Prefab nation: 1,300 temporary classes in creaking system
SCHOOL prefabs are mushrooming despite a promise to eliminate the need for any school to use them as a long-term accommodation solution.
SCHOOL prefabs are mushrooming despite a promise to eliminate the need for any school to use them as a long-term accommodation solution.
The Government must increase funding for school building, according to Fianna Fail.
MORE than 40 brand new schools are to be established over the next four years to cater for the growing population.
Decisions on where to establish new schools are based on a range of data from a variety of sources, including new house builds and child...
Student loans are off the agenda for the lifetime of this Government, at least, as the hot political potato of who should bear the cost of paying for third-level is put on the long finger.
Bríd Ní Dhonnacha describes it as one of Ireland's best kept secrets, but it is one that she loves to share.
A student who threatened a pregnant teacher and told her he would "kick the baby out" was back in the classroom the next day, a teachers' union conference heard.
A student who threatened a pregnant teacher and told her he would “kick the baby out” was back in the classroom the next day, a teachers’ union conference heard.
Teachers are threatening to pull the plug on a move to allow pupils in almost half of second-level schools to be given an alternative to religion classes.
The row over two-tier pay rates for Irish teachers has made its way to the European Court of Justice.
THE ASTI warned the Government that pay inequality is now "a public scandal" which cannot and will not be tolerated.
Parents and pupils are to be given a direct say on the use of smartphones and tablet devices in their schools with a view to agreeing a code of practice.
THE Association of Secondary Teachers of Ireland (ASTI) overwhelmingly backed a vote for joint industrial action while the INTO voted...
Homeless children are struggling in school, a primary teachers’ leader told Education Minister Richard Bruton today.
ALL second-level pupils are to get classes in sexual consent in the biggest shake-up of sex education in more than 20 years.
Teachers are giving the Government a month to produce a commitment to end two-tier pay rates - or strike ballots that could close schools in the autumn will go ahead.
The quality of education offered to pupils suffers dramatically when there is a shortage of teachers, a union leader pointedly warned.
Primary teacher Aoife Mullen says she is a "home bird" and didn't feel the same draw as many of her college friends to a tax-free, all-expenses-paid job abroad.
Two key moves to reduce the Catholic Church’s control of Irish education will be made within weeks, just as bishops prepare for their biggest celebration in almost 40 years.
THE president of one of the country's largest teachers' unions has warned that teachers 'will shut down schools' if progress on a pay dispute is not made.
Pupils will use drone cameras to record footage of local landscapes to share with geography classes in other schools, in an experimental project supported by the Department of Education.
Two key moves to reduce the Catholic Church's control of Irish education will be made within weeks, just as bishops prepare for their biggest celebration in almost 40 years.
Teachers are arming themselves for a battle with the Government over two-tier pay scales.
In Shane Curran's first year teaching, he spent more time driving to and from school than he did in the classroom.
Students in institutes of technology may be facing a cut in lecturing hours from September in a row over workload for academics.
A Leaving Cert student who has moved out of home because of ongoing family problems says the State has left her to fend for herself.
DCU president Professor Brian MacCraith has called for regulations to deal with the "escalating and uncontrolled pricing" of the student housing sector.
Student teachers on placement in schools are paying out up to €60 a week from their own pockets to cover the cost of classroom materials to aid pupil learning.
Major construction work starts this week on the new Grangegorman campus for Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT).
Trinity College Dublin has backed down on plans to introduce a fee of €450 for repeat exams.
Student teachers in their final year of post-graduate study should be paid to work in schools to help deal with staff shortages, Fianna Fail education spokesperson Thomas Byrne said today.
The quality of teaching for the country's 350,000 second-level pupils is being put at risk by growing demands on teachers, according to a new report.
Some Junior Cert pupils face a delay in completing their home economics practical this year because of a shortage of examiners.
Almost a quarter of teachers say they teach subjects they are not qualified in, according to a survey.
The Department of Education has cleared the way for five Educate Together primary schools to enrol more pupils.
About 2,000 school-leavers now enter college every year via the CAO on lower points than their peers thanks to national schemes designed to help students to overcome a financial, social or educational disadvantage that may hinder their studies or career ambitions.
Pupils starting in second-level schools next September will have a considerably different journey through junior cycle than all who have gone before them.
The six-year route to qualifying as a second-level teacher is too long, too expensive and contributing to classroom shortages, according to a second-level school leader.
There is a big leap in demand for teacher training courses this year as school-leavers race to fill well-publicised staff shortages in the nation's classrooms.
Banning smartphones in schools is not the answer to the growing problem of protecting children from online risks, according to an Irish education technology company.
Teachers have warned they will not give up the battle for an end to two-tier pay scales in the profession until equality is restored.
Teachers protested outside the Dáil today as part of their ongoing campaign for pay equality.
Parents, students and universities have given broad support to a system of continuous assessment for the Leaving Cert - but teachers are opposed.
The week ahead marks a step change in the responsibilities placed on schools and teachers in relation to the protection of children from abuse and harm.
Most schools around the country reopen today after a two or three-day shutdown caused by the severe weather – however impassable roads will force many to remain closed.
Where possible schools, colleges of further education and third level institutions will re-open on Monday, according to the Department of Education
Schools may not be able to reopen in all areas on Monday because of the ongoing disruption caused by weather.
All schools may not be able to re-open on Monday because of the ongoing disruption caused by weather.
Teachers and other school staff are being asked to use the “snow days” do a mandatory online child protection course, to avoid a need to close for another day next week for training.
Schools are unlikely to be asked to open extra days to make up for time lost because of this week’s closures.
Irish universities are home to two of the world's top 40 nursing schools, according to the latest global league tables.
ALL schools and colleges in Leinster and Munster are to remain closed on Thursday and Friday, the Department of Education has confirmed.
SCHOOLS forced to close by the severe weather conditions may have to make up the days later in the school year.
ALL schools and colleges in Leinster and Munster are to remain closed on Thursday and Friday, the Department of Education has confirmed.
Catholic schools in some areas are losing ground to the multi-denominational sector, which is experiencing the biggest bounce in pupil numbers.
Student science fairs and exhibitions have tended to be seen as optional extras, undertaken by particularly keen students, with some schools having strong track records in encouraging participation.
A row has erupted over the rollout of a plan to allow secondary students who drop out of religious studies to attend a different class.
From a dedicated, quiet-time Zen room to industrious student-led workshops, Dublin's Coláiste Bríde is constantly coming up with new ways to support pupils' emotional needs and their academic success, recognising strong links between the two.
Decent science labs and PE halls for all second-level schools and energy conservation measures in all schools built before 2008 are among the priorities in primary and post-primary education.
Schools are to get a direct hand in reshaping the Leaving Certificate for a new generation.
It's back to school on Monday after the watershed for State exam candidates that are the February midterm break. Some dams, in the form of human tears, may now start to burst.
Preparing young children and teenagers for an uncertain world requires covering a spectrum from developing their emotional resilience to giving them the knowledge and skills for an ever-changing workplace.
Arts and creativity are at the heart of a new initiative for schools being launched today.
Parents of pre-school children around the country will be asked to vote in the coming weeks on whether they want a greater choice of primary schools in their area.
A recent survey of Irish second-level students showing that one in three Sixth Year pupils have sent a sexually explicit image is a wake-up call for those not already alert to the full extent of the perils of the online world.
A significant improvement in the quality of maths teaching and learning in second-level schools, but a deterioration in standards in Irish among primary pupils, are the high and low points of a new snapshot of the nation's classrooms.
The number of Irish children having online conversations with strangers could run into the thousands.
Standards in Irish among primary school children have deteriorated in recent years, according to a new report from the Department of Education.
Schools are to share €30m to help them integrate state-of-the-art digital teaching and learning into the classroom.
Bishops and other Catholic Church education interests have expressed their opposition to any move to dilute the status of religion in the primary school curriculum.
Education Minister Richard Bruton is backing moves to limit career breaks for teachers in a bid to tackle staffing shortages.
The Dutch partner in the consortium involved in building six Irish schools where work has stopped said a delay in finishing the projects was “inevitable”.
It's CAO application time. Typically, about 60pc of 17 to 19-year-olds go to college, whether immediately after doing the Leaving Certificate or within a year or two of leaving school.
Almost half of all graduate jobs are now in Dublin, as the national employment market becomes increasingly lopsided.
The teacher at the centre of a case that saw a 19-year-old student being found on a motorway late at night has escaped sanctions by the Teaching Council.
A teacher at the centre of a professional misconduct inquiry has given an undertaking not to drink alone with students under his care in the future.
There are two concerns about the Irish teaching profession. One relates to shortages for certain subjects at second level, as well as a low supply of substitutes to cover for temporary absences at primary level.
An Irish school caught up in the collapse of UK building giant Carillion is now worried about the project ending up in a legal quagmire, further delaying the long-awaited opening of its new premises.
Uncertainty surrounds six new school building projects, worth a total of €100m, caught up in the liquidation of the UK company, Carillion.
A system of financial penalties that will punish third-level colleges for misuse of public funds is being introduced later this year.
A 19-year-old student was found by Gardai on a motorway in a distressed state after a late night incident with his school housemaster, a Teaching Council inquiry heard today.
Does the weight of a hurley impact the length of the strike?
Former tanáiste Mary Harney has been appointed Chancellor of the University of Limerick (UL) and chairperson of it governing authority.
Former Tanáiste Mary Harney has been appointed Chancellor of the University of Limerick (UL) and chairperson of it governing authority.
Post-Leaving Certificate (PLC) courses are producing too many hairdressers, childcare, health and community service workers - and not enough people with qualifications that employers need.
Pupils in 40 schools will start studying computer science for the Leaving Cert from next September.
It may not be as big, or as well known, as Newgrange, but Knockroe Passage Tomb, on the Kilkenny-Tipperary border, is just as important.
One in six female students either knows or suspects that someone had sexual contact with them without their consent when they were passed out, drugged, drunk, incapacitated or asleep, according to a new study.
Traditional nativity plays, a nativity with a hoedown flavour, brightly painted bird feeders to help our feathered friends through the lean weeks ahead and a rendition of Toy Story's 'You've Got a Friend in Me' are among the many and varied ways that Irish primary pupils have reflected the seasonal message in their end-of-term activities.
The amount of time Irish 10-year-olds spend learning science has halved in four years, but their reading skills seem to give them an advantage in tackling the subject.
At last count, Census 2016, almost 12pc of the population were from migrant communities. That amounts to one in eight of the population - they or their families have come here from almost 200 countries.
Many schools don't have the gym facilities or equipment to offer the new Leaving Certificate subject in physical education (PE), principals have warned.
The school transport scheme has caused "unnecessary hardship" to children with special needs and their families, according to Children's Ombudsman Dr Niall Muldoon.
The number of international students in third-level colleges in Ireland is growing.
Second-level pupils entering fifth year in September will be the first to get marks in the Leaving Certificate - and CAO points - for performance in sport, dance or other physical activity.
Some schools in areas worst hit by the adverse weather conditions will remained closed today as temperatures are set to plummet to -8C.
Irish 10-year-olds are holding their heads high after emerging as the best in Europe, and among the top in the world, in reading.
Irish 10-year-olds are the best in Europe at reading, according to the biggest international test on pupil achievement.
Irish 10-year-olds are the best in Europe at reading, according to the biggest international assessment of pupil achievement.
College entry rates from State-funded schools are continuing to close the gap with the fee-paying sector.
A week ago today Richard Bruton launched a strategy to make Ireland a leader in STEM education.
Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Lithuanian and Portuguese will be on the curriculum for Leaving Certificate students who enter fifth year in September 2020.
School completion rates in Ireland have risen to a new high of 91pc, an impressive jump from 82pc 15 years ago. Ireland is second in the EU28 countries for the percentage of people aged 20-24 with at least upper-secondary education. The numbers staying in school until Junior Cert, at least, have also gone up, to above 97pc.
A major drive is under way to increase the number of girls studying science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem) subjects for the Leaving Cert.
Primary schools cannot arrange essential works, such as roof repairs and improved insulation, because they don't know if, and when, the State funding to cover it will arrive.
The gender pay gap. Women not getting top jobs, even in the highest echelons of learning, the universities. Sex pests, and worse, whether heterosexual or homosexual, abusing positions of power. All part of a dismaying tsunami of sex and gender-related controversies at home and abroad in recent days weeks and months.
A former Fine Gael general secretary, Jim Miley has been appointed to the newly created role of director general of the Irish Universities Association (IUA).
Children with emotional and behavioural difficulties, such as ADHD, need more support in school to help them make friends, according to a new report from the Economic and Social Research Institute.
Primary pupils from infant classes up will soon be learning the foundations of computer coding as part of a new maths curriculum.
The use of barnacle genes as the basis for a surgical glue and the deletion of human genes that increase the risk of Huntington's Disease - these were the two winning ideas at the annual €5,000 Irish Independent/Higher Education Authority (HEA) Making an Impact student research competition.
More than 35 schools around the country are the first to share in a new fund to experiment with creative ways to tackle educational disadvantage.
Maths teachers say they don't get enough time to deliver the Junior Cycle syllabus to pupils, according a new report.
The recently appointed president of the University of Limerick (UL) has expressed concern about the way the university "treated some of its people in the past".