Feeder schools list: Record numbers of students from disadvantaged areas progress to third level
The number of school-leavers from disadvantaged backgrounds progressing to college has climbed towards record levels.
The figures are contained in the 2024 Irish Times Feeder School list, which provides a school-by-school guide of progression rates to third level this year.
About 80 per cent of school-leavers nationally went to third level in 2024.
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News in Ireland
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- Complete Savings: ‘I had no idea I signed up– I’ve had a €18 taken off my credit card each month: “I’m just off the phone with Complete Savings trying to get a refund of transactions over six months,” begins a mail from a reader called Mark.
- State must pay €2.8m to pension fund in landmark ruling: The State must pay €2.8 million into a liquidated company’s workers’ pension scheme following a landmark ruling by the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC).
- Secret teacher: Was Michael O’Leary right about teachers after all?: It may surprise you to know that the reasons teachers are demoralised in their job has nothing to do with the cost of rent or better money abroad. Instead, it has everything to do with the current model for schooling, which is stressing out educators, students and parents alike. It makes working in an Amazon fulfilment centre look like a Zen retreat.
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World
- ‘Chaos and instability’: Joy unconfined in Syria after fall of Assad but future remains unclear: The road to Damascus is lined with torn-down posters of Bashar al-Assad. The 120km car journey from Beirut, the capital of neighbouring Lebanon, should take only take two hours, but until early on Sunday the border crossing was dotted with checkpoints, including a dreaded one where arrivals had their names checked to find anyone “listed”., reports Sally Hayden in DAmascus
The Big Read
- Luigi Mangione: Manhattan murder manhunt ends in everyday American fashion at McDonald’s: The ending to the Manhattan murder manhunt which commanded international speculation for six straight days and nights could not have been more ordinary or everyday American. Over the course of a matter of hours, the intense fascination shifted from “who?” to “why?”, writes Keith Duggan
Opinion
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Business
- Can I work for my foreign employer from my home in Ireland?:I’d like some advice regarding my current job situation to ensure I’m not doing anything illegal or risking future consequences. I work for a German company. Although I’m fully remote, I reside in Ireland.
Sports
- No game illustrated the widening gulf between Europe’s elite and the rest than Toulouse’s mauling of Ulster: The opening weekend of the Champions Cup underlined one common theme throughout much of the competition’s history, namely that pedigree counts.
- Daily Mail vs Kneecap: Belfast rap trio’s ‘anti-British’ film has the newspaper up in arms again: News reaches us that Kneecap, the Belfast rap outfit currently bossing it with their eponymous first film, are devastated to have drawn the ire of the Daily Mail. It was never their intent to offend the paper of middle England. No doubt an apology will be forthcoming.here, writes Donald Clarke
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