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The Hard Shoulder

The Hard Shoulder with Kieran Cuddihy on Newstalk. Join Kieran every weekday afternoon from 4-7pm for a round-up of the day’s events, interviews with the people at the centre of the stories – and a bit of craic along the way. Listen and subscribe to The Hard Shoulder on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Spotify.  Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.   You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by adding the Newstalk skill and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'.

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"There needs to be more practical teaching." Ireland needs to modernise its ‘20th-century’ system.

Today in the Irish Times the OECD’s Director of education Andreas Schleicher says Ireland needs to modernise its ‘20th-century’ system. And there is a 'Zero correlation' between quality of tuition and class size, according to the top educator. Henry McKean has been speaking to parents, teachers and students and asked does this German expert advising the Irish Government have a point? Do we need to change the way we teach our children?