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
Just 1% of Traveller children go on to higher educationNew report shows gaps remain in numbers from marginalised groups at third-levelFri Dec 21 2018 - 00:01
Government to consider changing law on sex educationOireachtas report says religious schools should not use ‘ethos’ as bar to fair educationThu Dec 20 2018 - 12:53
UCD engineer made first president of Ireland’s newest universityProf David FitzPatrick to head Technological University DublinThu Dec 20 2018 - 11:58
Minister slows down school reform in response to concernsSchool admission changes now due to come into force in the 2020/2021 school yearWed Dec 19 2018 - 20:11
ASTI under fire for refusal to implement plans for students with disabilitiesTeachers union’s move condemned as ‘truly shocking discrimination’Wed Dec 19 2018 - 18:19
Q&A: Leaving Cert timetable changes: How will they affect you?Dates set to move for up to a dozen subjectsWed Dec 19 2018 - 15:30
Leaving Cert exams to be extended by two days to minimise timetable clashesMove aims to ease crowded exam schedule which forced students to sit three exams in one dayWed Dec 19 2018 - 13:07
Irish UN peacekeepers to visit all secondary schools under new programmeMore than 700 schools to receive UN flags and copies of UN CharterWed Dec 19 2018 - 12:13
Irish university makes first Brexit-inspired academic appointmentUCC and Oxford jointly hire top quantum scientist, capitalising on uncertainty in UKWed Dec 19 2018 - 06:00
Dublin principal set to lead country’s largest teacher unionINTO general secretary designate John Boyle pledges to help remove inequities in fundingTue Dec 18 2018 - 20:06
Leaving Cert pressure causing stress and ‘burnout’ among pupilsStudents tell official review that senior cycle is crushing their creativityMon Dec 17 2018 - 00:00
Unions concerned by plan to give business bigger say in university fundingIndustry to have central role in oversight of how €300m education fund is spentMon Dec 17 2018 - 00:00
Trinity likely to be hardest hit by disruption to flow of students after Brexit3,400 higher education students cross the Border to studyThu Dec 13 2018 - 19:15
‘Damning’ report finds 50,000 spare seats on State-funded bus servicesSchool transport scheme costs more than €1 million a dayThu Dec 13 2018 - 18:30
Rising cost of school transport scheme may ‘not be sustainable’Government officials say cost-saving and efficiency measures needed for €190m schemeThu Dec 13 2018 - 00:05
Homemakers may be encouraged into workforce to ease skills shortages‘Economically inactive’ groups could be encouraged into labour force with flexible working hoursWed Dec 12 2018 - 06:00
Parents pressure psychologists to grant Irish exemptionsOfficial report finds dislike of Irish linked to bedwetting and refusal to go to schoolWed Dec 12 2018 - 00:39
Parents to vote on patron bodies for 12 new primary schoolsThe schools will be based in areas of Dublin, Kildare, Meath, Wicklow and CorkMon Dec 10 2018 - 00:54
UL pledges to pay executives’ €1.2m pensions from private fundingMove follows C&AG report into controversial spending practices at universityMon Dec 10 2018 - 00:51
Employers to have key say on allocation of education fundingIndustry to have central role in oversight of how €300 million fund is spentMon Dec 10 2018 - 00:00
