Aine Hyland

Áine Hyland (née Donlon) is Emeritus Professor of Education and former Vice-President of University College Cork, Ireland. She was born in 1942 in Athboy, Co. Meath and went to school in the Mercy Convent, Ballymahon, Co. Longford where she sat her Leaving Cert in 1959. She was a civil servant in the Department of Education from 1959 to 1964, during which time she worked as a research assistant on the Investment in Education report. She married Bill Hyland in 1964 and worked for a short period in the International Labour Office in Geneva, Switzerland.

Because of the marriage ban, she was not permitted to work in the civil service on her return to Ireland in 1966, and she spent a number of years in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a university student. She graduated with a B.A. from UCD in 1966 and with a H. Dip. in Ed from TCD in 1969 and an M.Ed in 1975. She was awarded a Ph.D. by TCD in 1982. She was a secondary teacher in Hillcourt School, Glenageary and St. Andrew's College, Booterstown during the 1970s and in 1980 she was appointed Admissions Officer and Senior Lecturer in Education in Carysfort College of Education, Blackrock, Co. Dublin. When Carysfort College closed in the late 1980s, she was appointed Senior Lecturer in Education in University College Dublin. In 1993, she was appointed Professor of Education in University College Cork and was head of the Education Department until her appointment as Vice-President of UCC in 1999. She retired from University College Cork in 2006.

In a voluntary capacity, she has been involved in various education projects during the past 40 years. She was a founding member of the Dalkey School Project, which opened in 1978 as Ireland’s first multi-denominational national school since the foundation of the State. She was secretary and subsequently chair of Educate Together in the late 1980s and early 1990s. She was a member of the Interim Curriculum and Examinations Board in the 1980s and of the Special Education Review Committee in the early 1990s. She was President of the Educational Studies Association of Ireland from 1990 to 1992. In 1995-6, she was a member of the government’s Constitution Review Group and a member of the Technical Working Group on the Future of Higher Education. She chaired the Commission on the Points system which reported in 1999; the Statutory Educational Disadvantage Committee from 2002 to 2005; the National Economic and Social Forum’s Advisory Group on Literacy and Social Inclusion, 2009 - 2010, and a Working Group for the State Examination Commission on Reasonable Accommodations which reported in 2009. She was a member and Vice-President of the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences for 2002 to 2009 and of the Dormant Accounts Board from 2002 to 2010.

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