Primary teachers reject draft public sector pay dealINTO’s executive had urged ‘no’ vote over failure to tackle pay equality among teachersThu Jul 13 2017 - 17:24
Cork Institute of Technology spent €20,000 on two portraitsCollege carrying €1m deficit faces criticism over paintings of president and chairmanThu Jul 13 2017 - 11:50
UCC withholds some results amid allegations of cheatingCollege confirms it is looking into possible breach of examination proceduresThu Jul 13 2017 - 08:39
Primary teachers set to reject draft pay dealPay equality between established and new teachers emerges as key issue for professionThu Jul 13 2017 - 01:00
Government to leave door open to student loan schemeLabour to table motion seeking abolition of student registration chargeWed Jul 12 2017 - 01:00
Third level colleges accused of ‘wild west’ approach to use of taxpayers’ moneyPublic Accounts Committee report critical of corporate governance failuresTue Jul 11 2017 - 20:54
Rights of children opting out of religion class ‘must be respected’New Bill will require schools to set out their provisions for non-religious studentsTue Jul 11 2017 - 01:00
Universities face severe criticism over use of public fundsPublic accounts committee highly critical of failure to declare private incomeTue Jul 11 2017 - 01:00
Largest single school building project gets under wayEducation campus in Maynooth will provide school places for 2,000 secondary pupilsMon Jul 10 2017 - 18:19
Thousands to alter college choices before CAO ‘deadline day’Change of mind: Applicants being drawn to courses linked to areas of the growing economyFri Jun 30 2017 - 12:25
Legal questions over plan to remove school ‘Baptism barrier’Legislation yet to be examined by Attorney GeneralThu Jun 29 2017 - 21:36
School ‘Baptism barrier’ is unfair on parents, says BrutonMinister announces plans to remove religious critera in Catholic school admissionsThu Jun 29 2017 - 11:49
Catholic schools criticise plans to remove ‘Baptism barrier’Minority faith primary schools will retain capacity to accept pupils on faith groundsThu Jun 29 2017 - 06:45
State exams body got one complaint over junior cycle English examConcern over length of paper sparked petition by 12,000 students prior to examWed Jun 28 2017 - 21:36
Time for education system to catch up with societyAnalysis: Removal of ‘Baptism barrier’ latest step in fight for equality-based school systemWed Jun 28 2017 - 21:17
Concerns over the ‘huge’ numbers of suspensions of school boysPupils banned from class on over 13,000 occasions with 145 expulsions, committee hearsTue Jun 27 2017 - 21:54
Three teachers’ unions look set to reject pay dealASTI’s standing committee recommends rejection of proposed public sector pay dealTue Jun 27 2017 - 19:22
Private schools will ruck on despite new admission rulesThe changes take aim at policies of such schools, but little will change on the groundTue Jun 27 2017 - 18:56
Schools to be given five years to phase out waiting lists‘Old school tie’ provision will limit places for past-pupils to no more than 25%Tue Jun 27 2017 - 13:25
Cork Institute of Technology announces new interim presidentDr Barry O’Connor says third-level requires extra financial support from specific departmentsMon Jun 26 2017 - 21:56
NUIG to drop students’ names from exam papers amid bias concernsAnonymous marking was pledged 13 years ago but was never followed through - unionMon Jun 26 2017 - 19:23
Leaving Cert music: from uilleann pipes to ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’‘All compositions in major key so students had no opportunity to be melancholy’Thu Jun 22 2017 - 23:18
Universities accused of ‘misleading’ Dáil committee over financial affairsDIT president regrets not providing committee with ‘highly critical’ report of managment failuresThu Jun 22 2017 - 17:40
DIT officials to appear before PAC after withholding report on €700,000 lossSenior third-level college officials will appear before the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee to face allegations that they misled TDsThu Jun 22 2017 - 10:26
Report criticises DIT’s lack of oversight on €30 million in spendingExternal report finds lack of management oversight and breaches in purchasing policyThu Jun 22 2017 - 09:45
DIT president ordered to show report on lost €700,000TDs accuse college of misleading members over serious management failuresThu Jun 22 2017 - 01:00
Concerns raised over spending issues at DIT subsidiaryAn Chéim’s board conducted ‘forensic analysis’ of services provided to tech companyThu Jun 22 2017 - 01:00
Junior Cert music: Harmonious affair for most studentsVivaldi’s ‘Spring’ strikes the right note for most students on a hot summer’s dayWed Jun 21 2017 - 14:07
Children should be able to attend local school ‘regardless of religion’Oireachtas committee also recommends accessible alternatives to religious classesWed Jun 21 2017 - 11:07
Junior Cert materials technology: rocking chair on ‘balanced’ paperTeachers happy with range of questions and quality of graphicsMon Jun 19 2017 - 19:00
Junior Cert technical graphics: ‘Even the most gifted students were caught for time’Higher-level candidates report a lack of time to complete the paperMon Jun 19 2017 - 14:56
Migrant pupils falling behind at reading, research showsAchievement gap is ‘not large’ compared to many other developed countriesFri Jun 16 2017 - 08:20
Leo Varadkar becomes first ‘Trinity Taoiseach’Election marks a milestone in ‘normalising’ an institution once linked to Protestant eliteWed Jun 14 2017 - 18:45
Junior Cert Business: Brexit and strikes feature on topical paperPaper provided a good chance for applicants to apply their knowledge to current affairsTue Jun 13 2017 - 20:24
Investigation begins into how Leaving Cert paper was posted on FacebookImages of paper posted to Facebook group for teachers shortly after exam beganTue Jun 13 2017 - 16:16
State to lease primary school from Catholic Church under new divestment planKerry school under Catholic patronage to be re-opened as a community national schoolMon Jun 12 2017 - 20:21
ASTI leaders under pressure following strategy U-turnCalls for leadership figures to resign after members vote to suspend industrial actionMon Jun 12 2017 - 01:00
Gaelscoileanna to provide faith classes for a variety of religionsAn Foras Pátrúnachta is to introduce a new multidenominational model in its schoolsMon Jun 12 2017 - 01:00
ASTI brings end to futile campaign that divided unionAnalysis: Anger over new entrants’ pay may lead resumption in hostilities next autumnSun Jun 11 2017 - 16:12
Trainee and retired teachers will be asked to plug acute staffing gapsUnions say emigration of young Irish teachers a key factor behind shortagesFri Jun 09 2017 - 19:42
Junior Cert Irish paper 2: ‘Students challenged with detailed questions’Afternoon paper a tougher task for manyThu Jun 08 2017 - 18:24
Trinity and UCD climb in latest world university rankingsUCD says it may need to ‘reduce number of places to Irish students to preserve quality’Thu Jun 08 2017 - 08:50
Junior Cert English: Students challenged to think rather than regurgitateMixed reaction to the first paper of the new Junior Cycle English curriculumWed Jun 07 2017 - 13:32
Exams body confident it will have enough teachers to correct workJunior and Leaving Cert gets under way for more than 120,000 studentsWed Jun 07 2017 - 01:00
Leaving Cert exams in eastern European languages on rise726 students enter for the Polish exam – the most popular non-curricular subjectWed Jun 07 2017 - 01:00
Leaving Cert: Record number taking higher-level subjectsStudents aim to take advantage of CAO reforms as 121,000 prepare for examsTue Jun 06 2017 - 08:54
Give me a crash course in … school waiting listsLead-in time should mean any parent with a child’s on a list is unlikely to be affectedSat Jun 03 2017 - 00:00
As Leaving Cert starts, exam correctors ‘urgently’ neededAuthorities issue appeal to working, retired and newly qualified teachersThu Jun 01 2017 - 13:09
Employers resist Government moves to force them to pay more for educationMinisters Richard Bruton and Paschal Donohoe say increase in employers’ levy needed to tackle ‘crisis’ in fundingWed May 31 2017 - 20:59
Third level students showcase new social entrepreneurship projectsEnactus Ireland event recognises students’ efforts to to support marginalised people in the communityWed May 31 2017 - 14:16
