Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science

Focus shifting from CAO points race and the pressure it puts on students to alternative routes to third-level education

Courses available in healthcare, enterprise, ICT, creative sectors, engineering, manufacturing and construction under unified tertiary system

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

Young people are being put off by their parents who remember the last recession when many construction workers lost their jobs, study finds

State funding aims to help third level institutions build more student accommodation

Simon Harris and Paschal Donohoe launch new plan with announcement of nine new apprenticeship programmes

Seminar provided ‘judgement-free space’ to ask questions about evolving terminology

University president acknowledges accounting error in which €7m in Government funding allocated to wrong financial year

Funding to be used to help students avail of academic mobilities and internships across Europe after Brexit

First initiative of its kind comes as Government seeks to boost number of nurses as well as therapists for disability services

Simon Harris opens €9 million fund to support students entering universities and colleges

Prof David Fitzpatrick want to create more pathways into university for students outside the points race

Minister for Housing Darragh O’Brien due to update Cabinet as Government departments struggle to spend entire budgets

The Wicklow TD gave the keys to the Department of Justice back to Helen McEntee this week but says he was no ‘caretaker’ minister as he returned to the Department of Higher Education

Boom in commodity prices pushed net profits at Australian group to €3.1bn last year

Those working in sector paid average of just €7.88 per hour while excluded from supports for other workers, say representatives

MTU says security systems detected security breach ‘at an early stage’

The seven-year redesign ‘packs a lot into a city-centre site and gears us up for the future’, says the national conservatoire’s director

Students told responsibility for solving course accreditation problem ‘lies with DBS’