
GET AHEAD 's emails have been down since Friday, so apologies if I haven't gotten back to you. With luck, they'll be back tomorrow!

GET AHEAD is looking forward to our event in the Science Gallery, on Monday evening where Senator David Norris will be launching our new publication "Demystifying Disability in the Workplace" and we'll be hoping to further our understanding of reasonable accomodations in the workplace. For more information, just email me!

GET AHEAD and there'll be more of the seminars with USI Equality in Dublin in the week of 24th - 28th January and in Galway in the week 1st - 4th February.

GET AHEAD had a great time in UCC. There'll be another Better Options fair in UCD on 10th December
Source: www.ahead.ie
A one-day event for students with a disability or specific learning difficulty considering their college options in Ireland in 2010.The event is hosted by University College Dublin Disability Services in association with AHEAD & DAWN (Disability Advisors Working Network).

GET AHEAD Has finished talk one of the day at UCC's Better Options. Not my best speech ever! Ah well, fingers crossed later one will be better!

This Tuesday evening (17th November) I’ll be in Cork (actually I’ll be there all day, at the Better Options fair in the morning) but the evening’s event is something different. Myse...

GET AHEAD ....and in the evening I'll be hosting a seminar for Students with Disabilities, in UCC, with USI Equality!

GET AHEAD is looking forward to Cork tomorrow! In the morning I'll be at Better Options....
Source: www.ucc.ie
University College Cork (UCC) in association with AHEAD (Association for Higher Education & Disability) and DAWN (Disability Advisors Working Network) are hosting a one-day event on Tuesday, November 17th for students with a disability or specific learning difficulty.

GET AHEAD Is delivering training at O2 headquarters this afternoon

AHEAD Launch & Learn event, Monday 23rd November, 6pm, Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin This short evening event will offer the chance to pick up our latest publication “Demystifying Disability in the Workplace” which will be launched by Senator David Norris and to help further the dev...

GET AHEAD is at the Equality Authority's Mainstreaming Equality Conference this morning

GET AHEAD is loving this article: ability being recognised and valued.
Teaching awards 2009: Edward Vickerman on why his dyslexia is an advantage to teaching | Education |
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Edward Vickerman was told he'd never make a teacher, because of his dyslexia. But to him, that's not a disadvantage - it's a gift. He explains why to Martin Wainwright

GET AHEAD is looking forward to heading to Tralee later today as I'm giving a workshop tomorrow morning in the IT.

GET AHEAD USI Equality blogs about the launch this morning:
Source: usiequality.wordpress.com
Any student union officer will tell you that there are days when you wonder why you ever ran for election in the first place. The bureaucracy of colleges, the apathy of students, the stupid fecking economy! They can all combine to make you feel sometimes that you have the worst job in the world. ...














