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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