Teachers may face ‘fitness to teach’ complaints if they do not support special needs pupilsAutism charity issues warning following ASTI and TUI instructions to membersMon Mar 04 2019 - 00:05
State and students ‘should bear cost’ of third-level educationSimmering debate on loan scheme sidelined in latest survey which endorses status quoMon Mar 04 2019 - 00:01
Hawe murders: Flanagan to review options for inquiryMinister to meet mother and sister of woman murdered, along with three sons, by husbandThu Feb 28 2019 - 03:00
Have your say: How would you change the Leaving Cert?Students say senior cycle pressure is causing stress, burnout and mental health problemsWed Feb 27 2019 - 10:00
Thousands of children with mental health concerns on waiting lists for assessmentsChildren’s Rights Alliance expresses concern over impact of delays on young peopleTue Feb 26 2019 - 13:24
Secondary schools to share teachers in bid to ease staff shortagesMany schools struggling to hire teachers in subjects such as maths, science and languagesMon Feb 25 2019 - 01:01
Student literacy levels: 'It is almost as if they are word blind'‘Some of the stuff I was grading was the worst I’ve ever seen – even from good students’Mon Feb 25 2019 - 01:00
Irish trainee teachers being offered financial sweeteners to work abroadScience and maths teachers hired to work abroad despite acute shortages in Irish classroomsThu Feb 21 2019 - 17:56
Multi-denominational patrons for 12 new primary schoolsEducate Together awarded patronage of seven new commuter belt schoolsThu Feb 21 2019 - 13:28
Education board dedicating ‘significant resources’ to Garda investigationCriminal probe into concerns over spending of taxpayers’ moneyWed Feb 20 2019 - 20:39
‘Huge drop’ in literacy levels of Irish university graduates – OECD studyUp to 6% of Irish university graduates are functionally illiterateWed Feb 20 2019 - 18:28
Arts graduates earn least while teachers earn most, survey findsHigher Education Authority reports 90% of graduates get jobs in IrelandMon Feb 18 2019 - 00:01
Economic recovery boosting prospects for college graduatesStarting salaries rising, employment rates climbing and emigration going downMon Feb 18 2019 - 00:01
Employment rates for college graduates at boom-time levelsOf working graduates, 90% find employment in Ireland with average starting pay at €33kMon Feb 18 2019 - 00:01
Today’s unfit teenagers. Tomorrow’s diabeticsSome 15-year-olds are less healthy than their grandparents. How do we avoid an epidemic?Sat Feb 16 2019 - 06:00
Leaving Cert students set to receive college offers four days earlier than normalChanges mean students will have to wait just 48 hours for offers after resultsFri Feb 15 2019 - 18:51
Too many people in Ireland going to college and unsuited to itIt seems increasingly clear that student aptitude should determine learning pathwaysFri Feb 15 2019 - 03:00
Parents need to learn higher education is not the only measure of successETBI chief says many students may flourish in more hands-on further education coursesFri Feb 15 2019 - 00:04
Is it too easy to get into some third-level college courses?Significant number of students with low CAO points are strugglingThu Feb 14 2019 - 01:00
Significant gender gap in number completing college coursesStudy shows male students with lower Leaving Cert points more likely to drop outThu Feb 14 2019 - 01:00
Teachers who do not support students with special needs may be in breach of lawDepartment of Education issues warning to secondary teachers’ unionsThu Feb 14 2019 - 01:00
Some third-level computing courses have 80% drop-out rateHigh non-completion rates in certain areas of ‘huge concern’ to education authoritiesThu Feb 14 2019 - 00:00
Hard Brexit could put major pressure on ‘creaking’ third-level sectorIrish students may stay home from UK over fees uncertainty, Oireachtas committee hearsWed Feb 13 2019 - 06:00
Trinity team secures place in ‘Irish Times’ Debate finalStudent teams debated decision to invite Pope to Ireland in hotly contested competitionMon Feb 11 2019 - 21:57
Some teens’ cardiovascular health akin to that of 60-year-oldsAge indicates a trend towards neglecting fitness in the lead-up to the Leaving CertMon Feb 11 2019 - 01:00
Students in south Dublin warned over mumps outbreakCases of the virus confirmed in Trinity College and some schoolsSun Feb 10 2019 - 18:22
University status for RCSI would boost efforts to attract students and fundingStatus matters more than ever in fiercely competitive global education marketplaceThu Feb 07 2019 - 02:11
College of Surgeons in Ireland to become a universityNew legislation would enable 235-year-old college to secure university statusThu Feb 07 2019 - 00:58
Analysis: Carter case appeal puts Government in a thorny positionMinister promoting greater access to third level while arguing no one has a right to itWed Feb 06 2019 - 16:00
Minister to argue no right of access to higher education in Carter appealCourt ‘erred’ in Leaving Cert student’s case over CAO points, Joe McHugh believesWed Feb 06 2019 - 01:05
Shortage of examiners in lead up to Leaving Cert oral examsState Examinations Commission may recruit teachers right up to start of examsMon Feb 04 2019 - 01:00
Employers must make workplaces more ‘age-friendly’ for over-65sDCU report says proportion of workers aged over 65 is set to increase dramaticallyMon Feb 04 2019 - 00:20
CAO applications rise to over 73,000 for higher education coursesModest 400 applicant increase reverses last year’s fall in applicationsFri Feb 01 2019 - 18:36
NUI to maintain requirement for mandatory IrishLong-standing policy has been under review in light of diverse student populationFri Feb 01 2019 - 00:36
Overtaxed substitute teachers to be repaidTemporary staff have had hundreds of euro wrongly deducted from their wagesThu Jan 31 2019 - 20:42
CIT and IT Tralee staff vote in favour of creating new universityFormal application to create technological university for Munster likely within weeksThu Jan 31 2019 - 20:19
Erasmus students will be able complete stay in UK in event of no-deal BrexitHundreds of Irish students participating in Erasmus programme had faced uncertaintyWed Jan 30 2019 - 18:51
Trinity investigates claims boat club members were whipped with bamboo sticksInitiation ceremony allegedly involved members being told to strip to their underwearTue Jan 29 2019 - 20:14
Third-level system ‘in danger’ from underfunding and rising student numbersResearch finds Ireland is one of only two European countries where system is at riskTue Jan 29 2019 - 18:22
Boarding schools hold new appeal for modern familiesKing’s Hospital: 350th anniversary, bullying allegations and growing numbers of boardersMon Jan 28 2019 - 00:26
More children leaving earlier in morning to get to schoolChildren with long commutes or in need of pre-school care travelling earlier than beforeMon Jan 28 2019 - 00:24
Books better than screens for students, study findsYoung ‘digital natives’ more likely to skim longer pieces and not take notes when using screensMon Jan 28 2019 - 00:12
Transition year students to have access to sexual consent workshopsNUI Galway researchers devise new national ‘active consent’ programmeMon Jan 28 2019 - 00:00
‘To survive the Irish school system, you have to become middle class’In Irish schools, middle-class girls thrive but boys from working-class backgrounds struggleSat Jan 26 2019 - 06:00
Substitute teachers may be hired on full salaries to ease ‘crisis’Many schools now rely on unqualified or retired staff to fill posts, conference hearsFri Jan 25 2019 - 13:56
One in four primary schools have homeless pupils, survey findsSchools are acting as a safe haven for ‘exhausted’ homeless children, review saysFri Jan 25 2019 - 03:00
UL students may have got wrong exam results, PAC hearsUnpublished report highlighted concerns over university’s student records systemThu Jan 24 2019 - 19:21
St Michael’s House special school in ‘temporary’ accommodation for 36 years‘We feel we’re falling through the cracks of the system’Thu Jan 24 2019 - 06:00
Deaf people to have opportunity to teach at primary level for first timeNew pathway to Irish Sign Language teaching degree launched at DCUThu Jan 24 2019 - 00:01
Special schools struggling to cope as pupils’ needs become more complexMany school principals worried about behavioural problems and violent behaviourThu Jan 24 2019 - 00:01
