Education

Student Hub email digest: Dublin disorder; Call for two-state solution in Israel; The Crown; Sorcha Richardson; The Late Late Toy Show, and more.

Fear and anxiety likely to be among issues facing students and staff who witnessed incident or its fallout

Skills and experience count as do better retention rates among older staff freed from the career imperatives of younger colleagues

Solar energy will cut carbon emissions and feed national grid when up to 4,000 schools are closed during summer months

Irish partners include DCU and Fastrack into Information Technology

Schools should not need to fund assessments or therapy through cake sales and non-uniform days

Study says females ‘disadvantaged’ by changes to syllabus over past decade

As rhetoric heats up over links between Irish and Israeli universities, some Jewish students on campus say they feel isolated and fearful

Union leaders predict planned strike action will close every school in the region

Lack of accommodation close to college and fears of unsafe city cycling cited for reduced cycling numbers

There are two main programmes available. If applying, now is the time to get your records in order

Student Hub email digest: TCD library name change; Ryan Tubridy; Napoleon; Molly Martens’ case, Irish cannabis users; Elon Musk; the myth of benevolent capitalism and more...

Move to deliver smaller classes may have ‘intensified’ staff shortage problem, Department of Education secretary general says

Employment rates highest for education courses and lowest for arts and humanities

Taighde Éireann - Research Ireland follows merger of Science Foundation Ireland and Irish Research Council

Eight PhD researchers compete against the clock to distil their niche findings into bite-sized presentations

Berkeley Library was ‘denamed’ last year following controversy over philosopher’s links to slavery

Almost two out of three secondary school leaders say they have unfilled vacancies

Pact for 21st Century Skills, funded by ‘colossal’ surplus in State training fund, was subject of discussion ahead of last month’s budget

Report finds 13 per cent of respondents had been victim of an accommodation scam

Many of those I teach are addicts, and rationalising with addicts about what they are addicted to is pointless

Children are increasingly unable to run, hide and climb at break time for health and safety reasons – but some schools are taking a different approach

Extent of struggle to fill vacant teaching posts revealed in correspondence between principals and Department of Education

There is a growing need for marine scientists working in conservation, offshore renewables, aquaculture and shipping

Workers ‘deserve decent pay’ in midst of cost-of-living crisis, says senior union organiser

Student Hub email digest: Natural Restoration Law; homelessness; NATO agus Ecat; Ireland’s response to Gaza bombardment; how Irish politics have been impacted by Middle East crisis; Jozef Puska; Stradivarius and Camilla Grudova’s The Coiled Serpent reviewed.

New union would represent 40,000 teachers at second and third level

Parents, teachers and scientists are worried – but proving it is another matter

Norma Foley’s plan would see guidelines sent to primary schools where parents wish to introduce a voluntary no-smartphones policy

‘Perfunctory language’ used to describe October 7th attacks by Hamas, says group

Schools are experimenting with ways to ease the stress students are facing – not only from the pandemic, but from life itself

Think of what your child’s strongest aptitudes are and help them identify education or training options in tune with them

Jen Hogan: Children are treated as second-class citizens all too often in this country

Survey reveals 800 vacant teaching posts and projects an additional lack of 1,200 more

Student Hub email digest: Gaza Strip violence; Cillian Murphy; President Michael D Higgins; Climate Change; Donal Skehan; Calexico and Mark Moriarty.

Distinguished academic takes over from Mary Harney who has held the role since 2018

Freedom of speech and thought are essential to the principles of education and our universities must reflect that

Adult Education Tutors Organisation members protest at Dáil over staffing offer they decribe as ‘unacceptable’

Dundalk institute has 500 staff and 5,000 students and has been running deficits in recent years

‘Children are not being given enough opportunities to negotiate the world on their own’