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Editorial
Walsh, J, McCoy, S., Seery, A. and Conway, P.F.
2014
July
Editorial: Investment in Education and the intractability of inequality [Special Issue], Irish Educational Studies, 33, 2
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Inequality, investment in education, Ireland

Investment in Education and the intractability of inequality

Investment in Education, initiated in 1962 and published in 1965, has been described as probably the foundation documentof modern Irish education (Clancy 1996) and a landmark both in the national and international memory[Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) 1991]. Dr. Patrick Hillery, the Minister forEducation, who commissioned the report, recalled 30 years later that there were no real ideas before the OECD project’ – a harsh but largely justifiable commentary on the entrenched conservatism of political and educational elites for the previous generation. Investment was the product of a pilot study initiated by


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33, 2
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03323315.2014.924330#.VG8o9UvVtFw
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10.1080/03323315.2014.924330
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