The Teaching Council plans to ‘liberate’ teachers – not just collect feesThe council wants to get teachers to buy in to continuing professional development and regulation. But how will it do that when it’s about as popular as Irish Water in some circles?Tue Feb 10 2015 - 00:00
NUI Galway and DCU score top marks in European surveyTwo of five Irish insitutions get four As, putting them in same league as Oxford, says studyMon Feb 09 2015 - 21:59
Lecturers threaten industrial action at Cork and TraleeUnion has ‘no confidence’ in €6.7m merger plan for Munster Technological UniversityMon Feb 09 2015 - 16:46
Leaving Cert students in favour of exam reform, study findsMajority of final years want continuous assessment but Junior Certs less certainMon Feb 09 2015 - 15:57
Children’s digital skills don’t match their confidence levels, report finds43 per cent of nine to 16-year-olds don’t know how to report abuse online, survey revealsMon Feb 09 2015 - 01:00
New junior cycle proposals to be drawn up in bid to break impasseTeacher unions agree to consider recommendations of talks chairmanFri Feb 06 2015 - 18:34
New primary schools for Dublin, Cork, Galway and WicklowTwo non-religious patrons selected for schools opening next SeptemberThu Feb 05 2015 - 14:09
Universities sign up to gender equality charterColleges subject to robust rating in attempt to address claims of ‘systematic biases’Thu Feb 05 2015 - 11:00
Jan O’Sullivan ‘committed’ to 50-50 split in redress schemeCongregations need to make up more than €500m to meet targetThu Feb 05 2015 - 01:00
Religious orders blame property crash for redress shortfallOnly €81m in cash from church bodies towards abuse compensationThu Feb 05 2015 - 01:00
College mergers will have to be done on a ‘shoestring’Third-level chief says creation of two technological universities to cost €30 millionWed Feb 04 2015 - 17:38
School drop-out rates at new low as 90% sit Leaving CertCompletion rate in disadvantaged areas rise by 14 points in seven years to 82%Wed Feb 04 2015 - 16:18
Second survey on children’s ethnicity after ‘White Irish’ errorOptional document will be downloadable from department website, education.ieWed Feb 04 2015 - 15:25
Cog Notes: Bullying in the staffroomAn INTO survey found 44% of members had been bullied or harassed at workTue Feb 03 2015 - 06:00
‘Multi-racial’ oversight on school database questionnaire admittedOnly ‘Irish’ category included on the school questionnaire is ‘White Irish’Tue Feb 03 2015 - 01:00
Unthinkable: Why Charles Darwin is a threat to religionEvolution would not have become so contentious had Charles Darwin’s findings come later, argues Prof Peter J BowlerTue Feb 03 2015 - 01:00
Talks to avert teacher strike end without agreementDepartment of Education asks chairman to draw up compromise junior cycle planMon Feb 02 2015 - 23:51
College points on the rise after 5% jump in CAO applicationsHigher birth rate will see second-level enrolment up from 338,000 in 2014 to 405,000 in 2025Mon Feb 02 2015 - 18:45
Teacher talks resume over junior cycle reformsTalks aimed at averting a third day of strike actionMon Feb 02 2015 - 13:31
Churches unite at St Patrick’s teacher training college in DrumcondraNew library opens next week under €50m development as college prepares for mergerMon Feb 02 2015 - 01:01
Teaching Council to review application fees amid complaints over cost and delaysRegulatory body warns UK graduates that shortfalls in qualifications ‘are likely to be significant’Mon Feb 02 2015 - 01:01
Students urged to beat today’s CAO deadlineCentral Applications Office applications submitted on time avoid added feesSun Feb 01 2015 - 10:32
Department ‘passing the buck’ on school patronage, says bishopOpting out of faith formation classes in schools ‘not practicable’ for myriad reasonsFri Jan 30 2015 - 17:18
National centre for school leadership to train 100 mentorsMinister Jan O’Sullivan announces training of leaders and defends database of childrenFri Jan 30 2015 - 06:00
Teachers strike talks adjourned until MondayUnions and Department of Education met for eight hours and may reach compromiseThu Jan 29 2015 - 21:43
Half of principals work 25-hour week during school holidaysStudy carried out for IPPN identifies ‘sheer quantity of work’ as biggest source of stressThu Jan 29 2015 - 17:11
New guidelines on promoting mental health in primary schools‘Listening to voice of the child’ considered essential for progressive developmentThu Jan 29 2015 - 16:48
Coláiste Eoin row: Schools need to respond on parents’ concernsPostponement of workshop on combating homophobic bullying drew much criticismThu Jan 29 2015 - 12:02
Jan O’Sullivan and teachers’ unions to discuss compromiseMinister hopes to ‘be able to find some space in which to reach agreement’ with unionsThu Jan 29 2015 - 01:00
Should the State fund religious schools?Unthinkable: Children have a right not to be indoctrinated, argues professor of philosophy Desmond M Clarke, and schools that discriminate on religious grounds should not receive fundsTue Jan 27 2015 - 10:00
Cog Notes: The weird questions teachers are asked in interviewsA nun asking a candidate "what about the homos?" will take some beatingTue Jan 27 2015 - 00:00
Cork IT says ‘no basis for concern’ over allegations of misspendingPaintings of president and chairman commissioned for €22,000 in 2007Mon Jan 26 2015 - 01:00
Worries over €6.7m cost of merging Cork and Tralee ITsMerging institutes in university bid need to show more ‘loyalty’, says expert groupMon Jan 26 2015 - 01:00
How do teachers in other countries assess students?Ireland ‘unique globally’ in having unions against internal assessment for junior cycleSat Jan 24 2015 - 01:00
Ban schools from seeking baptism certs for entrants, say humanistsChurch control of schools causing children to have ‘pragmatic baptisms’, says groupFri Jan 23 2015 - 15:58
Now the teachers’ phoney war is over talks can really beginHawks in the teaching unions have the upper hand but compromise is possibleFri Jan 23 2015 - 08:09
Teachers say report cards a way to end strikeUnions say solution possible but only if school-based assessments scrappedFri Jan 23 2015 - 07:52
Fresh talks planned for next week after teachers’ strikeMinister says parents and students should have ‘equal recognition’ in deciding policyThu Jan 22 2015 - 14:28
Minister rejects union efforts to limit scope of ‘fitness-to-teach’ hearingsJan O’Sullivan’s announcement marks her strong stance on key policy issuesThu Jan 22 2015 - 11:56
Fitness-to-teach hearings to be held in public ‘by default’Minister overrules Teaching Council’s advice on new professional practice inquiriesWed Jan 21 2015 - 16:32
Teachers warn of further action after Thursday’s strikeUnions defend decision to hold second walk-out without balloting on revised planWed Jan 21 2015 - 11:21
Schools have rights on ethos, says priestFr Michael Drumm says deletion of rule would undermine religious freedomWed Jan 21 2015 - 01:00
Cog Notes: Webwise aims to educate children about online safetyAn impressive set of materials is being made available to schools ahead of Safer Internet Day on February 10thTue Jan 20 2015 - 13:28
Unthinkable: Is mystical thinking a cop-out?Trappist monk Thomas Merton believed that silent contemplation was far from impracticalTue Jan 20 2015 - 01:07
INTO welcomes compensation award for teacher asked about ‘homos’Primary teachers’ union, which represented teacher, says discrimination is still occurringTue Jan 20 2015 - 01:00
Teacher wins case over questions on teachers who are ‘homos’Catholic school found to have discriminated on grounds of age, religion and sexual orientationMon Jan 19 2015 - 08:13
Cabinet considered ending free secondary education days before bank guaranteeProposed scrapping of Junior Cert in 2009 estimated to save €24 million a yearMon Jan 19 2015 - 07:32
State may face damages claim over English language school registerHigh Court rules State acted beyond powers in setting up accreditation schemeThu Jan 15 2015 - 22:40
Teachers strike set to go ahead after talks fail to break impasseUnions say they ‘remain resolute in opposition’ to school-based assessmentWed Jan 14 2015 - 17:11
Primary results due to better teachers and extra resourcesInvestment in teacher training is a factor in improving literacy and numeracy standardsTue Jan 13 2015 - 01:01
