Students with intellectual disability lack further optionsFunding at third-level restricted to certain coursesWed Aug 13 2014 - 06:00
Calls for ‘inequitable’ guidance counselling cuts to be reversedReport showing working class students depend on in-school advice ‘strengthens argument’Wed Aug 13 2014 - 01:00
Social class of school a key factor in third level attendanceCreating ‘high expectations’ in working class schools key to boosting equality – reportTue Aug 12 2014 - 01:56
Stress in sixth year makes transition to third level more difficult, says ESRI‘Mismatch’ in teaching and learning modes between secondary and higher educationTue Aug 12 2014 - 01:44
Students who ‘fail’ higher level should get points for effortProposal aims to encourage Leaving Cert students to stick to honours coursesMon Aug 11 2014 - 18:14
Liquidator appointed to Dublin language schoolBCT Institute closed last month with debts of more than €350,000Fri Aug 08 2014 - 19:42
The moral sense of Down man Francis HutchesonThe forgotten Irish philosopher liked to think the best of peopleFri Aug 08 2014 - 01:00
DCU to boost off-campus students with digital planOnline learners ‘not recognised’ by current third-level funding modelThu Aug 07 2014 - 18:20
Older people living alone urged to let out rooms to studentsPilot project by UCD students seeks to tackle accommodation crisis and lonelinessThu Aug 07 2014 - 01:09
US has ‘blood on its hands’ over arms sales to IsraelCondemnation of deaths ‘deeply cynical’, says Amnesty’s Colm O’GormanWed Aug 06 2014 - 12:50
CAO points set to rise for construction courses figures showScience and humanities expected to remain largely unchangedMon Jul 28 2014 - 01:01
Replace annual charge with student loans, says UCD presidentProf Andrew Deeks calls for new model for ‘underfunded’ third-level sectorSat Jul 05 2014 - 01:05
‘In terms of world profile, UCD is punching below its weight’Six months into the top job at the university, Australian Andrew Deeks is thinking long-term funding, staff morale, the pursuit of excellence and a shot at the Top 100Sat Jul 05 2014 - 01:00
Trinity seeks to triple intake of Northern Ireland studentsRecent decline in numbers from North linked to requirement to have four A-levelsFri Jul 04 2014 - 07:19
Is the selfie an act of narcissism?‘Byron scratched his name into the supreme temple at Sounion, and compared with that a selfie is quite harmless,’ says philosopher Simon BlackburnFri Jul 04 2014 - 01:00
Quinn’s reforms were never going to be realised but a start has been madeNext Minister can build on successes but gets a ‘hospital pass’ on third level feesThu Jul 03 2014 - 01:00
Catholic school guidelines on inclusion to be published later this yearBishops welcome Department’s rejection of ‘one-size-fits-all’ modelWed Jul 02 2014 - 17:21
Ruairi Quinn report card: B for pluralism but D for higher education reformJunior Cycle, special educational needs, and third-level funding top next education minister’s in-trayWed Jul 02 2014 - 16:31
Quinn’s reforming zeal acknowledged by educatorsASTI says it was ‘unfortunate’ his ministry came at time of financial crisisWed Jul 02 2014 - 13:19
Crucifixes in schools should be joined by other religious artefactsDepartment of Education says change of school patronage ‘has not been as rapid as envisaged’Wed Jul 02 2014 - 08:08
Schools urged to publish polices showing they are ‘genuinely inclusive’Department says change of religious patronage ‘has not been as rapid as envisaged’Tue Jul 01 2014 - 21:09
Former union leader to chair expert group on third level fundingPanel led by Peter Cassells to look at revenue raising measures such as a graduate taxTue Jul 01 2014 - 15:40
Audit of primary teachers sought as pupil numbers rise 10,000Call for provision of sufficient teachers in the ‘priority subjects’ of the futureMon Jun 30 2014 - 07:59
Education league tables having ‘detrimental’ effectSocial scientists tells Maynooth conference policy should not be ‘solely based on data’Fri Jun 27 2014 - 16:33
All Hallows in talks to rescue adult learning programmeDCU president says many aspects of ‘Alba’ system would resonate with own value systemFri Jun 27 2014 - 08:52
Why do you feel compelled to flee boredom?Market values have turned summer into a platform for further consumption and turned all of us into a ‘resource to be used up’Fri Jun 27 2014 - 01:00
Quinn moves to prevent compilation of school league tablesMinister secures Cabinet approval on widening of scope of Freedom of Information ActThu Jun 26 2014 - 09:57
Children with special needs ‘partially excluded’ from schoolParents group says announcement of latest SNA allocation gives little time to planThu Jun 26 2014 - 08:33
Medical school exam not compromised, inquiry findsHPat review group wants to put prep schools ‘out of the market’Thu Jun 26 2014 - 01:00
Dozens of primary schools face closure ‘within two years’Dublin Archdiocese tells Oireachtas committee schools ‘eating into reserves’ to stay openThu Jun 26 2014 - 01:00
Scholarship honours murdered German studentThomas Heinrich Scholarship awarded to student at Griffith College DublinWed Jun 25 2014 - 01:00
UCD suspends allocation of campus accommodation‘Technical glitch’ cited for problems with email systemSat Jun 21 2014 - 09:07
Transferring power from politicians to ‘unelected agents’ can help democracyPolitical philosopher Philip Pettit delivers counter-intuitive message at Garret FitzGerald summer school lectureSat Jun 21 2014 - 09:01
How will you fill your 168-hour week?The most ambitious students in the US don’t waste their non-study time “socialising”. There are coding languages to be learnt, jobs to be sought, enterprises to be foundedSat Jun 21 2014 - 01:00
Quinn advises teachers to study RE to boost their job prospectsCatholic and Protestant teacher training colleges united in new secular homeSat Jun 21 2014 - 01:00
How can we be free from corporate domination?Philosopher Philip Pettit warns that we are holding corporations ‘less effectively to their responsibilities than we hold individuals to theirs’Fri Jun 20 2014 - 11:01
Schools support system to be reformedNew plan for allocating teacher supports seeks to end ‘unfair’ and ‘inequitable’ systemThu Jun 19 2014 - 01:00
‘You are hoping for a worse diagnosis when the child is going to school. It’s terrible’‘The last thing you want to get with a child is a mild diagnosis because they lose all support’Thu Jun 19 2014 - 01:00
Sydney diocese rejects McAleese claim of ‘old boys club’Cardinal Pell appointment not done through ‘transparent process’, former president claimsWed Jun 18 2014 - 19:37
Department admits circular on SNAs was ‘badly phrased’Concern raised by schools about added ‘bureaucracy’ in applying for supportsWed Jun 18 2014 - 01:00
Displaced language students to get 70% discountMinisters announce relief plan for hundreds of students affected by school closuresTue Jun 17 2014 - 18:39
McAleese: asking bishops’ advice on family life ‘bonkers’Former president tells UCD audience it is ‘profoundly wrong’ to ask celibates to carry out such a reviewTue Jun 17 2014 - 07:19
Chinese students make up to 10% of non-EU student population at UCDChinese official lays foundation stone for university’s new Confucius InstituteMon Jun 16 2014 - 01:00
Parents and students will have ‘right to consultation’ over school policiesEducation ‘passport’ for entry to post-primary to be compulsory from SeptemberMon Jun 16 2014 - 01:00
Have you a moral duty to care for others?Kant’s lesson for nursing home operators: people shouldn’t be treated simply as a means to an endFri Jun 13 2014 - 01:00
Colleges face financial penalties if they fail to meet new targetsUCD, TCD say non-EU student numbers will be up 50 per cent by 2016Thu Jun 12 2014 - 09:08
Working group on ‘future funding’ of higher education may not report until end of 2015Establishment of new review pushes decision on college fees beyond electionThu Jun 12 2014 - 01:07
Universities’ plans to double overseas students carries risksQuinn highlights need for industry – as ‘the beneficiary’ of third level education – to play funding roleThu Jun 12 2014 - 01:04
Staff-student ratios ‘considerably out of line’ with international normsUCD president says funding crisis is ‘incredibly serious’ for IrelandThu Jun 12 2014 - 01:01
Higher education competing well internationally, review showsHigher Education System Performance Report says institutions ‘flexible’ over pressuresWed Jun 11 2014 - 10:33
