Education and Inequality:

Financial Capital, Social Capital and the Education Access Gap

By Independent Senator Lynn Ruane

For this year's TASC annual lecture, Independent Senator Lynne Ruane, will explore issues that go to the heart of TASC’s mission. Lynn is passionate and vocal defender of the transformative power of education and a challenger of inequality in all its forms. Her lecture will explore the education access gap and the role of financial capital and social capital.

About Senator Ruane

Lynn is a recently elected independent senator, serving in Seanad Éireann and is a former president of Trinity College Dublin's Students' Union. An early school leaver and single mother of two from Killinarden, Dublin, she gained access to Trinity in 2011 through the Trinity Access Programme as a mature student. Prior to her return to education, she worked for fifteen years as an addiction counsellor and community worker in west Dublin.

Date: 24th November 2016 - lecture starts at 6.30pm - registration from 6pm

Venue: Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2 - see map below

The lecture will be followed by a wine reception.