Launched - The Richard Burke
TY PERSONIFIED AWARD
TYI and our partners
QQI take great pleasure
in introducing the
Richard Burke TY
Personified Award for
Transition Year
Students. The Award
was launched at the
TrendMicro Head Office
in Cork on 06 April
2017.
Speaking at the launch, Deputy
Jim Daly, Chairman of the
Oireachtas Committee on
Children & Youth Affairs and a
long time supporter of TY
Ireland, spoke eloquently about
the importance of TY in his life.
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The award is named after
Richard Burke, Minister of
Education who in 1974
announced his Transition Year
brainchild at the Vocational
Teachers Association (now TUI)
Easter Conference in Dun
Laoghaire, Co Dublin.
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The family of Richard Burke
were delighted to learn about
the award and to have the award
named in his honour. In fact
Richard Burke’s granddaughter
will be starting TY in September.
Pictured at the launch are (above, ltr)
Susan MacNeill (QQI), Reece Sheridan
(TY Student At Pipers Hill Community
College & TYI Ambassador 2016 -
2017), Jim Daly (Fine Gael Cork South
West TD and Chairman of the
Oireachtas Committee on Children
and Youth Affairs) and Amanda
Mulligan Landzaad (TYI)"
Pictured right are, standing, Susan
MacNeill (QQI) and Edwin Landzaad
(TYI) and Joel Abraham, Uzair Ahmad,
Leon Keating and Tony O’Halloran
from Coláiste an Spioraid Naoimh
About the award Overall Aims of TY
The award aims to identify the
student who best represents the
Mission and Aims of Transition
Year and who has been
proactive in fulfilling their own
potential. •
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Anyone can nominate!!! The
competition is an annual
opportunity for TY Service
Providers, Parents, TY
Coordinators & Teachers,
Guidance Counsellors, Mentors
and Employers to acknowledge
the hard work and effort that an
individual student put into their
TY and to nominate them for
recognition for a national award.
Financial, ability and
circumstantial divides are taken
into consideration.
T Y UPDATE MAY 2017
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Education for maturity with
the emphasis on personal
development including social
awareness and increased
social competence.
The promotion of general,
technical and academic skills
with an emphasis on
interdisciplinary and self-
directed learning.
Education through
experience of adult and
working life as a basis for
personal development and
maturity.