The future of Catholic schools with Jonathan Tiernan

About this episode

Jonathan Tiernan discusses the future of Catholic schools and the challenges and opportunities they face in the coming decade.

This week’s guest on EDUCATION NATION Jonathan Tiernan, CEO of the Jesuit Education Trust provides a clear-eyed assessment of what lies ahead for Catholic schools should we fail to capitalise on the opportunities before us or if we do not respond adequately to the challenges of the next ten years.

People in this episode

Guest: Jonathan Tiernan

Topics covered

• Catholic schools
• education
• future of education
• challenges in education
• opportunities in education

Keywords

• Catholic schools
• education challenges
• Jesuit Education Trust
• future of education
• opportunities in education

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Jesuit Education Trust

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