Employment rates for college graduates at boom-time levelsOf working graduates, 90% find employment in Ireland with average starting pay at €33kMon Feb 18 2019 - 00:01
Today’s unfit teenagers. Tomorrow’s diabeticsSome 15-year-olds are less healthy than their grandparents. How do we avoid an epidemic?Sat Feb 16 2019 - 06:00
Leaving Cert students set to receive college offers four days earlier than normalChanges mean students will have to wait just 48 hours for offers after resultsFri Feb 15 2019 - 18:51
Too many people in Ireland going to college and unsuited to itIt seems increasingly clear that student aptitude should determine learning pathwaysFri Feb 15 2019 - 03:00
Parents need to learn higher education is not the only measure of successETBI chief says many students may flourish in more hands-on further education coursesFri Feb 15 2019 - 00:04
Is it too easy to get into some third-level college courses?Significant number of students with low CAO points are strugglingThu Feb 14 2019 - 01:00
Significant gender gap in number completing college coursesStudy shows male students with lower Leaving Cert points more likely to drop outThu Feb 14 2019 - 01:00
Teachers who do not support students with special needs may be in breach of lawDepartment of Education issues warning to secondary teachers’ unionsThu Feb 14 2019 - 01:00
Some third-level computing courses have 80% drop-out rateHigh non-completion rates in certain areas of ‘huge concern’ to education authoritiesThu Feb 14 2019 - 00:00
Hard Brexit could put major pressure on ‘creaking’ third-level sectorIrish students may stay home from UK over fees uncertainty, Oireachtas committee hearsWed Feb 13 2019 - 06:00
Trinity team secures place in ‘Irish Times’ Debate finalStudent teams debated decision to invite Pope to Ireland in hotly contested competitionMon Feb 11 2019 - 21:57
Some teens’ cardiovascular health akin to that of 60-year-oldsAge indicates a trend towards neglecting fitness in the lead-up to the Leaving CertMon Feb 11 2019 - 01:00
Students in south Dublin warned over mumps outbreakCases of the virus confirmed in Trinity College and some schoolsSun Feb 10 2019 - 18:22
University status for RCSI would boost efforts to attract students and fundingStatus matters more than ever in fiercely competitive global education marketplaceThu Feb 07 2019 - 02:11
College of Surgeons in Ireland to become a universityNew legislation would enable 235-year-old college to secure university statusThu Feb 07 2019 - 00:58
Analysis: Carter case appeal puts Government in a thorny positionMinister promoting greater access to third level while arguing no one has a right to itWed Feb 06 2019 - 16:00
Minister to argue no right of access to higher education in Carter appealCourt ‘erred’ in Leaving Cert student’s case over CAO points, Joe McHugh believesWed Feb 06 2019 - 01:05
Shortage of examiners in lead up to Leaving Cert oral examsState Examinations Commission may recruit teachers right up to start of examsMon Feb 04 2019 - 01:00
Employers must make workplaces more ‘age-friendly’ for over-65sDCU report says proportion of workers aged over 65 is set to increase dramaticallyMon Feb 04 2019 - 00:20
CAO applications rise to over 73,000 for higher education coursesModest 400 applicant increase reverses last year’s fall in applicationsFri Feb 01 2019 - 18:36
NUI to maintain requirement for mandatory IrishLong-standing policy has been under review in light of diverse student populationFri Feb 01 2019 - 00:36
Overtaxed substitute teachers to be repaidTemporary staff have had hundreds of euro wrongly deducted from their wagesThu Jan 31 2019 - 20:42
CIT and IT Tralee staff vote in favour of creating new universityFormal application to create technological university for Munster likely within weeksThu Jan 31 2019 - 20:19
Erasmus students will be able complete stay in UK in event of no-deal BrexitHundreds of Irish students participating in Erasmus programme had faced uncertaintyWed Jan 30 2019 - 18:51
Trinity investigates claims boat club members were whipped with bamboo sticksInitiation ceremony allegedly involved members being told to strip to their underwearTue Jan 29 2019 - 20:14
Third-level system ‘in danger’ from underfunding and rising student numbersResearch finds Ireland is one of only two European countries where system is at riskTue Jan 29 2019 - 18:22
Boarding schools hold new appeal for modern familiesKing’s Hospital: 350th anniversary, bullying allegations and growing numbers of boardersMon Jan 28 2019 - 00:26
More children leaving earlier in morning to get to schoolChildren with long commutes or in need of pre-school care travelling earlier than beforeMon Jan 28 2019 - 00:24
Books better than screens for students, study findsYoung ‘digital natives’ more likely to skim longer pieces and not take notes when using screensMon Jan 28 2019 - 00:12
Transition year students to have access to sexual consent workshopsNUI Galway researchers devise new national ‘active consent’ programmeMon Jan 28 2019 - 00:00
‘To survive the Irish school system, you have to become middle class’In Irish schools, middle-class girls thrive but boys from working-class backgrounds struggleSat Jan 26 2019 - 06:00
Substitute teachers may be hired on full salaries to ease ‘crisis’Many schools now rely on unqualified or retired staff to fill posts, conference hearsFri Jan 25 2019 - 13:56
One in four primary schools have homeless pupils, survey findsSchools are acting as a safe haven for ‘exhausted’ homeless children, review saysFri Jan 25 2019 - 03:00
UL students may have got wrong exam results, PAC hearsUnpublished report highlighted concerns over university’s student records systemThu Jan 24 2019 - 19:21
St Michael’s House special school in ‘temporary’ accommodation for 36 years‘We feel we’re falling through the cracks of the system’Thu Jan 24 2019 - 06:00
Deaf people to have opportunity to teach at primary level for first timeNew pathway to Irish Sign Language teaching degree launched at DCUThu Jan 24 2019 - 00:01
Special schools struggling to cope as pupils’ needs become more complexMany school principals worried about behavioural problems and violent behaviourThu Jan 24 2019 - 00:01
IT Tralee ‘overstaffed and has significant money issues’ - reportFinancial challenges at Kerry institute raise alarm at CIT over proposed mergerWed Jan 23 2019 - 00:00
Secondary schools undermined by Irish teacher shortage, survey findsTUI study states students in most schools taught by teachers not qualified in subjectsWed Jan 23 2019 - 00:00
New apprenticeships aim to boost options for school leaversEngineering, hairdressing and wind turbine maintenance to form part of ‘earn and learn’ coursesTue Jan 22 2019 - 22:05
Dublin’s King’s Hospital school marks 350th anniversaryFormer pupils of fee-paying school in Palmerstown include Taoiseach Leo VaradkarSat Jan 19 2019 - 13:09
Trinity students object to pressure of ‘impossible’ exam changesStudents highlight ‘steep decline’ in participation in clubs and societiesSat Jan 19 2019 - 12:30
Consideration of student loan scheme for third-level to be delayedGovernment applies to European Commission to carry out detailed economic analysisSat Jan 19 2019 - 00:51
Five schools to undergo detailed structural safety checks this weekendSchools in Dublin, Cork, Meath and Laois built by Western Building Systems to be assessedFri Jan 18 2019 - 18:14
Record number of students now in third levelOf those who graduated with honours degrees, 20% received first-class resultFri Jan 18 2019 - 00:01
Exams body to review rules for bereaved students sitting examsStudent tells of having to sit Leaving Cert exam the day after her mother diedThu Jan 17 2019 - 20:44
Grading changes risk further alienating less academic pupilsAnalysis: Many students already feel our academic secondary school system is rigged against themThu Jan 17 2019 - 10:33
Grade reforms push ‘ill-equipped’ students to take higher-level examsNew study also says the changes have widened gaps for disadvantaged pupilsThu Jan 17 2019 - 00:45
Children who own mobile phones at age nine ‘perform less well’ in academic testsESRI study finds about 40 per cent of Irish children have mobile phone by that ageTue Jan 15 2019 - 12:13
CAO countdown: Industries facing skills shortages battle to attract school-leaversThousands to apply for courses ahead of this month’s application deadlineMon Jan 14 2019 - 01:00