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THE number of Irish students applying for university places in Britain and Northern Ireland has rocketed by 50pc this year.
Ex-Intel boss urges maths bias in schools
A KEY adviser to US president Barack Obama last night said Ireland's education system needed to do better, if the economy was to compete on the world stage.
Inside Education
Bullies use 'gay' taunts to target 10-year-olds in primary school
BOYS as young as 10 are being subjected to homophobic taunts in school calling them "gay and lesbian".
Teachers may grumble now -- but things were much worse
In the early part of the last century, the writer Hanna Sheehy Skeffington was moved to remark that female second level teachers were "the most harassed and exploited class in the whole country".
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