Recipients announced for DCU President’s Awards for Engagement for 2024

In the special merit staff category, DCU’s Tanzania Pre-Primary Education team (Fiona Giblin, Dr Catherine Mulryan-Kyne and Professor Bernard Pierce) were awarded for their provision of professional development and related supports for 18 teachers in seven partner primary schools in the country since 2019. The team travelled to Tanzania in 2023 to provide on-site professional development, teaching materials and resources and to examine the ways in which the partnership could be extended with future research collaborations with a Tanzania teacher training college. The outcome of this has been the creation of a volunteering programme for student teachers from the DCU Institute of Education, focusing on early childhood education in Tanzania, which rolls out in later this year.