Business acumen pays dividendsNATIONAL AWARDS: Waterford brothers Paul and Michael Flynn took the top prize at this year's Golden Vale Young Entrepreneurs…Tue Jul 23 2002 - 01:00
DIT resolves its optometry issuesTHIRD LEVEL: The Opticians Board of Ireland has lifted its ban on the DIT school of optometry taking in first year students …Tue Jul 23 2002 - 01:00
Dempsey accused by student leaders of failure to consult on rise in capitation feeThe new Minister for Education had severely damaged his relationship with students by introducing an increase of almost 70 per…Fri Jul 19 2002 - 01:00
DIT resolves its optometry issuesTHIRD LEVEL: The Opticians Board of Ireland has lifted its ban on the DIT school of optometry taking in first year students …Tue Jul 16 2002 - 01:00
Business acumen pays dividendsNATIONAL AWARDS: Waterford brothers Paul and Michael Flynn took the top prize at this year's Golden Vale Young Entrepreneurs…Tue Jul 16 2002 - 01:00
Business acumen pays dividendsNATIONAL AWARDS: Waterford brothers Paul and Michael Flynn took the top prize at this year's Golden Vale Young Entrepreneurs…Tue Jul 09 2002 - 01:00
DIT resolves its optometry issuesTHIRD LEVEL: The Opticians Board of Ireland has lifted its ban on the DIT school of optometry taking in first year students …Tue Jul 09 2002 - 01:00
DIT resolves its optometry issuesTHIRD LEVEL: The Opticians Board of Ireland has lifted its ban on the DIT school of optometry taking in first year students …Tue Jul 02 2002 - 01:00
Business acumen pays dividendsNATIONAL AWARDS: Waterford brothers Paul and Michael Flynn took the top prize at this year's Golden Vale Young Entrepreneurs…Tue Jul 02 2002 - 01:00
DIT resolves its optometry issuesTHIRD LEVEL: The Opticians Board of Ireland has lifted its ban on the DIT school of optometry taking in first year students …Tue Jun 25 2002 - 01:00
Business acumen pays dividendsNATIONAL AWARDS: Waterford brothers Paul and Michael Flynn took the top prize at this year's Golden Vale Young Entrepreneurs…Tue Jun 25 2002 - 01:00
New structure leads students through questionsLEAVING CERT APPLIED MATHS: The Leaving Cert applied maths exam was a marked improvement on previous years and should help encourage…Sat Jun 22 2002 - 01:00
Hard for the 182 to fault the papersLEAVING CERT ITALIAN: With just 182 students sitting the paper, Italian is not the most popular Leaving Cert examSat Jun 22 2002 - 01:00
Teachers and pupils angry at 'sloppy, unfair' testsLEAVING CERT MUSIC: Teachers and pupils have slammed the Leaving Cert music morning and afternoon exams as sloppy, unimaginative…Fri Jun 21 2002 - 01:00
Heroic effort to finish in the time allowedLEAVING CERTIFICATE/Economics: There was something almost heroic about Leaving Cert students who managed to pack the entire …Thu Jun 20 2002 - 01:00
Warm welcome for final science paperLEAVING CERT CHEMISTRY: Prospects for the sciences would seem to be getting sunnier with chemistry, the final science exam of…Wed Jun 19 2002 - 01:00
Fast-paced aural exams serve up hot potatoes and a Britney teaserLEAVING CERT SPANISH: Confusion abounded in the Leaving Cert Spanish aural examsWed Jun 19 2002 - 01:00
Final question out of harmony with music testsJUNIOR CERT MUSIC: A badly pitched final question in the Junior Cert music exams hit a bum note with many students after what…Tue Jun 18 2002 - 01:00
Business acumen pays dividendsNATIONAL AWARDS: Waterford brothers Paul and Michael Flynn took the top prize at this year's Golden Vale Young Entrepreneurs…Tue Jun 18 2002 - 01:00
DIT resolves its optometry issuesTHIRD LEVEL: The Opticians Board of Ireland has lifted its ban on the DIT school of optometry taking in first year students …Tue Jun 18 2002 - 01:00
Teachers warn of low uptake of biologyJUNIOR CERTIFICATE/Science: Teachers have warned that Wednesday's "disastrous" biology paper will deter Junior Cert students…Fri Jun 14 2002 - 01:00
Number crunch paper has right balanceLEAVING CERTIFICATE/Accounting: A long morning of number crunching left Leaving Cert accounting students tired but, for the …Fri Jun 14 2002 - 01:00
Higher level paper taxing, tiring but mostly fairLEAVING CERTIFICATE/Business Studies: Students found this year's Leaving Cert business studies exam quite taxing, but it was…Thu Jun 13 2002 - 01:00
Students spent day taking care of businessJUNIOR CERTIFICATE/Business Studies: Junior Cert students were "taking care of business" all day yesterday with both morning…Thu Jun 13 2002 - 01:00
Teachers are unhappy with French exam tapesLEAVING CERT FRENCH: Tricky tapes can be a big stumbling block in the language exams and yesterday's French aurals scuppered…Wed Jun 12 2002 - 01:00
Problems arise in aurals and written examsJUNIOR CERT FRENCH: Ordinary-level Junior Cert students had a tough time of it yesterday, with problems arising in both the …Wed Jun 12 2002 - 01:00
DIT resolves its optometry issuesTHIRD LEVEL: The Opticians Board of Ireland has lifted its ban on the DIT school of optometry taking in first year students …Tue Jun 11 2002 - 01:00
Business acumen pays dividendsNATIONAL AWARDS: Waterford brothers Paul and Michael Flynn took the top prize at this year's Golden Vale Young Entrepreneurs…Tue Jun 11 2002 - 01:00
New-look Irish paper is long but loveableJUNIOR CERTIFICATE/Irish: Those Junior Cert students without much grá for the Gaeilge can breath a sigh of relief - it's all…Sat Jun 08 2002 - 01:00
Looks let CSPE paper downJUNIOR CERTIFICATE/Civic, Social and Political Education: While the Junior Cert Civic, Social and Political Education (CSPE) …Sat Jun 08 2002 - 01:00
Junior maths: end of an eraJUNIOR CERTIFICATE/Maths: It's the last hurrah for the old-style Junior Cert maths examFri Jun 07 2002 - 01:00
Laughs in short supply on rather po-faced paperJUNIOR CERTIFICATE/Irish: Junior Cert students met rather po-faced Irish papers yesterdayFri Jun 07 2002 - 01:00
Students are very happy with 'straightforward' papersJunior Certificate English: With the large volume of writing involved, the English exams are never soft, but this year's Junior…Thu Jun 06 2002 - 01:00
DIT resolves its optometry issuesTHIRD LEVEL: The Opticians Board of Ireland has lifted its ban on the DIT school of optometry taking in first year students …Tue Jun 04 2002 - 01:00
Business acumen pays dividendsNATIONAL AWARDS: Waterford brothers Paul and Michael Flynn took the top prize at this year's Golden Vale Young Entrepreneurs…Tue Jun 04 2002 - 01:00
Business acumen pays dividendsNATIONAL AWARDS: Waterford brothers Paul and Michael Flynn took the top prize at this year's Golden Vale Young Entrepreneurs…Tue May 21 2002 - 01:00
DIT resolves its optometry issuesTHIRD LEVEL: The Opticians Board of Ireland has lifted its ban on the DIT school of optometry taking in first year students …Tue May 21 2002 - 01:00
Contributing to a century of CantVOCATIONAL EDUCATION: The Irish Vocational Education Association celebrates its centenary this year, and though the association…Tue May 14 2002 - 01:00
New York targets maths teachersRECRUITMENT : The State's schools may lose some of their most needed teachers if the New York City Board of Education succeeds…Tue May 14 2002 - 01:00
Green school opens old woundsPRIMARY LEVEL: The Minister for Education's plan to build an energy-efficient "green" school in Co Offaly may strike a chord…Tue May 14 2002 - 01:00
Factfile: dental hygienistThe Irish Dental Hygienists Association is the professional body representing hygienists.Tue May 07 2002 - 01:00
Special needs still waiting to be metSCHOOL PROTEST: A Co Wicklow school catering for children with special needs is in danger of losing planning permission for …Tue May 07 2002 - 01:00
Online access to drug informationSTUDENTS AND DRUGS: A NEW student website dedicated to providing objective information about drugs has been launched by the …Tue Apr 30 2002 - 01:00
Factfile: AnimationBallyfermot College of Further Education runs three animation courses; a one-year introductory course in animation studies, a…Tue Apr 30 2002 - 01:00
End of a long road in sight for DITMOVE TO GRANGEGORMAN: Six years since talks on acquiring lands from the Eastern Health Board began, more than two years since…Tue Apr 30 2002 - 01:00
Resources needed to stop dropoutsEARLY SCHOOL LEAVERS: Smaller class sizes and wider access to specialist services are needed to combat the problem of early …Tue Apr 30 2002 - 01:00
Conservatory staff sing out of tuneDIT MUSIC: The deterioration of staff-management relations at the DIT Conservatory of Music has led to the resignation of another…Tue Apr 23 2002 - 01:00
Factfile: Fire serviceThe Fire Sservice welcomes applications from men and womenTue Apr 09 2002 - 01:00
Untrained teacher use criticisedINTO CONFERENCE: Using untrained teachers in primary classrooms was akin to substituting gardaí with "enthusiastic bouncers …Fri Apr 05 2002 - 01:00
Action urged on school buildingsINTO CONFERENCE: The Government must be spurred into action to deal with the deplorable condition of sub-standard schools before…Thu Apr 04 2002 - 01:00
