Cog Notes: Webwise aims to educate children about online safetyAn impressive set of materials is being made available to schools ahead of Safer Internet Day on February 10thTue Jan 20 2015 - 13:28
Unthinkable: Is mystical thinking a cop-out?Trappist monk Thomas Merton believed that silent contemplation was far from impracticalTue Jan 20 2015 - 01:07
INTO welcomes compensation award for teacher asked about ‘homos’Primary teachers’ union, which represented teacher, says discrimination is still occurringTue Jan 20 2015 - 01:00
Teacher wins case over questions on teachers who are ‘homos’Catholic school found to have discriminated on grounds of age, religion and sexual orientationMon Jan 19 2015 - 08:13
Cabinet considered ending free secondary education days before bank guaranteeProposed scrapping of Junior Cert in 2009 estimated to save €24 million a yearMon Jan 19 2015 - 07:32
State may face damages claim over English language school registerHigh Court rules State acted beyond powers in setting up accreditation schemeThu Jan 15 2015 - 22:40
Teachers strike set to go ahead after talks fail to break impasseUnions say they ‘remain resolute in opposition’ to school-based assessmentWed Jan 14 2015 - 17:11
Primary results due to better teachers and extra resourcesInvestment in teacher training is a factor in improving literacy and numeracy standardsTue Jan 13 2015 - 01:01
Cog Notes: Roddy Doyle concerned about how Fighting Words might work as part of junior cycleHe and co-founder Seán Love advise against any form of assessment that would add pressure or take away from students’ enjoymentTue Jan 13 2015 - 00:00
Gardaí to be contacted over Shelbourne College student feesEnglish language school seeking voluntary liquidation, says immigration serviceMon Jan 12 2015 - 20:55
Primary literacy and numeracy rise for first time since 1980Despite progress no real reduction in gap between disadvantaged urban schools and othersMon Jan 12 2015 - 16:42
Refusal by teachers to assess students is a ‘step back’, says Finnish expertCommunity schools back junior cycle reforms ahead of January 22nd strikeMon Jan 12 2015 - 01:02
Call to pay maths graduates bonus to go into teachingConcern over qualifications of maths teachers despite upskilling programmeSun Jan 11 2015 - 21:55
Junior cycle talks set for next week ahead of teachers’ strikeUnions prepare for January 22nd walk-out but will engage ‘without preconditions’Fri Jan 09 2015 - 17:10
Public-private deal puts onus on builders to maintain schoolsFour new schools the first projects being delivered under €1.4bn stimulus packageThu Jan 08 2015 - 21:08
Plan for Leaving Cert computer science module ‘tokenistic’New ‘fourth’ tier of Maths proposed to deal with criticism of existing curriculumThu Jan 08 2015 - 01:00
‘Catholic first’ school admissions policies may be illegalMinister for Education Jan O’Sullivan aims to speed up process of switching patronageSat Jan 03 2015 - 01:00
Forum head calls on church to speed up schools handoverPatronage forum chairman suggests cutting funding if no progress occursFri Jan 02 2015 - 07:22
Segregation concerns over transfer of school patronageCatholic schools’ spokesman Michael Drumm says ‘amalgamation is way forward’Fri Jan 02 2015 - 07:20
Make-or-break year for educational reformJan O’Sullivan will have to balance electoral and administrative demandsWed Dec 31 2014 - 01:47
Student grants: Cavan, Monaghan and Donegal students most likely to get paymentsOnly 44 per cent of students from Dublin get awards from Susi compared to 68 per cent from Border countiesWed Dec 31 2014 - 01:00
O’Sullivan signals philosophy to be taught in schoolsPlan for course in philosophical ‘concepts and ideas’ as part of junior cycle changesTue Dec 30 2014 - 01:01
Garda ‘exceeded powers’ in detaining protesters during Reagan’s 1984 visitState waswarned against contesting case taken by women rounded up from peace campSat Dec 27 2014 - 01:00
State fought David Norris case despite defeat seeming ‘unavoidable’‘No real prospect’ of arguing homosexuality ban was necessary for protection of moralsSat Dec 27 2014 - 01:00
Vatican disinclined to invest in ‘poor’ states like Ireland, TK Whitaker toldDublin sounded out Holy See about possibility of investment in mid-1960sSat Dec 27 2014 - 01:00
FitzGerald backed nationalisation of Irish Sweepstakes, 1984 files showTaoiseach was lobbied by Frank Flannery of Rehab, who was concerned over rival lotterySat Dec 27 2014 - 01:00
Dukes accused Mitchell of questioning his authority in Irish Shipping rowMinister for communucations wanted company to be kept running until end of 1985Sat Dec 27 2014 - 01:00
Taoisigh advised not to endorse Jury’s ‘blarney’ cabaretOfficial noted ‘How Are Things in Glocca Morra?’ listed as one of ‘most beautiful songs’Sat Dec 27 2014 - 01:00
The real 1984 was more Flann O’Brien than George OrwellState papers from 30 years ago depict a country more disorganised than dystopianSat Dec 27 2014 - 01:00
One in four graduates who found work had emigratedReport shows graduates working abroad more than doubled since 2008Mon Dec 22 2014 - 06:47
Computer scientists snapped up for jobs while arts graduates struggleOnly a third of humanities graduates in jobs felt their education was relevantMon Dec 22 2014 - 01:00
16 extra schools to benefit from expanded building programmeFermoy Gaelscoil and one of Ireland’s oldest schools to get new buildingsThu Dec 18 2014 - 18:07
Solicitor for abuse victims in schools criticises ‘cynical’ redress planJames MacGuill says he cannot advise his clients based on information from GovernmentWed Dec 17 2014 - 15:26
High cost of redress scheme informed ‘minimalist’ offer from the StateThe package is a fraction of the meaximum award under the redress schemeWed Dec 17 2014 - 01:00
School abuse survivors offered up to €84,000 in cases against StateLouise O’Keeffe criticises limiting of compensationTue Dec 16 2014 - 22:13
Union says austerity behind junior cert reformsLatest figures show scrapping Junior Cert would save over €20 million a yearTue Dec 16 2014 - 15:11
Good year/bad year: 2014 in educationOn the bright side, part-time teachers got a better deal and there were gains for women’s rights in academia; on the downside, Irish universities slipped in the rankings and there was little progress on pluralism in schoolsTue Dec 16 2014 - 00:00
Quotes of the year in education: ‘The boys that did the honours maths led us to ruination’Warnings against ‘self-satisfaction’ at Trinity and a Blackrock College war cry were among the other memorable quotes of 2014Tue Dec 16 2014 - 00:00
Education preview: What’s in store for 2015?Deeper Sino-Irish relations, an increased emphasis on philanthropy and a teachers’ pay claim are among our predictions for the new yearTue Dec 16 2014 - 00:00
Teachers to hold second strike day on January 22ndUnions say they are open to further talks on junior cycle but insist on external assessmentFri Dec 12 2014 - 13:30
Extra payments to retiring teachers take up €25m of budget overrunMinister seeks third-party intervention to avert another strike by secondary teachersWed Dec 10 2014 - 18:48
Parents accuse teachers of trying to dictate terms of reformTeacher strike ‘raises fundamental legal and contractual questions’, says parents’ councilTue Dec 09 2014 - 09:06
Christmas shopping: when did spending become a civic duty?Let’s make more sacrifices but this time for the right reasons – to build a fairer societyMon Dec 08 2014 - 01:00
Teacher unions prepare for second strike date in JanuaryNew figures indicate the state could save €3.5 million from school-based assessmentWed Dec 03 2014 - 01:00
Shops gain from ‘Teacher Tuesday’ but will students?The battle lines are being drawn for or against the existing Junior CertWed Dec 03 2014 - 01:00
More than 730 schools shut as teachers’ strike goes aheadSchool gates close on 333,175 post-primary students despite efforts to avert actionTue Dec 02 2014 - 09:35
Cog Notes: Change is in the air for Irish business schoolsDeans gather to consider future direction of entrepreneurial educationTue Dec 02 2014 - 01:00
Unions eye compromise but teachers’ strike to go aheadEmployers group Ibec urges minister not to ‘row back’ on junior cycle reform planMon Dec 01 2014 - 01:01
Q: What do school ‘feeder’ tables tell us?The tables are not perfect and they carry qualifications, but they fill a voidSat Nov 29 2014 - 01:03
Corruption claims should not halt junior cycle reformJan O’Sullivan rejects Fintan O’Toole’s view that ‘teachers should not be trusted to mark their students’Fri Nov 28 2014 - 08:24
