Minister due to publish roadmap for school reopening at end of next week

Large class sizes will make it more difficult to accommodate students, says union leader

Department considers plan that could allow most students return to school full-time in August

Roadmap for reopening schools being drawn up over the next fortnight

Some 98% of Leaving Cert pupils sign up and will receive their results in August

School capacity will still be curtailed even if need for two-metre distance reduced to one

Merger of institutes of technology in Cork and Tralee will cater for 18,000 students

ASTI says proposal to indemnify teachers against legal action is not strong enough

Minister says massive logistical work required to reopen schools in September

Comments dampen call from National Parents’ Council Primary for partial June reopening

Official guidance for schools over use of calculated grades to issue this week

Minister for Education Joe McHugh admits there are ‘legal vulnerabilities’ with new plan

Union agreement will be crucial in facilitating options such as expected grades

Survey of 24,000 sixth years says 79% want exams to be replaced with predicted grades

Exam delay means results could come too late for some to start college in UK or EU

Education sources say option of awarding grades in absence of exams being discussed

Officials looking at how to award grades if summer exams do not happen

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has confirmed that schools will remain closed until autumn

Students to receive State certificate to mark their completion of three years of school

Schools set to conduct their own assessments for students in May under revised plans

Move follows growing concern over impact of delaying exams for 60,000 students

Hpat admissions test results deferred until after Leaving Certificate exams are complete

Leaving Cert likely begin in late July and could run until early September

Kilkenny secondary school is the latest to replace Junior Cycle with its own exams

Joe McHugh says predicted grades ruled out due to ‘inherent bias’ and lack of fairness

Union had stated at weekend that plan ‘cannot be enforced’

School managers urge candidates to take complete break from study over Easter

SNAs will fill vacancies created by nurses and medical staff moving into frontline jobs

Taoiseach says school closures could be extended into April or May

Leaving and Junior Cert oral and practical exams were cancelled on Thursday due to pandemic

Students nationwide carry out protests against proposed on-campus rental increases

Farmers in flood-hit areas of the midlands say their situations are being ignored

Cork students Cormac Harris and Alan O’Sullivan developed education programme to counter gender stereotyping

Pilot project will provide free books for 15,500 pupils in disadvantaged schools

Higher turnover threshold sees 47 mergers notified to body in 2019, 52% down on 2018

Joe McHugh to develop new blueprint to support Irish-medium education

Ethos of religious schools will be protected, Minister for Education says

Move aims to make it easier for qualified educationalists based abroad to move home

Report relates to proposed Bill of not making survivors’ testimonies public for 75 years

Teachers criticise measure which is set to apply to enrolment policies within two years