Why the Minister for Education gets top marks from teachersFormer teacher Joe McHugh is popular with educators – but is he too close for comfort?Mon Apr 22 2019 - 01:00
Teachers threaten industrial action if Government fails to end two-tier payNew entrant pay rates set to dominate teachers’ conferences this weekMon Apr 22 2019 - 01:00
Substitute teachers to be be hired on full salaries to ease classroom ‘crisis’Many schools say they are forced to rely on unqualified or retired staff to provide coverMon Apr 22 2019 - 00:01
Department in talks to buy multi-million euro Goatstown site for schoolsSite for primary and secondary schools likely to be among most expensive in countryFri Apr 12 2019 - 18:59
Schools may have to cut access to facilities in evenings due to funding shortfallsRecruitment embargo on maintenance staff is raising health and safety concernsTue Apr 09 2019 - 19:51
Hundreds of ‘invisible’ children excluded from education – reportChildren with autism have been expelled or withdrawn due to inadequate supports, say familiesMon Apr 08 2019 - 00:00
Focus on autism: ‘Riley has been rejected by 37 schools’Nicole Duggan has been trying to find a place for her son since he was three months oldMon Apr 08 2019 - 00:00
‘My child was expelled at six. We’re in 2019... Our children are invisible’Hundreds of children with autism are being failed by the State education systemMon Apr 08 2019 - 00:00
Autism waiting lists: ‘Once you get a diagnosis, it’s like going to war’James Field is due to start school next September but is unable to get a placeMon Apr 08 2019 - 00:00
Anxiety ‘epidemic’ leaving guidance counsellors struggling to copeDemand for support rising for self-harm and suicidal ideation in secondary schoolsSun Apr 07 2019 - 19:05
Scaremongering and fear: The Dublin Catholic school rowEveryone agrees churches run too many schools, but nobody wants theirs to leave firstSat Apr 06 2019 - 06:00
Teachers may face fitness-to-practise complaints over social media useDraft guidelines require teachers not to make Facebook friends with studentsSat Apr 06 2019 - 02:00
Dublin school patronage vote suspended over ‘misinformation’Catholic Archdiocese says parents should be fully informed amid claims Christmas ‘will be cancelled’Fri Apr 05 2019 - 17:31
Universities say they may have to limit number of Irish students due to funding shortageIrish Universities Association warns of intolerable strain on university systemThu Apr 04 2019 - 01:00
McHugh to review process for selecting schools for divestment‘Inaccurate claims’ about patronage creating fear and uncertainty, says MinisterThu Apr 04 2019 - 00:26
Irish university graduates earn more from degrees than in UKStudy shows students receive €100,000 more over lifetime than if they had forgone degreeThu Apr 04 2019 - 00:01
Pupils in divested schools ‘will not be prevented’ from celebrating ChristmasCatholic schools in north Dublin are resisting plan to divest their patronageTue Apr 02 2019 - 21:50
Removing school’s Catholic ethos would be ‘Brexit-type disaster’, parents toldResistance to Government request to divest Catholic patronage in north DublinTue Apr 02 2019 - 14:55
Older schools to be transformed into top-rated energy efficient buildingsGovernment-funded pilot project is model for national programme to retrofit schoolsFri Mar 29 2019 - 00:01
Call for students in disadvantaged schools to get extra CAO pointsSchool management body president says equality of access needed in higher educationThu Mar 28 2019 - 19:17
SNAs to be allocated to schools based on social profilesPilot scheme breaks link between a diagnosis and access to special needs assistantsWed Mar 27 2019 - 17:04
Students call on Taoiseach to commit to publicly-funded higher education systemLeo Varadkar rules out student loans or increases in annual €3,000 contributionWed Mar 27 2019 - 16:54
Leaving Cert students may be assessed over two yearsProposed shake-up could result in biggest changes to State exam in half a centuryWed Mar 27 2019 - 00:40
Leaving Cert: Senior cycle review seeks update to 21st centuryWith rapid advances in automation and artificial intelligence, skills for work success are changing fastWed Mar 27 2019 - 00:29
Leaving Cert ‘too academic’ say groups consulted in senior-cycle reviewConsensus emerges for more technical and creative pathways for Leaving Cert studentsWed Mar 27 2019 - 00:18
TCD newspaper’s future to be put to referendum following bugging controversyMove follows row over use of a recording device to report hazing allegationsSun Mar 24 2019 - 19:19
Donogh O’Malley’s speech announcing free secondary education recreated by sonActor Daragh O’Malley delivers father’s seminal 1967 announcementFri Mar 22 2019 - 14:59
School principal refuses to return pupils to ‘dire’ classroom conditionsCharleville CBS Primary school demands plans for new building within weeksFri Mar 22 2019 - 07:46
Six new judges for Court of Appeal to help cut waiting times for casesDelays of almost two years for civil cases to be heardFri Mar 22 2019 - 00:00
Shortage of college places looms unless State invests in higher education, say campaignersStudents and lecturers stage lunchtime protests to highlight ‘growing crisis’Thu Mar 21 2019 - 20:50
Rooskey locals express relief at decision to scrap direct provision planDecision not to open centre at former hotel follows ‘difficulties with lease agreement’Thu Mar 21 2019 - 19:25
Schools encouraged to create ‘safe spaces’ for LGBT studentsHandbook for secondary schools on how to set up LGBT-friendly after-school clubsWed Mar 20 2019 - 23:16
Schools invited to commemorate Famine by planting Lumper potatoesVariety which millions of Irish depended on was destroyed by blight from 1845 onwardsWed Mar 20 2019 - 20:05
More than 100 Catholic primary schools have closed over past decadeMultidenominational is the fastest growing category of school by ethosWed Mar 20 2019 - 01:51
Injecting, drug dealing, bloodied wipes, ‘the kids see everything’Principal of Dublin national school says authorities are ignoring impact on pupilsWed Mar 20 2019 - 01:13
Colleges risk losing funding if sexual consent classes not providedReport ordered by Minister recommends ‘transparent and accountable’ protocolsTue Mar 19 2019 - 14:00
Consent on campus: ‘We’re building zero tolerance to sexual harassment’UCC’s ‘bystander intervention’ is being made available to all 22,000 studentsTue Mar 19 2019 - 01:00
Cultural change needed to make campuses safer for third-level studentsAnalysis: Sexual harassment and rape remain major issues on campusTue Mar 19 2019 - 01:00
Why do so many Leaving Cert students skip the Irish exam?Is it fear or loathing that made 9,500 students sit out the test in 2016 – and does it matter?Sat Mar 16 2019 - 06:00
School climate strikes pose dilemma for principalsAny move to endorse walkouts poses welfare and safety risks for studentsFri Mar 15 2019 - 07:00
World’s oldest college debating society to celebrate 250th anniversaryTrinity College Dublin Historical Society to celebrate its gilded, and star-studded, historyThu Mar 14 2019 - 01:00
Alan Hawe was not facing disciplinary threat, school saysCastlerahan NS says reputation of staff damaged by claims killer accessed porn on premisesTue Mar 12 2019 - 16:07
Thousands of students opt not to sit Leaving Cert Irish exam each yearNew data shows thousands of pupils without exemptions are choosing not to sit examMon Mar 11 2019 - 01:36
Sharp drop in CAO applications from UK amid Brexit uncertaintyDemand up for language, humanities courses and down for journalism, theologySat Mar 09 2019 - 06:00
Prescription drugs implicated in most deaths by overdoseJust 5% of drug-related deaths are among people who inject drugsFri Mar 08 2019 - 00:01
Women earn 16% less than men in the European Union, report findsEuropean Commission report calls for greater steps to narrow gender pay gapThu Mar 07 2019 - 18:05
Inadequate numbers of trained staff at centre for vulnerable adultsReport finds some staff not trained to give medication to residentsThu Mar 07 2019 - 17:55
Government rules out review of plan to ‘demote’ geography in junior cycleVaradkar says making too many subjects compulsory risks overloading curriculumThu Mar 07 2019 - 17:16
Higher education fees for students from Northern Ireland to be frozenAmendment to Brexit Bill will protect existing fees regime in event of hard BrexitWed Mar 06 2019 - 22:50
‘Critical’ shortage of engineering graduates55% decrease in civil and building engineering graduates over the last five yearsWed Mar 06 2019 - 17:26
