The twin pressures of funding cuts and growing student numbers sees Ireland's university system classed as being in the "danger" zone, according to an analysis by the European Universities...
Irish universities say they must be “freed from the grinding levers of State control” if they are to...
The €11.9bn education building programme being announced by the Government today does not provide for the widespread building and...
A big battle is shaping up for control of 13 primary schools opening next September.
Girls outperformed boys in almost all Junior Cert subjects this year according to a gender breakdown of results from the State Examinations Commission (SEC).
A primary school in Taoiseach Leo Varadkar's home town has been told to get its house in order after inspectors found a "serious breakdown in trust" in key relationships.
It was a case of tea and sympathy when Rachel Allen turned out for the annual Kennedy Summer School.
A university president has called for a radical new approach to third-level funding that would limit the number of students paid for by the State, while others, who could afford it, would be liable for full fees.
It was a case of tea and sympathy when Rachel Allen turned out in Co Wexford for the annual Kennedy Summer School.
Only one pupil turned up in a primary school this week after parents withdrew their children for unspecified reasons.
More than 2,000 students are celebrating a college offer after the CAO issued its second round.
More educational psychologists are to be made available to schools in the coming academic year, mainly to train teachers to support the well-being of their pupils.
Three-quarters of primary school parents are asked to make a voluntary contribution to their child's school - and in some cases the request is for more than €200 a year, according to a recent survey.
Yes, it was different, and so much better than any misty-eyed memories of 1979.
Pope Francis' visit to Ireland made international headlines, and its timing gave added prominence to the child sex abuse scandals engulfing the Catholic Church worldwide.
Education Minister Richard Bruton has formally instructed Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board (KWETB) to sharpen up, following an investigation into a series of transactions involving former chief executive Seán Ashe.
More than 62,000 Junior Cert students are celebrating their results today, although many middle-ground students will be disappointed there is no repeat of the bumper share-out of "honours" grades that marked the introduction of the new-style English written exam last year.
Spending on education in Ireland has not kept up with the rising number of students, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
Spending on education in Ireland has not kept up with the rising number of students, according to the international think-tank, the OECD.
University College Dublin (UCD) has been ranked number one in Ireland for graduate employability, and is among the world's top 100.
The Department of Education says schools have a responsibility to ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place while children are participating in school tours.
Employers want a radical overhaul of career guidance for second-level pupils to include a new State-funded external advisory service to support what is already available in schools.
A young entrepreneur is shaking up the Dublin second-level education market with a new independent school on the southside of the city for Leaving Cert students.
Education Minister Richard Bruton and State-run post-primary schools are in a stand-off over an instruction to provide alternative tuition to pupils who opt out of religion classes, which is supposed to be effective from this month.
Primary school managers say the current method of identifying the need for additional school places in an area is not adequate.
The sudden resignation of the chief executive of the Higher Education Authority is being blamed on increasing control over the agency's activities by the Department of Education coupled with a lack of progress on the third-level funding issue.
The Chief Executive of the Higher Education Authority Dr Graham Love is stepping down from his role amid tensions with the Department of Education over funding for third-level.
The country's 14 institutes of technology have committed to increasing the number of women in senior positions.
The drop in demand from school-leavers for computing courses has triggered alarm in business and technology circles.
The points race has slowed for the second year in a row, but the chase for careers in the growing economy kept a sharp edge on competition for CAO courses leading to 'boom-time' jobs.
A Brexit-linked drop in demand among students from Northern Ireland and Britain is likely a factor in some significant falls in the CAO points needed for entry to Trinity College Dublin.
Congratulations to the 50,746 CAO applicants who received college offers today.
It has been a pretty good year for Leaving Cert candidates on the CAO front, with 52pc of those receiving a round-one offer today getting their top choice.
A number of third-level colleges offer students another chance to achieve the required maths grade for entry to CAO courses.
For many students, going to college also involves a move away from home and finding suitable accommodation is an important part of the process.
Irish 10-year-olds may be the best readers in Europe, but many of them wrongly assume that a strong character in a story is male, even if an image or name is obviously female.
Girls continue to outperform boys in the Leaving Certificate, according to a gender breakdown of the results.
The number of Leaving Certificate candidates scoring high points for college entry has jumped since the changes to the exam grading system and CAO points scale.
SEVEN students have achieved an incredible eight H1s in the Leaving Certificate - and it appears to have come as a surprise to them as much as anyone else.
The National Parents Council post-primary (NPCpp) Leaving Cert Results Helpline will answer queries from parents and students from today.
Well done! It's a big day for all those who sat the Leaving Certificate this year. No matter what the piece of paper with the results shows, it represents a significant milestone in life and one to be celebrated.
A number of colleges offer students a second chance to show that they have the maths skills required for entry to certain courses.
Leaving Cert students are aiming higher and are rewarded today with a jump in the numbers achieving the highest grade in a subject.
Results in hand, most school-leavers will be looking ahead to CAO Round 1 offers and wondering what are their chances of getting their preferred course.
THE former president of Dublin City University (DCU), Professor Ferdinand von Prondzynski, is stepping down from his position as principal of Scotland's Robert Gordon University (RGU) after a conflict of interest controversy.
The Leaving Certificate is not adequately challenging pupils in the sort of thinking skills and levels of knowledge that 16-19-year-olds can soak up, according to alarming new research.
A recent finding that more than half (53pc) of boys first saw porn between the ages of 10 and 13, and others even earlier, gives a good idea of when childhood innocence on matters of sex comes to an end. The figure for 10 to 13-year-old girls was 23pc, but they catch up quickly.
Students believe that the Leaving Cert failed to prepare them adequately for university, according to a Dublin City University (DCU) study.
Sexual consent workshops may become mandatory for students in all third-level colleges in the wake of new research on sex-related attitudes and behaviours on campus.
The vision for a new main entrance to the UCD campus was unveiled today with the design for a €48m landmark building inspired by the Giant’s Causeway.
An extra layer of assessment for junior cycle students, introduced purely to win the backing of teacher union leaders for controversial exam reforms, is causing difficulties.
There has been significant growth in the number of students with disabilities, including those with a mental health condition or autism, going to third-level education.
The majority of Irish college students believe that someone who has consumed as much as a bottle of vodka, 14 pints of beer or three bottles of wine still has the capacity to give consent to sex.
When Pope John Paul visited Ireland in 1979, the activities of a small group of parents in south Dublin involved in a primary school "project" were unlikely to have been on his radar.
A lack of leadership is limiting the number of women in senior positions at third-level colleges, Higher Education Minister Mary Mitchell O'Connor has warned.
When Sinéad Crowther sat down to juggle back-to-school costs with all the other household expenses, something had to give.
Back-to-school costs are running well above the rate of inflation, despite a pledge by Education Minister Richard Bruton to ease the burden on parents.
Move over Kendall Square, Boston - Dublin is aiming to lay claim to having "the most innovative square mile on the planet" on a site overlooking Grand Canal Quay.
Plans for a new innovation district in the heart of Dublin, bringing together multinationals, new talent and university expertise, have been unveiled.
Vending machines selling unhealthy drinks and snacks should be banned from schools to help combat childhood obesity, the Oireachtas Education Committee recommends in a new report.
Vending machines selling unhealthy drinks and snacks should be banned from schools in the interest of tackling the problem of childhood obesity, the Oireachtas Education Committee recommends in a new report.
Parents will see radical changes to school admission rules over the next year after a new law promising a fairer approach to pupil selection passed through all stages of the Oireachtas last night.
Dublin City University (DCU) has opened an €11m expansion to its engineering building as part of its ongoing campus development.
Second-level teachers are to be trained in how to deal with suicides and other traumatic incidents involving pupils and the wider school community.
The hot political potato of tackling the long-term funding needs of Irish universities and other third-level colleges is now going to the EU.
Schools need dedicated sex-education teachers with a professional qualification in the subject, according to the body representing managers of religious-run - predominantly Catholic - schools.
Demand for post-primary teacher training courses has bounced even higher since the initial deadline for making CAO college choices in February.
Universities say they need €234m from next year's Budget to help rebuild the system after years of cuts.
Parents of homeless children are choosing between buying food or paying travel costs so the youngsters can stay in school in their original community.
THE first of the country’s new-style technological universities is expected to be up and running in Dublin by next year.
Parents of homeless children are choosing between buying food or paying travel costs so they can stay in school in their original community.
Parents may be avoiding events in their children's school in case they are "chased" for a voluntary contribution, according to Labour's education spokesperson Senator Aodhán Ó Ríordáin.
Two in three principals in primary schools with special classes have a waiting list for places, the Oireachtas Education Committee has heard.
One-in-five Irish 14-year-olds is being taught maths by a teacher who is not qualified in the subject, according to a new report.
There are not enough graduates coming out of college with construction and property surveying degrees to meet the surge in demand in the recovering economy.
Work is restarting on six new school and college buildings that were hit by the collapse of British construction giant Carillion.
Parents are missing out on hundreds, or even thousands, of euro every year by not claiming tax relief on college fees.
Work is restarting on six new school and college buildings that were hit by the collapse of the UK construction giant, Carillion.
The Leaving Cert is getting longer - extra days are being added to the timetable to accommodate the additional subjects now coming on stream.
The final day of the Leaving Cert wasn't without its challenges, as students tackled papers in Italian, Japanese, technology, religious education and applied maths.
There were no major surprises on the Leaving Cert economics papers, but higher-level students may have been disappointed not to have had an opportunity to get stuck into Brexit.
Parents in four areas can start voting today on who they want to run a new post-primary school in their locality.
The first exams in the new Leaving Certificate subject of politics and society got a vote of confidence from teachers and students.
Questions ranging from electric cars and the environment to the design of a dugout shelter for a sports field featured on the Junior Cert metalwork (materials and technology) higher level paper.
Very fair, and providing a challenge to all levels of students was how teacher Kenneth O'Dea described the Leaving Certificate chemistry higher-level paper.
Primary schools are dealing with very young children with serious mental health difficulties including self-harming and suicidal thoughts, according to a new study.
There was a lot of positive reaction to the Leaving Certificate business and art papers.
While both Junior Cert religious education papers were in line with previous years, the higher level exam was testing, according to teacher Stephen O'Hara.
A lovely paper, with excellent short questions that gave students a lovely start and long questions that were all fair, summed up the Leaving Certificate business higher level paper for teacher Keith Hannigan.
Leaving Certificate history higher level candidates had “quite a challenging paper," according to teacher Sean Delap.
A manageable paper that was a fair test of students’ abilities, although challenging in parts, was how teacher Carole Oiknine described the Leaving Certificate French higher level exam.
Teachers had some quibbles about the second Leaving Certificate Irish paper.
Move over, dragons! There are some new kids on the entrepreneurial block ready to breathe fire down your necks.
There was nothing unexpected in the Leaving Cert biology higher level exam, and students who had prepared with past papers would have been very happy, according to teacher Jean Kelly.
The Leaving Certificate Irish higher level Paper 2 threw up some surprises, but the questions that were asked were straightforward, according to teacher Clare Grealy.
Harry Potter fans may have been happy with a question on the Junior Cert higher level Maths Paper 2, but teacher Elaine Devlin was not impressed.
Irish 15-year-olds are three times more likely to want to be a teacher than the international average.
There was some variation in teacher responses to the first of the Leaving Cert Irish papers, on comprehension and composition.
The students from Loreto Secondary School in Bray remained calm and composed after a few surprises in their maths and Irish papers yesterday.
There was some variation in teacher responses to the first of the Leaving Cert Irish papers .
Rising rents are forcing an increasing number of students to endure long commutes in order to attend college.
Teacher Elaine Devlin described the questions on the Junior Cert Maths higher level Paper 1 as "well-led".
About one-third of the Leaving Certificate higher level Maths Paper 1 dealt with series and sequences but, according to teacher Brid Griffin, the topic was "over dominant".
A nice paper but challenging in a few places was how teacher Aidan Roantree described the Leaving Certificate maths higher level Paper 1
Although the Leaving Certificate geography higher level paper covered many of the key, traditional topics, the questions contained new variations on old themes, according to teacher Michael Doran.
Parents in four areas will soon be voting on who they want to run a new post-primary school in their region.
The Leaving Certificate English Paper 2 on poetry and prose is often a cause of student anxiety, but this time higher-level candidates were treated to a "good and fair" exam, according to teacher Kate Barry.
An increasing trend in the Leaving Certificate engineering higher-level paper to open questions with a real-life context was welcomed by teacher Kenny Donagher.
The debate on student loans reignited after startling university rankings showed Ireland can no longer claim a top 100 spot worldwide.
The Leaving Certificate English Higher Level Paper 2 was “a perfect follow-up to yesterday’s excellent Paper 1, “according to teacher Jim Lusby.
An increasing trend on the Leaving Certificate engineering higher level paper to open questions with a real-life context was welcomed by teacher Kenny Donagher.
There is now no Irish university in the world's top 100 as the country's higher education sector falls further in global rankings.
Well-prepared Junior Cert English students who would have studied a number of poems might have been upset by the absence of a studied poetry question on this year's higher level paper, according to teacher Lorraine Tuffy.
The phrasing in a question about the education system in the Leaving Certificate Home Economics Higher Level Paper was a cause of concern to teacher Margaret Kinsella.
For the first time, the Leaving Certificate English Higher Level Paper 1 drew a link to Paper 2, which was well received by teachers, although not all students were impressed.
