Department Of Education

A shortage of qualified teachers is forcing students to turn to grind schools in greater numbers, deepening the divide between the haves and have-nots(...)

Parents are increasingly waiting until their children turn five before starting primary school, latest figures show, which means that many will not le(...)

Library, clerical and administrative staff at institutes of technology across the Republic have commenced industrial action. The the trade union Fórs(...)

The Irish education system is far from perfect, and one could pick at the curriculum being taught to Irish teenagers all day. But following the recent(...)

Storm Callum has caused less destruction than was expected, according to the National Emergency Coordination Group, with hundreds of households still (...)

The National Emergency Co-ordination Group has warned the public to stay away from coastal areas until the lifting of a Status Orange weather warning (...)

When a pioneering group of parents went about trying to set up the State’s first multi-denominational school in the mid-1970s, they quickly realised t(...)

As Emma Mhic Mhathúna’s plain wooden coffin was carried into St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral in Dublin for her funeral Mass on Wednesday, Barry Kerr’s uileann(...)

About 300 Leaving Cert students look set to secure higher preference CAO offers after receiving upgrades to their exam results. On Wednesday, the Sta(...)

The 139,000 children still living in consistent poverty, in the midst of an apparent full-blown economic recovery, are clearly top of Minister for Emp(...)