF)
Pobal are holding a conference on Life Long Learning, the last of three
regional ones, in the Royal Hospital in Kilmainham in the near future ( i
dont know the dates)
They have issued an invitation for the NCDF Forum to attend.
We are suggessting that we take the same approach to this conference that we
as a forum took to the National Economic and Social Forum before Christmas.
On that occassion a number of people registered for the Conference who were
in support of CDP issues and strcutures.
The forum presented a letter to the chairperson on the day re cuts to CDPs
etc and all those who attended the workshops carried the same message.
The initiative had some small success becasue Maureen Gaffney then put the
Minister under pressure about what was happening resulting in a national
meeting for CDP's with the Department.
The action we are propsoing to take is send conference details to all CDP' s
nationally and Forum members -and a broader group such as CEN.
People to register and make a contribution to the workshops explicitly
stating that Life Long Learning cannot be successful without the
contribution of CDPs.
I can provide more info as I get it in , but it is part fo the NCDF lobbying
starategy that we hope CEN members could support.
Sharon
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Sharon Kennedy
when I send an email to you it automtically comes back to my inbox?????
Niamh O'Reilly
I think that is a great idea, the CEN is a space to engage in lobbying and you have proposed a perfect mechanism for this.
What we have done with the agenda is to allow participants guide the discussion. I am very concious that there are many issues facing the sector and therefore I didn't not want to be too perscriptive with the agenda.
In the morning sesion:
We will have a brainstorming session that will look at getting participants to identify what they want to discuss. I will pull together the outcomes of the brainstorming and created themed discussion groups at 11.20 -12.15. One of those could be on lobbying for CDPs at the Pobal conference.
Also, in the sharing knowledge of lobbying session at 10.35 there is also a space to discuss what mechanisms work for lobbying. This may feed into the thinking for that session at 11.20.
Thanks a million for your contribution and look forward to seeing you on the 26th.
All the best
Niamh