ST PATRICK’S COLLEGE DRUMCONDRA

 BEYOND 2000

STRATEGIC PLAN 1999 - 2004

CONTENTS

• Introduction

• Mission

• Historical Development

• Market Position

• Strategic Tracks and Future Goals

• Future Position

INTRODUCTION

• Leading position in the education of primary teachers in Ireland

• 1993: a College of Dublin City University

• Agreement for Institutional Linkage maintained its identity

• & preserved its Catholic ethos

• Education of primary teachers general and special

• Emergence of programmes in the humanities

• Development of postgraduate and continuing education programmes

MISSION

• St Patrick’s College Drumcondra

• a College of Dublin City University

• a Catholic College for the education of primary school teachers

• to enhance its role in teacher education both general and special

• to provide degrees in the humanities

• to promote academic research

• to develop postgraduate studies

• while fostering excellence in all its activities

The College is committed

• to creating a community of learning

• in which Catholic religious values and equity are promoted

• the centrality of the student maintained

The College Community shall

• view the care and education of children as paramount

• foster the Irish language • cultivate a local, national and

international awareness • protect and enhance the physical and

social environment for students and staff

HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT

• Established in 1875

• Initially at 1 & 2 Drumcondra Road

• Moved to Belvedere House in 1883

• Administration in the care of the Vincentian fathers until 1999

• Alma mater for many Irish primary teachers

• Graduates have made a distinguished contribution to the life of the country

• Originally an all-male College

• Female students admitted in 1971

• Initially a one-year programme

• Before long this was replaced by a two-year course

• Links with the Catholic University were always close

• Eoin MacNeill appointed professor of Irish, 1896

1981/82 1989/90 1996/97 1997/98 1998/99 1999/2000

B.Ed 802 593 531 616 733 921B.A. ~~ ~~ 403 392 388 366Pg Diploma 49 45 50 49 100 101M.A. ~~ ~~ ~~ 38 37 40M.Ed ~~ ~~ ~~ 48 60 63PhD ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ 2Spec Ed Dip 39 21 25 25 25 24Rem Ed Cert 25 24 25 25 25 25Total Students 890 659 984 1,143 1,368 1,542