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TCD newspaper’s future to be put to referendum following bugging controversy

Move follows row over use of a recording device to report hazing allegations

Over €228,000 spent on prefabs for Cork primary school amid extension delay

A toilet at Charleville CBS in Co Cork, where part of the roof recently fell in.

Charleville CBS principal has threatened to shut the school due to its ‘dire’ conditions

Charleville parents back principal over threat to close school

Charleville CBS primary school. Image: Google Maps

Prioritisation of upgrades to existing schools needed, Fianna Fáil leader says

Donogh O’Malley’s speech announcing free secondary education recreated by son

Actor Daragh O’Malley delivers the speech of his father, former minister for education Donogh O’Malley, in which he announced free second level education ove 50 years ago.

Actor Daragh O’Malley delivers father’s seminal 1967 announcement

School principal refuses to return pupils to ‘dire’ classroom conditions

Toilet in classroom at Charleville CBS Primary, Co Cork, where part of the roof recently fell in.

Charleville CBS Primary school demands plans for new building within weeks

Shortage of college places looms unless State invests in higher education, say campaigners

Kevin Donoghue, of Forsa, Karl Byrne of Siptu, Séamus Lahart, President TUI and Zak Aboukrhes of ISSU with Síona Cahill, president of USI at a protest in Trinity college Dublin to highlight concerns about investment in Irish higher education. Photograph: Andres Poveda

Students and lecturers stage lunchtime protests to highlight ‘growing crisis’

‘In Syria I used to hate school but here it’s really different

Mohammed Almassry, Samir Faizi and Osman Noori, originally from Afghanistan and Syria and now sixth-year students at CBS Westland Row school, addressed fellow students on Thursday at a ‘Walk in my Shoes’ event. Photograph: Dave Meehan

Sixth-year students describe their asylum journey to Ireland and loneliness on arrival

Third level staff and students to stage protests over funding ‘crisis’

A Union of Students of Ireland (USI) protest over public investment in third level level in 2017. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill / The Irish Times

Lunchtime demonstrations due across all colleges campuses on Thursday

Schools encouraged to create ‘safe spaces’ for LGBT students

A handbook on how to create safe spaces for LGBT teens in secondary schools has been launcged by Cork Lord Mayor Cllr Mick Finn. Photograph: Som / CIT LGBT Society

Handbook for secondary schools on how to set up LGBT-friendly after-school clubs

Schools invited to commemorate Famine by planting Lumper potatoes

Schools across Ireland are being encouraged to sow Lumper potatoes this spring to commemorate the Irish Famine.

Variety which millions of Irish depended on was destroyed by blight from 1845 onwards

More than 100 Catholic primary schools have closed over past decade

Catholic schools still account for 90 per cent of primary schools across the State. Photograph: iStock

Multidenominational is the fastest growing category of school by ethos

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Eilish Meagher of St Audoen’s school, Cook Street, Dublin, says she has concerns for the safety of pupils due to drug dealing, addicts injecting outside the school and street fights. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

Injecting, drug dealing, bloodied wipes, ‘the kids see everything’

Carl O'Brien
March 20, 2019

Principal of Dublin national school says authorities are ignoring impact on pupils

Peter Gunning, a former principal, says representative bodies should be careful not to paint an overly negative picture of teaching.

I’ve had it with ‘why me?’ school principals

March 19, 2019

There is pure joy in leading a school, as well as frustration. Our leaders should reflect this

Louise Crowley, a senior lecturer in law, says UCC’s bystander initiative is helping to create a safer campus. “We are seeking to shatter the false consensus over the normality or acceptance of inappropriate behaviour.” Photograph: UCC

Consent on campus: ‘We’re building zero tolerance to sexual harassment’

Carl O'Brien
March 19, 2019

UCC’s ‘bystander intervention’ is being made available to all 22,000 students

UCC students posting a mural which tackles rape myths and normalised everyday abuse to the wall of the Boole Library. Photograph: Clare Keogh.

Cultural change needed to make campuses safer for third-level students

Carl O'Brien
March 19, 2019

Analysis: Sexual harassment and rape remain major issues on campus

Pupils working on their projects at Educate Together Secondary School, Griffith College, Wellington Road, Cork. They have replaced subjects for a week by focusing on a phenomenon-based learning week. Photograph: Michael Mac Sweeney/Provision

Could traditional subjects become a thing of the past in Irish schools?

Peter McGuire
March 19, 2019

‘Phenomenon-based learning’ where students work on projects across range of areas has been trialled in Finland

Students born outside Ireland are exempt from Irish requirements for entry to National University of Ireland colleges. Photograph: iStock

My son was born in the UK. Does he have to study Leaving Certificate Irish?

Brian Mooney
March 19, 2019

Ask Brian: Exemptions depend on how long a pupil has been out of Irish education system

The Leaving Cert higher level Irish paper

Why do so many Leaving Cert students skip the Irish exam?

Carl O'Brien
March 16, 2019

Is it fear or loathing that made 9,500 students sit out the test in 2016 – and does it matter?

Several thousand school children rally in a climate protest in Bergen, Norway. Photograph: EPA

School climate strikes pose dilemma for principals

Carl O'Brien
March 15, 2019

Any move to endorse walkouts poses welfare and safety risks for students

Students Mira Henchi, Theo Cullen-Mouze, Saoi O’Connor, Yasmine Ryan, Emma Kerr, Dan Hatter, Eva Kane, Cian Farrell, Tudor Cucu, Tara O’Neill and Beth Doherty pictured at Leinster House recently after outlining their demands for climate action. Photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish Times

Have your say: Why I’m striking for climate action

March 14, 2019

Tens of thousands of students took part in last Friday’s day of protest

A TCD Hist member speaking on the opposition side against the motion 'This House Would Vote for Mitt Romney to be the next President of the United States of America'. File photograph: Alan Betson

World’s oldest college debating society to celebrate 250th anniversary

Carl O'Brien
March 14, 2019

Trinity College Dublin Historical Society to celebrate its gilded, and star-studded, history

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