Knife crime: how can the problem be addressed without making it worse?
Officials warn well-intentioned initiatives could be counter-productive
Boy who fractured foot in woodwork class awarded €18,000
Court told saw had fallen off table at Larkin Community College in Dublin
Regency Hotel trial collapse adds to fears of Dublin’s north inner city
Locals worry Hutch-Kinahan feud will continue at a low level amid Garda wind-down
New project aims to boost inner city students’ chances of securing tech jobs
Schools to take part in programme to give students career pathways into digital economy
Shortlist for national portrait prize to go on show at National Gallery of Ireland
Photography features strongly, with Kim Haughton’s study of the late JP Donleavy, Fionn McCann’s Cezanne’s Apple and Mandy O’Neill’s striking study, Diane
Lucan teen born in direct provision had no school place since June
Place offered to boy is without special needs assistant and resources
Drama in the classroom is a primary concern
Drama in education aims to give students the tools to express themselves and imagine alternative worlds, but formal exposure to it stops after primary level
How to hook students with digital bait
A digital literacy ‘short course’, one of a range being developed for junior cycle, excites the students and links with their other subjects
The Abbey’s school project: ‘Only one of these students had even been to the theatre’
The Abbey’s Theatre-Making and Citizenship course has been piloted in an inner-city Dublin school, and the positive effects on students have been manifold
Teachers strike reaction: ‘We’re trying to protect the integrity of the Junior Cert’
Lack of direction from Department of Education over what the new initiative might entail
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