Department of Education

Many celebrate CAO points haul as 2023 grades are inflated by almost 8%

Points are likely to remain at their 2022 levels ahead of CAO offers coming out next week

It may make this year’s Leaving Cert students happy, but there are downsides to locking in higher grades

Leaving Cert scripts were adjusted upwards in recent weeks

Widely-held belief that CAO points are determined by colleges in advance and remain relatively constant is incorrect

Second level schools forced to hire unqualified staff to fill key subjects, says principals’ group

Enrolments surpass peak last seen prior to the economic crash in 2008

As enrolments in sector climb to a new high, Opposition parties want taxpayer funding to be phased out

Primary schools say move prompted by pupils’ shorter attention spans and rising anxiety levels

Schools report difficulties hiring teachers in key subjects such as Irish, maths, home economics, woodwork and metal work

Despite the introduction of free schoolbooks at primary level, many parents say they still face crippling back-to-school costs

Displaced sitting principal has reached ‘mutually satisfactory’ arrangement with Department of Education, judge told

One in four secondary school parents said they had to take out a loan or borrow from friends in order to meet back to school costs

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Excessive mobile phone use linked to reduced educational performance, UN agency says

Eleven-year fight to clear name was ‘like being caught in quicksand,’ says Wexford school principal on battle with school’s board of management to get job back

Department has needed supplementary funding ‘for every year I can remember’, Minister for Public Expenditure says

Tinkering with constitutional provisions relating to education, the family, or reference to mothers’ role in the home is an activity where the Government might come unstuck

Dozens of sixth years and their parents have contacted Department of Education

New curriculum will be taught in a way that fully integrates LGBTQ+ identities, relationships and families and reflects them in teaching

ChildVision campus opens up the world for children with sight loss

Inquiry’s survivor-engagement process involving completion of questionnaire by those registering interest has completed first phase

Continuous education and training essential for lifelong success in rapidly evolving society

Claim made at inquiry by Teaching Council into behaviour of teacher, who sent part-topless photo of himself to one young teenager and made ‘sexualised’ comments to another

Gaelscoil Choláiste Mhuire has been operating in cramped conditions on Parnell Square for two decades

We should be thankful people still want to be teachers, instead of making it almost impossible for them to live while training

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Social Democrats leader criticises slow process made in divesting schools from religious patronage

Lockers and journals withheld from students whose parents do not pay the charges, says report

Ireland’s new Online Safety Commissioner Niamh Hodnett has requested the main social media platforms remove the videos of the assault

Revamped social, personal and health education programme launched for Junior Cycle students

New sex education curriculum for Junior Cycle includes focus on gender identity

Number of teachers on career breaks climbs to record high

Challenges facing schools in Dublin’s northeast inner city were once considered insurmountable. A pilot project is helping to change this

An inquiry dedicated primarily to one social class and exclusively to one religious denomination will be undermined before it even begins

Delegates at the Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) and Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (Asti) conferences were asked if they agreed with the proposal

Talks on a new public sector pay agreement set to start before summer

INTO welcomes ‘timely review’ of relationships and sexuality education, with new curriculum due in 2025

Extra capacity for 11 schools and hundreds more special classes to be added in mainstream system

Lukas Joyce (14) and Kirsty Bohan (14) killed in Headford early on Monday. Two friends - aged 13 and 14 years - being treated in hospital