proceedings of conference held in NUI, Galway, 8th/9th November, 2003
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Batt, Vivienne > (ed.)
- Creator
- Fhaoláin, Sinéad Ní > (ed.)
- Creator
- Pelan, Rebecca > (ed.)
- Creator
- O'Riordan, Jacqui > (intr.)
- Contributor
- Hill, Myrtle
- Publish Year
- 2003
- Shelfmark
- digitaal
- Thesaurus
- hoger onderwijs, onderwijsinstellingen, gender mainstreaming, wetenschappelijke beroepen, glazen plafond, genderbudgeting, identiteit, ICT, mannen, Ierland, Uganda, congrespaper, statistiek
- Description
- A collection of papers presented at the conference 'Gender matters in higher education', that covers a range of topics and highlights the diverse ways that gender impacts on areas such as teaching, career development, policy and practice as well as detailing initiatives that seek to redress obstacles and open pathways to change. Consists of the following contributions: Faculty women: making our mark.... / Pat O'Connor : Study of need/demand for flexible training at SHOs (SHO) level for mothers in Irish medicine / Brídín Cannon : ICT as a tool to improve the gender balance in engineering education / Ivan S. Gibson : Gender issues in undergraduate computing / Averil Meehan : Nurses and degree studies through distance education / Ann Wickham : Moving mountains: when outreach education works / Mary O'Reilly-De Brún : A stranger in my community / Eve Phillips : Gender budgeting in universities of Uganda: a reality or a myth? / David Kahundha Muhwezi : The impact of higher education on the personal lives of mature students / Cora Cregan : Daring to dream: barriers and possibilities for men returning to education from a long-term unemployed background / Andrew Doherty : Gender imbalance in engineering education / Laura Sullivan, Martha Burton and Lucy McAuley : The work of the Gender Equality Unit / Rhona McSweeney : The Queen's University gender initiative / Myrtle Hill