Carl O'Brien

Campaigners argue reduced timetables could be used to exclude or sanction vulnerable children with behavioural problems

Simon Harris due to announce expansion of new initiative at Higher Options careers event

Norma Foley had proposed that 40% of students’ work would be assessed by teachers

Problems facing Norma Foley show end of school exams so deeply embedded in education system that reform is far easier said than done

Revised subjects - including biology, physics, chemistry and business - will include externally assessed project work or practicals

Biology, chemistry, physics will have a greater emphasis on externally assessed project work and practicals

Minister for Education Norma Foley requests report on challenges technology poses to 'fair' assessments of students in the Junior and Leaving Cert exams

Guinness World Records recognises society whose members included Wolfe Tone and Sally Rooney

Despite being banned, the Hist is set to celebrate its official status as the world’s oldest college debating society

In Northern Ireland, most students never study the Troubles while the education offered in the South is patchy

Student outcomes are impressive and investment in education is heading in the right direction

Managers say ‘chronic underfunding’ means many schools are struggling to provide heat, lighting and water in schools

When education spend is measured as a proportion of State expenditure, then Ireland's spending on the sector is above the OECD average of 10%

Mother alleged non-Catholic children were excluded from reward for not attending religious ceremony

Minister for Education Norma Foley says awareness raising in schools could curb ‘worrying trend’ in deaths