Fintan O’Toole: Ireland’s brilliant education system is a complete fluke
Education is our greatest asset, yet we produce it in an utterly haphazard way
Cuts threaten cross-Border teacher education co-operation
Opinion: Hundreds of teacher education students have trained in schools on either side of the Border under an innovative scheme
Professor who helped shape State’s education policy
John Coolahan obituary: Kerryman brought expertise to international stage
Tributes paid to John Coolahan, the ‘father of Irish education’
Kerry-born teacher was pivotal figure in Irish education for more than 50 years
Sonia O’Sullivan awarded honorary doctorate at DCU
‘The enormity of the individual ambition became inextricably intertwined with that of the nation’
Fifty years on since ‘free education’, it’s time to reflect on who the system really serves
The 1960s ushered in an ambitious and strategic education policy approach
Educate Together says patronage transfer plans ‘unfair’
Multidenominational education body claims deal benefits Community National Schools
Are Catholic bishops ready to give up patronage of schools?
Minister Richard Bruton’s new divestment plan is carrot rather than stick approach
Efforts to divest schools ‘disappointing’, says forum chairman
Bishops not reading signs of the times or seeing what’s in their own best interests
Politicians protect small schools - but are they best for children?
200 small schools are located within an 8km radius of one another
Small school merger plan would have hit Galway-Mayo hardest
Taoiseach’s opposition key to rejection by Government of report’s recommendations
The religious and lay of the land: school ethos in flux
The departure of teaching religious from education has been dramatic. What is the impact on ethos at a time of social change?
The Teaching Council plans to ‘liberate’ teachers – not just collect fees
The council wants to get teachers to buy in to continuing professional development and regulation. But how will it do that when it’s about as popular as Irish Water in some circles?
Ban schools from seeking baptism certs for entrants, say humanists
Church control of schools causing children to have ‘pragmatic baptisms’, says group
‘Catholic first’ school admissions policies may be illegal
Minister for Education Jan O’Sullivan aims to speed up process of switching patronage
Forum head calls on church to speed up schools handover
Patronage forum chairman suggests cutting funding if no progress occurs
Segregation concerns over transfer of school patronage
Catholic schools’ spokesman Michael Drumm says ‘amalgamation is way forward’
Education preview: What’s in store for 2015?
Deeper Sino-Irish relations, an increased emphasis on philanthropy and a teachers’ pay claim are among our predictions for the new year
Quotes of the year in education: ‘The boys that did the honours maths led us to ruination’
Warnings against ‘self-satisfaction’ at Trinity and a Blackrock College war cry were among the other memorable quotes of 2014
Cog Notes: Fears for diversity of future staffrooms
Early findings of a national survey on diversity in initial teacher education raise concerns over a possible impact on the socioeconomic make-up of future staffs
Change in ‘archaic’ rule on religious teaching sought
Rule 68 decrees ‘religious spirit should inform and vivify whole work of school’
Crucifixes in schools should be joined by other religious artefacts
Department of Education says change of school patronage ‘has not been as rapid as envisaged’
Schools urged to publish polices showing they are ‘genuinely inclusive’
Department says change of religious patronage ‘has not been as rapid as envisaged’
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