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
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
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
Secondary schools undermined by Irish teacher shortage, survey findsTUI study states students in most schools taught by teachers not qualified in subjectsWed Jan 23 2019 - 00:00
IT Tralee ‘overstaffed and has significant money issues’ - reportFinancial challenges at Kerry institute raise alarm at CIT over proposed mergerWed Jan 23 2019 - 00:00
New apprenticeships aim to boost options for school leaversEngineering, hairdressing and wind turbine maintenance to form part of ‘earn and learn’ coursesTue Jan 22 2019 - 22:05
Dublin’s King’s Hospital school marks 350th anniversaryFormer pupils of fee-paying school in Palmerstown include Taoiseach Leo VaradkarSat Jan 19 2019 - 13:09
Trinity students object to pressure of ‘impossible’ exam changesStudents highlight ‘steep decline’ in participation in clubs and societiesSat Jan 19 2019 - 12:30
Consideration of student loan scheme for third-level to be delayedGovernment applies to European Commission to carry out detailed economic analysisSat Jan 19 2019 - 00:51
Five schools to undergo detailed structural safety checks this weekendSchools in Dublin, Cork, Meath and Laois built by Western Building Systems to be assessedFri Jan 18 2019 - 18:14
Record number of students now in third levelOf those who graduated with honours degrees, 20% received first-class resultFri Jan 18 2019 - 00:01
Exams body to review rules for bereaved students sitting examsStudent tells of having to sit Leaving Cert exam the day after her mother diedThu Jan 17 2019 - 20:44
Grading changes risk further alienating less academic pupilsAnalysis: Many students already feel our academic secondary school system is rigged against themThu Jan 17 2019 - 10:33
Grade reforms push ‘ill-equipped’ students to take higher-level examsNew study also says the changes have widened gaps for disadvantaged pupilsThu Jan 17 2019 - 00:45
Children who own mobile phones at age nine ‘perform less well’ in academic testsESRI study finds about 40 per cent of Irish children have mobile phone by that ageTue Jan 15 2019 - 12:13
CAO countdown: Industries facing skills shortages battle to attract school-leaversThousands to apply for courses ahead of this month’s application deadlineMon Jan 14 2019 - 01:00
Employers rate further education graduates as highly as college graduatesMultinational firms concerned over standard of foreign languages among school-leaversMon Jan 14 2019 - 00:00
Student teachers to receive financial aid for training costsStudents will need to prove financial distress in order to get any payment, claims the USIMon Jan 14 2019 - 00:00
Mediator to examine minimum employment standards in English language schoolsCollapse of Grafton College has drawn attention to conditions for many working in sectorSun Jan 13 2019 - 19:47
Hard Brexit will not affect fees for Irish studying in UK next yearMinisters respond to concerns that EU exit could lead to dramatic increase in costsFri Jan 11 2019 - 14:50
Teens using Yubo may be at risk – studySocial network dubbed ‘Tinder for teens’ allows for live streaming of video and chatFri Jan 11 2019 - 01:01
Mothers the ‘single biggest influence on student’ career choicesWork needs to be done in telling parents how workplace is changing, conference hearsThu Jan 10 2019 - 16:06
Trinity College Dublin poised for 21st-century makeoverLandmark campus long hidden from many Dubliners’ view to be more accessible to cityThu Jan 10 2019 - 03:00
Trinity College seeks to open ‘imposing’ walls to Dublin’s publicIreland’s oldest university has long been criticised for neglecting surrounding areasThu Jan 10 2019 - 01:00
What issues will dominate Irish education in 2019?Leaving Cert reform, compulsory Irish and sex ed will be key issues in the coming yearTue Jan 08 2019 - 00:00
Leaving Cert deemed by just 4% of pupils as fair test of knowledgeVast majority of students want continuous assessment to ease summer exam pressureMon Jan 07 2019 - 01:00
‘Class gap’ in top universities revealed in latest enrolment figuresFee-paying students much more likely to attend top Dublin-based universitiesMon Jan 07 2019 - 00:00
Minister insists Irish will remain compulsory in schoolDraft proposals aim to simplify the way exemptions to native language awardedFri Jan 04 2019 - 00:01
Government hopes hard Brexit would not affect fees for cross-Border studentsMore than 3,000 higher education students flow across the BorderThu Jan 03 2019 - 19:27
New technological university Ireland’s largest third-level bodyTechnological University Dublin has 28,000 students with Grangegorman main campusTue Jan 01 2019 - 20:24
Irish universities’ grade inflation sparks claims of ‘dumbing down’Authorities reject claims that colleges are under pressure to increase their gradesMon Dec 31 2018 - 00:01
Revealed: the universities most likely to award higher gradesGrade inflation risks undermining confidence in degrees, campaigners claimMon Dec 31 2018 - 00:00
Three charged after knife and hatchet raid at Stillorgan shopGardaí intercept car and recover hammer, axe and cashSun Dec 30 2018 - 23:19
Irish boarding schools see surge in enrolment from ‘Brexit bounce’Fee-paying schools report growing interest from Spanish and German familiesFri Dec 28 2018 - 01:00
Irish boarding schools hope Brexit will cement a return to boom-timePrivate-school pupil numbers on the rise as family incomes return to boom-time highFri Dec 28 2018 - 01:00
