Obesity levels dropping in many schoolsSchools making progress in improving access to healthy eating, experts tell OireachtasTue Oct 24 2017 - 20:18
€60m loan for NUI Galway to finance ‘transformation’ of campusEuropean Investment Bank funding will help build new college of medicine, nursing and healthMon Oct 23 2017 - 18:38
Non-religious students often feel like second-class citizensAnalysis: Modernising religion rules will – belatedly – help respect rights of all pupilsMon Oct 23 2017 - 01:00
Pupils who opt-out of religion to be taught other subjectsNew rules to ensure ‘proper timetable of beneficial work’ for those not studying topicMon Oct 23 2017 - 01:00
Staff shortages affecting time spent teaching maths at secondary schoolsSome pupils receive twice as much maths tuition as othersSun Oct 22 2017 - 21:16
Plans to attract homemakers to teaching under considerationPrincipals warn that students are being left without qualified teachers in key subjectsFri Oct 20 2017 - 15:04
Not enough qualified secondary teachers in key subjects - principalsPrincipals warn Government that urgent action is needed to tackle staffing ‘crisis’Fri Oct 20 2017 - 01:00
Schoolchildren who are ‘given out to’ often are more likely to lose self-confidenceESRI study shows young people who receive praise more likely to do better at second levelThu Oct 19 2017 - 00:00
School holidays ‘unlikely’ to be cut to make up for Storm Ophelia closuresOfficial guidance indicates tuition may be prioritised over extra-curricular activitiesTue Oct 17 2017 - 19:07
Department defends decision to close schools for second daySome parents criticised move as an ‘overreaction’ on social mediaTue Oct 17 2017 - 12:44
Government urged to fast-track education board investigationBoard chief’s decision to retire prompts calls for accelerated inquiry into its spendingFri Oct 13 2017 - 02:01
Anti-abortion UCD students’ union president says she has been subject of ‘bullying campaign’Katie Ascough says group of students have been determined to impeach herThu Oct 12 2017 - 11:19
Schoolchildren urged to watch viral video on cyberbullying#ClickWithCompassion shows impact of hurtful comments in the real worldThu Oct 12 2017 - 10:45
Analysis: 12,000 extra schools places needed in 2018While 1,300 extra teaching posts are due next year, 550 of them will simply keep pace with demographic growthThu Oct 12 2017 - 01:00
More than 1,400 Leaving Cert results upgraded on appealAlmost 15 per cent of all rechecks were successful, with just four results downgradedWed Oct 11 2017 - 12:03
Further education funding to be linked with performanceSolas says the move will help meet skills needs and deliver value for moneyWed Oct 11 2017 - 01:00
Easy win on class sizes trumps hard calls over third-levelBudget 2018: Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil both want credit for reducing pupil-teacher ratioTue Oct 10 2017 - 20:41
Employers to get say on courses in exchange for rise in payroll levyRise in payroll levy expected in this week’s budget to help fund collegesMon Oct 09 2017 - 00:03
Teachers to be trained to help reduce pupils’ anxietyNew programme to be rolled out in more than 900 disadvantaged schoolsMon Oct 09 2017 - 00:01
Committee calls for grants to be made available at private collegesHundreds of students from less well-off families say they are unfairly denied supportSat Oct 07 2017 - 05:00
Education board CEO to retire before investigation is completedAudit flagged governance issues at Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training BoardSat Oct 07 2017 - 01:00
Childcare providers want to lower qualifications standards for staffGroup says interim measure needed to prevent services being ‘forced out’ of sector due to excessive regulationThu Oct 05 2017 - 21:19
Spending at State education authority to be investigatedConcerns raised by C&AG audit of Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training BoardWed Oct 04 2017 - 20:37
Students should not be saddled with debt, says MinisterThousands of students march in Dublin to oppose any plan for a student loan schemeWed Oct 04 2017 - 15:57
Q&A: What’s the student protest about?Issues surrounding the funding of higher education explained . . .Wed Oct 04 2017 - 10:57
State urged to step up aid over global education crisisAbout 825 million young people 'likely to be locked out of job opportunities by 2030'Tue Oct 03 2017 - 14:46
Fianna Fáil urges Government to tackle ‘funding crisis’ in collegesParty spokesman Thomas Byrne says up to €100m needed for higher education in budgetSun Oct 01 2017 - 19:08
Maths fail in old higher level will be enough for primary teachingStudents will be able to qualify on 30% at higher level, but ordinary level bar is to riseThu Sept 28 2017 - 18:58
Students were denied teaching courses due to maths ‘anomaly’Up to 13 applicants to be offered places after a review identified points inconsistencyThu Sept 28 2017 - 10:06
New welfare reforms aimed at lowering number of jobless familiesAction plan to target families where children’s parents are both joblessMon Sept 25 2017 - 02:00
Secondary teachers’ unions in row over ‘poaching’ of membersASTI accuses TUI of recruiting a number of its members during dispute with GovernmentMon Sept 25 2017 - 01:11
Ireland to narrowly miss target to relocate 600 asylum seekersState has performed well compared with other EU countries, Amnesty saysMon Sept 25 2017 - 00:01
Youth groups encouraged to apply for new €6m equipment fundYoung members to be consulted on how best way to spend the new resourcesMon Sept 25 2017 - 00:01
Gardaí issue appeal for missing girl (13) last seen in ClondalkinAoife Hawthorne was last seen on Saturday evening when visiting a friendSun Sept 24 2017 - 21:48
INTO to take part in new Government review of pay equalityUnion faces backlash from members over decision to participate in the evaluationSat Sept 23 2017 - 15:54
Irish parents blamed for high rate of overqualified workersEducation chief says parents are ‘obsessed’ with sending their children to third-levelFri Sept 22 2017 - 21:10
Irish secondary students have longer holidays than most in EuropeOnly France, Cyprus and Greece have a shorter school year than hereFri Sept 22 2017 - 14:05
Irish workers are most ‘overqualified’ in EuropeHigh level of excess education for job held raises questions about third-level numbersFri Sept 22 2017 - 08:46
State-run primary schools to drop faith formation in class timeParishes, parents in community national schools must organise sacramental preparationFri Sept 22 2017 - 08:46
DCU plans new ‘cultural quarter’ for north DublinUniversity seeking to place greater emphasis on culture and creativityWed Sept 20 2017 - 19:31
Schools bound by ‘outdated rules’ around the teaching of religionState sector schools have a duty to protect the human rights of all children, conference toldWed Sept 20 2017 - 17:53
UCDSU president defends dropping abortion information from freshers’ guideStudent Union president Katie Ascough says decision was made on legal groundsWed Sept 20 2017 - 15:30
Personal details of up to 30,000 teachers at risk following cyberattackIrish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO) says no financial, credit card details compromisedTue Sept 19 2017 - 15:31
‘Luxury’ student accommodation on the rise, but can anybody afford it?Thousands of purpose-built students beds are coming onstream – for €1,000 or more a monthThu Aug 31 2017 - 20:26
Primary school population to peak at highest level since 1980sMore than 563,000 children are enrolling in primary schools this SeptemberThu Aug 31 2017 - 01:00
Department of Education intervenes to help improve standards at Louth schoolSmall number of students turn up for re-opening of Scoil Náisiunta BhrighdeWed Aug 30 2017 - 22:31
First day of school: It’s the parents crying - not the childrenMothers and fathers dabbed their eyes as children got stuck into their school dayWed Aug 30 2017 - 13:49
Give me a crash course in . . . CAO pointsChanges to grading and points systems have helped dampen down the points raceSat Aug 26 2017 - 00:00
Fianna Fáil seeks equal pay for teachers within two yearsPledge follows Minister of State Mary Mitchell O’Connor’s break with Government policyThu Aug 24 2017 - 20:02
Teachers see double as six sets of twins start school in CorkThe principal of Coláiste Choilm says: ‘We’ll eventually get to know who’s who’Thu Aug 24 2017 - 01:00
