Áine Hyland (née Donlon) is Emeritus Professor of Education and former vice-president of University College Cork, Ireland.
She married Bill Hyland in 1964 and worked for a short period in the International Labour Office in Geneva, Switzerland.
(ref: Áine Hyland, A Brave New Vision for Education in Ireland: the Dalkey School Project 1974 to 1984 - published 2020).
As Vice President, she set up a teaching and learning centre (now CIRTL httlp://www.ucc.ie/cirtl) and introduced a certificate, diploma and masters degree in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, the first such qualification for university lecturers and professors in Ireland.
In 2021, the university named a room in the centre after Áine Hyland in recognition of her significant contribution to the advancement of Irish education.
She also worked on various projects with Ireland's Higher Education Authority, contributing to the HEA's National Strategy to 2030.
Her publications include a three volume collection of extracts from Irish educational documents from earliest times to the 1990s, which she co-edited with Kenneth Milne.
She has published more than 50 articles, reports and papers as well as presenting at numerous conferences nationally and internationally.