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Key dates for 2025 CAO applications: from early-bird applications to Leaving Cert appeals

Seven factors to consider when making your college application

What should you consider when choosing a college course?

‘It was on television. I could not bear to watch’: Irish film director’s family ‘loses everything’ in Palisades fire

Plan to introduce foreign languages at primary level could ‘divert time from Irish’

It’s time to get rid of the damaging Leaving Cert points race

I worry that if my son doesn’t apply to the CAO he will limit his options

Gender identity not included in draft primary school curriculum

Move to expand Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition internationally welcomed by Tánaiste

Young Scientist exhibition winners: Three Kerry sisters develop app to improve emergency response

Have your say: Are hot school meals too ultra-processed or a nutritious boost for children?

Tension between teachers and special-needs assistants flagged in official report

Young Scientist: ‘Laughter does help learning’ - primary pupils tackle big research questions

AI-driven platform addresses high rate of attrition among PhD students

Young scientist exhibition: Students deploy innovative skills at frontier of renewable energy

Young scientist exhibition: Twin sisters ‘mind the gap’ as they try to modernise study habits

Our education system is in crisis after years of neglect. Now is the time for action

School could return to court to have Enoch Burke sent back to jail after he again defies court order

CAO system should be changed to match Leaving Cert reforms, education experts say

Smartphones are an easy scapegoat for a more profound unhappiness

Crises and controversy: our predictions on what’s next for education in 2025

My son is stressed about the February 1st CAO deadline. Is this really the cut-off point?

The first Leaving Cert 100 years ago: girls-only exams, botany tests and imperial measures

Irish schools ‘crying out’ for guidance on how to tackle issue of influencers like Andrew Tate

Officials contact dozens of secondary schools over high numbers of students exempt from Irish

A crisis years in the making: Second-level pupils in classes without qualified teachers

Hundreds of teaching posts vacant at secondary schools across country, report finds

Breakfast clubs in Deis primary schools: ‘If it wasn’t here and you’d had no breakfast you’d be on the yard hungry’

Taxpayers are subsidising private schools by more than €140m a year

Fees have jumped across many of Ireland’s private secondary schools. Why?