Department Of Education

Parents will on Monday be invited to vote for their preferred patron bodies to run 12 new primary schools which will be established next year in areas(...)

Many public bodies are becoming much more energy efficient and beginning to deliver significant reductions in carbon emissions, but some are only deli(...)

Schools are struggling to recruit time-pressed parents and members of the community to serve in a voluntary basis on school boards. The move has prom(...)

Irish medium schools continue to outperform many of their peer schools with a higher rate of students progressing to higher level education than most (...)

Teachers, staff and students from the Grafton College English-language school rallied for a second afternoon on Tuesday, following the overnight occup(...)

The Department of Education spent nearly €1.8 million posting paper payslips to employees and retirees last year, figures show. According to spending(...)

It’s no surprise to find that schools in Dublin 4 send more students to third-level than schools in Dublin 24. Parents tend to be that bit more taken (...)

Even the best schools, teachers and principals have problems that are outside their control. Schools don’t operate in a vacuum: education is highly po(...)

How can you choose the right school for your child? This year’s Irish Times feeder-school tables – which show the proportion of students who progress (...)

Is the system for exempting schoolchildren from studying Irish fair? It’s a question that goes to the heart of a forthcoming Department of Educat(...)