Committee On Education

Schools may be forced to stop providing access to their facilities by local communities outside of school hours due to restrictions on hiring caretake(...)

Ireland’s universities are seeking a substantial increase in funding to counteract the impact of cuts to the higher education sector over the past dec(...)

Island schools are struggling to provide students with minimum required teaching time or access to key second-level subjects. That is the warning in a(...)

Obesity levels among schoolchildren are stabilising overall and dropping in many schools, new research indicates. The Joint Oireachtas Committee on E(...)

Hundreds of students from less well-off families who attend private third-level colleges in Ireland should be entitled to grants, an Oireachtas commit(...)

The Government will leave the door open to the introduction of a student loan scheme on Wednesday when it opposes a motion to abolish student registra(...)

Brexit could lead to increases in CAO points if thousands of Irish students who study in the UK opt to remain at home, a university president has war(...)

Survivors of childhood institutional abuse say they are being “re-abused” by a statutory body meant to improve their lives. They say that Caranua, w(...)

Just 4.4 per cent of Catholic schools surveyed in the greater Dublin area have refused children admission over an absence of baptismal certificates, (...)

University presidents say the introduction of a student loan scheme is the fairest way of securing vital funding to tackle a “crisis” in higher educat(...)