Schools may have to cut access to facilities in evenings due to funding shortfallsRecruitment embargo on maintenance staff is raising health and safety concernsTue Apr 09 2019 - 19:51
Hundreds of ‘invisible’ children excluded from education – reportChildren with autism have been expelled or withdrawn due to inadequate supports, say familiesMon Apr 08 2019 - 00:00
Focus on autism: ‘Riley has been rejected by 37 schools’Nicole Duggan has been trying to find a place for her son since he was three months oldMon Apr 08 2019 - 00:00
‘My child was expelled at six. We’re in 2019... Our children are invisible’Hundreds of children with autism are being failed by the State education systemMon Apr 08 2019 - 00:00
Autism waiting lists: ‘Once you get a diagnosis, it’s like going to war’James Field is due to start school next September but is unable to get a placeMon Apr 08 2019 - 00:00
Anxiety ‘epidemic’ leaving guidance counsellors struggling to copeDemand for support rising for self-harm and suicidal ideation in secondary schoolsSun Apr 07 2019 - 19:05
Scaremongering and fear: The Dublin Catholic school rowEveryone agrees churches run too many schools, but nobody wants theirs to leave firstSat Apr 06 2019 - 06:00
Teachers may face fitness-to-practise complaints over social media useDraft guidelines require teachers not to make Facebook friends with studentsSat Apr 06 2019 - 02:00
Dublin school patronage vote suspended over ‘misinformation’Catholic Archdiocese says parents should be fully informed amid claims Christmas ‘will be cancelled’Fri Apr 05 2019 - 17:31
Universities say they may have to limit number of Irish students due to funding shortageIrish Universities Association warns of intolerable strain on university systemThu Apr 04 2019 - 01:00
McHugh to review process for selecting schools for divestment‘Inaccurate claims’ about patronage creating fear and uncertainty, says MinisterThu Apr 04 2019 - 00:26
Irish university graduates earn more from degrees than in UKStudy shows students receive €100,000 more over lifetime than if they had forgone degreeThu Apr 04 2019 - 00:01
Pupils in divested schools ‘will not be prevented’ from celebrating ChristmasCatholic schools in north Dublin are resisting plan to divest their patronageTue Apr 02 2019 - 21:50
Removing school’s Catholic ethos would be ‘Brexit-type disaster’, parents toldResistance to Government request to divest Catholic patronage in north DublinTue Apr 02 2019 - 14:55
Older schools to be transformed into top-rated energy efficient buildingsGovernment-funded pilot project is model for national programme to retrofit schoolsFri Mar 29 2019 - 00:01
Call for students in disadvantaged schools to get extra CAO pointsSchool management body president says equality of access needed in higher educationThu Mar 28 2019 - 19:17
SNAs to be allocated to schools based on social profilesPilot scheme breaks link between a diagnosis and access to special needs assistantsWed Mar 27 2019 - 17:04
Students call on Taoiseach to commit to publicly-funded higher education systemLeo Varadkar rules out student loans or increases in annual €3,000 contributionWed Mar 27 2019 - 16:54
Leaving Cert students may be assessed over two yearsProposed shake-up could result in biggest changes to State exam in half a centuryWed Mar 27 2019 - 00:40
Leaving Cert: Senior cycle review seeks update to 21st centuryWith rapid advances in automation and artificial intelligence, skills for work success are changing fastWed Mar 27 2019 - 00:29
Leaving Cert ‘too academic’ say groups consulted in senior-cycle reviewConsensus emerges for more technical and creative pathways for Leaving Cert studentsWed Mar 27 2019 - 00:18
TCD newspaper’s future to be put to referendum following bugging controversyMove follows row over use of a recording device to report hazing allegationsSun Mar 24 2019 - 19:19
Donogh O’Malley’s speech announcing free secondary education recreated by sonActor Daragh O’Malley delivers father’s seminal 1967 announcementFri Mar 22 2019 - 14:59
School principal refuses to return pupils to ‘dire’ classroom conditionsCharleville CBS Primary school demands plans for new building within weeksFri Mar 22 2019 - 07:46
Six new judges for Court of Appeal to help cut waiting times for casesDelays of almost two years for civil cases to be heardFri Mar 22 2019 - 00:00
Shortage of college places looms unless State invests in higher education, say campaignersStudents and lecturers stage lunchtime protests to highlight ‘growing crisis’Thu Mar 21 2019 - 20:50
Rooskey locals express relief at decision to scrap direct provision planDecision not to open centre at former hotel follows ‘difficulties with lease agreement’Thu Mar 21 2019 - 19:25
Schools encouraged to create ‘safe spaces’ for LGBT studentsHandbook for secondary schools on how to set up LGBT-friendly after-school clubsWed Mar 20 2019 - 23:16
Schools invited to commemorate Famine by planting Lumper potatoesVariety which millions of Irish depended on was destroyed by blight from 1845 onwardsWed Mar 20 2019 - 20:05
More than 100 Catholic primary schools have closed over past decadeMultidenominational is the fastest growing category of school by ethosWed Mar 20 2019 - 01:51
Injecting, drug dealing, bloodied wipes, ‘the kids see everything’Principal of Dublin national school says authorities are ignoring impact on pupilsWed Mar 20 2019 - 01:13
Colleges risk losing funding if sexual consent classes not providedReport ordered by Minister recommends ‘transparent and accountable’ protocolsTue Mar 19 2019 - 14:00
Cultural change needed to make campuses safer for third-level studentsAnalysis: Sexual harassment and rape remain major issues on campusTue Mar 19 2019 - 01:00
Consent on campus: ‘We’re building zero tolerance to sexual harassment’UCC’s ‘bystander intervention’ is being made available to all 22,000 studentsTue Mar 19 2019 - 01:00
Why do so many Leaving Cert students skip the Irish exam?Is it fear or loathing that made 9,500 students sit out the test in 2016 – and does it matter?Sat Mar 16 2019 - 06:00
School climate strikes pose dilemma for principalsAny move to endorse walkouts poses welfare and safety risks for studentsFri Mar 15 2019 - 07:00
World’s oldest college debating society to celebrate 250th anniversaryTrinity College Dublin Historical Society to celebrate its gilded, and star-studded, historyThu Mar 14 2019 - 01:00
Alan Hawe was not facing disciplinary threat, school saysCastlerahan NS says reputation of staff damaged by claims killer accessed porn on premisesTue Mar 12 2019 - 16:07
Thousands of students opt not to sit Leaving Cert Irish exam each yearNew data shows thousands of pupils without exemptions are choosing not to sit examMon Mar 11 2019 - 01:36
Sharp drop in CAO applications from UK amid Brexit uncertaintyDemand up for language, humanities courses and down for journalism, theologySat Mar 09 2019 - 06:00
Prescription drugs implicated in most deaths by overdoseJust 5% of drug-related deaths are among people who inject drugsFri Mar 08 2019 - 00:01
Women earn 16% less than men in the European Union, report findsEuropean Commission report calls for greater steps to narrow gender pay gapThu Mar 07 2019 - 18:05
Inadequate numbers of trained staff at centre for vulnerable adultsReport finds some staff not trained to give medication to residentsThu Mar 07 2019 - 17:55
Government rules out review of plan to ‘demote’ geography in junior cycleVaradkar says making too many subjects compulsory risks overloading curriculumThu Mar 07 2019 - 17:16
Higher education fees for students from Northern Ireland to be frozenAmendment to Brexit Bill will protect existing fees regime in event of hard BrexitWed Mar 06 2019 - 22:50
‘Critical’ shortage of engineering graduates55% decrease in civil and building engineering graduates over the last five yearsWed Mar 06 2019 - 17:26
Eight undocumented Leaving Cert students face ‘limbo’ after examsBrazilian students arrived in Galway during boom years with their working parentsTue Mar 05 2019 - 19:02
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland to be given university statusChange will help in securing ‘top-level’ staff, research funding and students, CEO saysTue Mar 05 2019 - 16:41
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
