Parents have spent over €20bn educating their young, despite free schooling

Policy initiative paved way for decades of prosperity despite resistance by mandarins

No Child 2020: Dark stains remain on the Irish conscience over the treatment of children

Opinion: Many students wonder how they will find accommodation in a housing crisis

Diarmaid Ferriter: Duracell-bunny Fine Gaelers lack philosophical reflection

Can a university have a soul and be driven by priorities other than rankings?

Teachers subjected to two-tier pay system that is compete antithesis of equality

We ask influential figures in Irish education on what needs to come next

Boards to be told to take over community national school patronage from next week

Ireland’s greatest conservative revolutionary forced the state to alter the way it saw itself

His ideas gave new hope to Ireland

Since free education was introduced in the 1960s, Irish parents have spent more than €20 billion putting their children through school

Independent Marie-Louise O’Donnell says the idea is ‘absolutely outrageous’

But it is unacceptable that some un-baptised children are treated like second-class citizens in school choice

The English journalist and naturalist – this paper’s longest-serving columnist – has always been a keen-eyed yet sympathetic chronicler of Irish life. So what does he make of our nation in this centenary year?

Our politicians could benefit from reading some documents at the National Archives

Outgoing chairman of Higher Education Authority says country faces urgent decisions over funding third-level

Admissions policies are another ‘dark stain’ and an affront to the ideals of the Republic

Opinion: It’s often easier to understand the complexities of your own tribe from a distance

While the Government was away from Kildare Street, the seagulls attempted a coup

Dublin delegate claims some TDs open to sharing power after next election

Delegate tells ardfheis talk of party going into government is ‘arrogance beyond belief’

Review: Whitaker’s service to Ireland is well painted but author Anne Chambers’s treatment of her subject is a bit cosy

Many people are more comfortable using a tablet than a pen, says Junior Minister Ciaran Cannon

From parking to plastic bags, and from bins to banking, nothing seems to be free any more. We even have to pay to put air in our tyres in some garages

Budget must protect frontline services, secondary school managers urge

Opinion: Labour trying to pose as if it is no more than an interested bystander