Leading educator Prof Hyland to be honoured

A LEADER in the development of education in Ireland is to be honoured by civic leaders in Cork this evening.

Professor Áine Hyland retired as vice-president of University College Cork late last year. She will be remembered particularly for her work leading national groups on major education issues.

Most notable among these was the Commission on the Points System which reported to the Government in 1999, while more recently, she chaired the Government’s educational disadvantage committee whose 2005 report strongly informed recent policy in this area.