The National CollegeEducation Staff
Professor Gary Granville, BA, MSc (Ed. Mgmt.), HDipEd, MIDI
Head of Faculty, Education
Gary Granville is Professor of Education at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. He has extensive experience in curriculum development at national and at local level. He was formerly Assistant Chief Executive of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA). He has acted as evaluator and advisor to national and international agencies in the field of education and training. He is currently involved in many arts-related initiatives in formal and informal education. He is a member of the Higher Education Authority of Ireland and of many national and local committees.
Member of the following Boards and Committees:
- Higher Education Authority
- National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, Senior Cycle Committee,
- Advisory Group, Teaching and Learning for the 21st Century NUI Maynooth
- Irish Youth Foundation (Research Director)
- Board of Directors, Common Ground, Community Arts Development Agency
- Bank of Ireland Millennium Scholars Trust, Educational Advisory Panel
- Independent Newspapers/CIE Building for the Future Panel of Adjudicators
- Board of Management, Loreto College, Crumlin, Dublin
- Board of Advisors, Terenure College, Dublin
Recent External consultancy
Project Leader Impact Study on South African National Qualifications Framework, South African Qualification Authority (SAQA) – consultancy funded by EU
| Recent External examining engagements | |
| NUI, Maynooth | PhD |
| University of Glasgow | Postgraduate Certificate in the Arts in Education |
| University of Limerick | Masters in Education |
| St. Patrick’s College | Masters in Education |
Recent Publications, Papers and Presentations:
- “Speaking from experience”: boundary-crossing within a pre-vocational education programme in Ireland, in Between School and Work, New Perspectives on Transfer and Boundary-crossing (eds. Tuomi-Grohn & Engestrom) Pergammon; Amsterdam 2003
- “Stop Making Sense”: chaos and coherence in the formulation of the Irish qualifications framework, Journal of Education and Work 16, 3, Sept. 2003
- Connective Learning and the work-related curriculum, International Journal of education and Training 11,1, 2003
- Setting Standards in South Africa report to South African Qualifications Authority EU/HEDCO: 2002
- Creative encounters: arts education in the school and community paper delivered at NAYD/Arts Council Conference, Kilkenny 22 October 2002
- The evolution of the Irish Qualifications framework paper delivered at conference in Edinburgh University, January 2003
- The Irish National Framework of Qualifications in international perspective paper delivered at ESAI Annual Conference, Belfast, April 2003
Membership of professional bodies
