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News and advice on the second-level education system.
Why Ireland needs to stop forcing parents to buy their children laptops for school
Ella McSweeney: Educational technology is now marketed aggressively to schools, which are treating individual laptops as an unquestioned educational good
Enrolments in primary schools set to fall significantly, Department of Education says
Student numbers at first year in second level also starting to decline but there will be significant local variations, briefing document says
With my daughter planning to go to college, what financial supports are available?
Ask Brian: Maintenance grants and fee grants are available to eligible undergraduate students
Are you a parent? The reason teaching is falling apart might hurt your feelings
Secret Teacher: Children’s general level of intelligence and attention spans have plummeted
Classroom to College: When it comes to education, we all have different targets and priorities
We will be running a series of interviews with Leaving Cert students and their parents before, during and after the exams
What is Senior Assassin – the game Leaving Cert students are obsessed with?
Leaving Cert students in desperate need of diversion have embraced the viral game during their last few weeks of secondary school
Leaving Cert 2026: Tell us about how preparations are going and how you are feeling
There is so much to prepare for, and plenty to digest in the aftermath, too – if you can imagine a world where this is actually over!
‘Could my son lose a college offer if CAO details incorrect?’
Parents should ensure that the correct Leaving Cert number is recorded when the Central Applications Office email arrives
Covid and school closures
The official ‘schools are safe’ mantra was patently false to those living it
Final countdown: Exam survival guide for Junior and Leaving Cert students (and parents)
It is normal for students to feel stressed coming up to the written papers. Here are some simple tips that can help you to dial down the anxiety
‘I didn’t know anybody who had gone on to college and barely knew anybody who had a Leaving Cert‘
‘Our learners are as smart as people in mainstream education; they just needed the chance’
Educators should adopt trust-based approach to AI in schools, committee hears
Co-ordinators of a proactive artificial intelligence schools programme in Estonia tell of their experience
Parent-led campaign to push for legislation guaranteeing right to Irish language education
Ireland should follow Wales and compel Department of Education to plan proactively to increase Irish-medium education provision, campaigners say
Preparing to move from primary school to secondary starts now, not in September
A new school can feel like an alien experience. Everything is different
‘My dyslexic son refuses to engage with school support services. Should I force the issue?’
Accepted Dare applicants receive the support of the university disability services throughout their college years
Secret Principal: ‘There is no training that could equip you for this role’
I have attended group counselling for principals to bolster my personal armour. It was of little help
Ten years of Leaving Cert politics and society: ‘Taking turns rowing the lifeboat’
The subject gives students an opportunity to be active participants in discussion and start developing their citizenship
Science teachers offered old telephone box to store chemicals, equipment and students’ work
Teachers express concern they do not have adequate training, resources or facilities for laboratory-based research
‘Living pay cheque to pay cheque’: Teachers feel pinch of cost-of-living crisis
Recent pay rises leave teachers feeling they amounted to ‘half or less than half’ rate of inflation’
Inside the only girls’ boarding school taught entirely through Irish
Sylvia Thompson speaks to students and teachers at Coláiste Íde in Co Kerry
Large number of parents seek shift to multidenominational ethos in schools
Almost three-quarters of parents with children in single-sex schools said they would like to see those schools transition to coeducational
‘My son has an Irish language exemption. Is there anything we need to do?’
National University of Ireland communicates exemption data to the Central Applications Office, which will add it to an application
Students missing subjects over Government ‘failure’ to address teacher recruitment crisis – TUI
Teachers Union of Ireland president Anthony Quinn says teacher retention ‘remains a significant challenge’ in second-level schools
Teacher union conferences expected to focus on pay as inflation increases
Conferences also scheduled to consider workplace stress, school inspections, assaults on staff and impact of recruitment and retention crisis
Intense and fake interviews for teaching posts in one-horse towns
We’re employed with our horizon extending beyond one mere year ... but we have a job
Teachers to consider escalating industrial action over lack of pay rises
Union survey finds high level of concern that AI has changed practical meaning of what constitutes ‘student work’ in Leaving Cert
How can our education system remain fit for purpose for the next generation?
Today, Ireland’s education system finds itself at a critical juncture
Teacher shortages: High cost of living creates Dublin ‘brain drain’
Urban allowance similar to London weighting could help alleviate difficulties in recruiting staff, figures in profession say
Why are we so quick to tell others what they should call themselves?
I don’t understand the issue around students changing their names from ones associated with one gender to those associated with another
Classroom to College: Here’s something to take on board
What’s it like to be a student at one of Ireland’s most expensive schools?
Inside Clongowes Wood: Who sends their child to boarding school in 21st-century Ireland?
What’s it like to eat, sleep, study and partake in extracurricular activities away from home?
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