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How to survive exam fever -- a guide for anxious parents
Keep secret stationery supplies, know the timetables ... Kim Bielenberg offers 10 tips for mums and dads
Diary of a Schoolteacher: So, then, how will the wise men and women of the staff room vote?
I know my CSPE class are going to have a battery of questions to ask me about the Stability and Growth Pact Referendum so I'm trying to get my head around it before they realise I haven't a clue and everything goes out of control and it's all just stuff about Man City and the Eurovision.
In My Opinion: First-year students entering third level have been taught to learn -- not to reason
Students face several challenges when entering third level. Having spent the previous year as the most senior class in school, they arrive in an alien environment at the bottom of the ladder.
Communication breakdown sets tongues wagging
WHEN the school secretary telephones to arrange the appoint-ment, your mouth goes dry. Yet you'd requested the state-of-the-nation chat about your daugh-ter hoping you'd be told she was doing fine.
Loreto has brush with success as 11 students go to art college
There are good reasons for celebration in the art room at Loreto Secondary School in Balbriggan.
In My Opinion: Young people deserve better than lazy cuts to frontline services in our schools
At this time of the year school management in secondary schools across the country is busy planning next year's timetable. The task this year has become much more difficult as a result of the Government's decision in Budget 2012 to remove the additional allocation for guidance and counselling in schools.
Diary of a Schoolteacher: Thinking of becoming a teacher? I don't want to alarm you, but. . .
Have you been suckered into training to be a teacher? If so, it's not too late.
Will teachers be offered backhanders if they have to test pupils?
Plans by Ruairi Quinn to downgrade exams in the Junior Cycle are meeting with stiff resistance from teachers.
Diary of a Schoolteacher: Since when did businessmen suddenly become experts on our education system?
Over the last two weeks, thanks to the Easter holidays, I've enjoyed catching up with what our radio 'experts' have had to say about the current state of the Irish education system and our unions' conferences.
In My Opinion: Universities must treat their researchers with the same respect as research itself
Research and development is the lifeblood of any economy, society or institution. Encouraging the exploration of new theories, procedure and practice in our schools and colleges will play an essential role in any effort to find solutions to our current economic plight and return our communities to prosperity.
Inside Features
- A1 art students are rare
- I learned to read at 54. . .
- The facts
- How high is the sky?
- How are insects' legs stronger than ours?
- Why is it that my friends on Facebook seem to have more friends than I do?
- Can animals sense earthquakes before us?
- What could happen if bees disappeared?
- How do you measure the speed of light?
- Why is the sky blue?
- Why does my golf ball not go far and straight?
- Is there no cure for the common cold?
- Can Jedward win the Eurovision?
- Is there an alternative to embryonic stem cells?
