Apprenticeship a better route for some students, says MinisterOther study routes are equally valid career paths, says Mary Mitchell O’ConnorWed Dec 13 2017 - 17:46
Deis controversy: ‘Tipperary’s children deserve a better chance’Despite high levels of deprivation, the town has failed to benefit from the revamped schemeWed Dec 13 2017 - 02:00
Hundreds of disadvantaged schools ‘excluded’ from Deis support schemeRecords indicate up to 257 additional schools identified as meeting thresholdWed Dec 13 2017 - 01:00
More than 250 schools ‘excluded’ from Deis support schemeRecords indicate many disadvantaged schools not in receipt of extra resourcesWed Dec 13 2017 - 01:00
Junior Cert students receive awards for extracurricular activityReforms aim to recognise pupils’ achievements outside traditional examsTue Dec 12 2017 - 21:24
Students will have to submit video for new Leaving Cert PE examDepartment of Education will next week invite schools to apply to pilot the new exam subjectMon Dec 11 2017 - 17:59
Cybersecurity and animation among new apprenticeship areasGovernment aims to double number of young people taking ‘earn and learn’ routeFri Dec 08 2017 - 01:00
Pupils alleged to have shared topless photo of teacher ‘unlikely’ to face prosecutionLaws aimed at tackling cyberharassment have yet to be drafted, say legal expertsThu Dec 07 2017 - 21:10
More than 1,000 extra special needs assistants allocated for next yearBruton says investment ensures every child who needs support can access itWed Dec 06 2017 - 20:00
Trinity College purchases Iveagh Grounds sports facility for €2m17-acre site in Crumlin gives university access to GAA, rugby, tennis and hockey pitchesWed Dec 06 2017 - 13:56
School league tables: a snapshot of inequalityEducation has a unique capacity to break down cycles of disadvantage. But much more ambition is needed to tackle the class divide in numbers progressing to collegeWed Dec 06 2017 - 00:02
Extra €80m needed as number of projected teacher retirements doubleRichard Bruton rejects claims that teachers are ‘running out of the profession’Tue Dec 05 2017 - 22:50
Ireland’s 10-year-olds have ‘best reading skills in Europe’Minister for Education pays tribute to teachers and parents for ‘fantastic’ resultsTue Dec 05 2017 - 09:00
How did Irish schoolchildren become the best readers in Europe?Not so long ago there was real anxiety Irish students were falling behind othersTue Dec 05 2017 - 09:00
Private schools dominate league showing third-level accessFee-paying schools account for half of top 20 sending most students to collegeTue Dec 05 2017 - 05:52
Subsidies for teacher training courses suggested to fix shortagesSchools report major difficulties recruiting teachers in science, maths and languagesMon Dec 04 2017 - 15:31
Plan for more school pupils to study foreign languagesDespite teacher shortage, 10-year strategy aims to boost learning of languages at schoolMon Dec 04 2017 - 01:44
Irish students have less contact with lecturers than other countriesSurvey reveals concerns over some lecturing methods and large class sizes in third levelMon Dec 04 2017 - 01:00
Parents complain over ‘excessive’ school suspensionsDrogheda school says most of 69 suspensions and expulsions relate to violent behaviourMon Dec 04 2017 - 01:00
Board members resign at education body under investigationChair and vice-chair of Kildare Wicklow Education and Training Board stand downFri Dec 01 2017 - 19:31
Girl (11) posted on Instagram about intentions to dieInquest told that suicidal ideation is on the rise among schoolchildren as young as sevenFri Dec 01 2017 - 09:00
Only six graduates in training to be physics teachersShortage of teachers in key subjects threatens to derail Government’s Stem strategyTue Nov 28 2017 - 05:00
Shortage of qualified teachers threatens to undermine plan to become Stem leaderAnalysis: We have plenty of teachers – but they are qualified for the wrong subjectsTue Nov 28 2017 - 01:00
Teaching Stem subjects ‘seen as a job which doesn’t pay well’New maths teacher Kate McDonald opts for Middle East for travel, experience and earningsTue Nov 28 2017 - 01:00
Varadkar: ‘We are trying to find a middle way’ to avoid electionReaction: Taoiseach and ministers insist they don’t want electionMon Nov 27 2017 - 14:47
Shortage of science and maths teachers threatens Stem strategyLack of supply will impact on Government plans to boost uptake of Stem subjectsMon Nov 27 2017 - 01:00
125 high-achieving school-leavers receive scholarships under JP McManus scheme‘My reaction when I opened it? Happiness and relief. It lifted a lot of the financial burden on us. I was worried I wouldn’t be able to make ends meet’Sat Nov 25 2017 - 09:00
Bill will stop Gaelscoileanna prioritising naíonra pupilsAdmissions legislation aiming at greater fairness in Irish school enrolmentFri Nov 24 2017 - 01:00
UL lifts suspension of whistleblowers whose claims sparked inquiryUniversity president accepts ‘serious mistakes in past’ and apologises for hurt causedThu Nov 23 2017 - 20:52
Pupil tells Oireachtas: exam was like a ‘competition to see how fast you could write’Tara O’Sullivan (15) says students need longer completion times on Junior Cycle examsWed Nov 22 2017 - 21:44
RCSI urges Government to grant college university statusCollege seeks removal of ‘bizarre’ obstacle allowing it university status abroad onlyTue Nov 21 2017 - 01:00
Children in Gaelscoileanna to learn foreign languagesNew initiative will see junior infants taught subjects only through French, German or other languagesTue Nov 21 2017 - 01:00
Donohoe’s comments over supports for special needs children ‘dangerous’Minister for Finance warned there are now ‘more special needs assistants than gardaí’Mon Nov 20 2017 - 12:58
State plays catch-up with spending boost for special needsFears mount that reform of special needs assistant scheme a cover for cost-cuttingMon Nov 20 2017 - 01:00
Minister warned colleague before budget: 'There are now more SNAs than gardaí'Minister for Finance warns there are now ‘more special needs assistants than gardaí’Mon Nov 20 2017 - 01:00
Record numbers stay in school until Leaving Cert finishedRetention rate between disadvantaged schools and wealthier ones narrowsMon Nov 20 2017 - 01:00
Mother says special needs assistants play crucial role in lives of autistic sons‘SNA provides Joshua with a vital conduit to learning in the classroom and socialising’Mon Nov 20 2017 - 01:00
Varadkar wants Irish college to be part of ‘European university’Emmanuel Macron aims to create networks where students could move between institutesSun Nov 19 2017 - 15:52
Gaelscoileanna: An open door or a closed system?Fresh figures indicate Irish-speaking schools have fewer foreign studentsSat Nov 18 2017 - 06:00
Irish-speaking schools far less likely to have overseas studentsGaelscoileanna reject claims ‘soft barriers’ discriminate against foreign nationalsSat Nov 18 2017 - 01:30
Over 3,000 unqualified teachers employed to plug gaps in schoolsIndividuals provided 32,000 days of cover in schools during 2016/17Fri Nov 17 2017 - 01:00
Computer science to be first Leaving Cert subject where exam completed onlineEnd of the written exam? Experts say other subjects are set to follow the same routeTue Nov 14 2017 - 01:00
Number of Leaving Cert correcting errors ‘is worrying’Education bodies are afraid of highlighting the volume of upgraded results, academic saysTue Nov 14 2017 - 01:00
Access to low-cost funding crucial to expansion in higher educationEurostat to determine if university borrowing should be on exchequer balance sheetMon Nov 13 2017 - 02:45
University expansion plans at risk from funding difficultiesEurostat to decide if borrowings should be listed on exchequer balance sheetMon Nov 13 2017 - 02:40
Universities say higher salaries are vital to attracting top talentMove to ease pay caps could lead to pressure for higher salaries in top tier of public sectorFri Nov 10 2017 - 09:23
Universities to be allowed to hire staff on up to €250,000Move means senior academics will be on salaries higher than the Taoiseach’sFri Nov 10 2017 - 01:00
UL whistleblower: ‘I lost my job for doing the right thing’Investigation vindicates Leona O’Callaghan who discovered UL misuse of public moneyWed Nov 08 2017 - 20:57
University of Limerick criticised over €1.7m severance deal for staffAuthorities kept in dark over pay-offs to eight employees which breached public pay policiesWed Nov 08 2017 - 19:40
Teacher alleged to have applied Sellotape to mouths of studentsInquiry hears teacher told fifth class students to ‘whisht’ as they were chatting and gigglingWed Nov 08 2017 - 17:53
