Department Of Education

Last year, Leaving Cert students said goodbye to As, Bs and Cs, and hello to higher (H) and ordinary (O) 1s, 2s and 3s, all the way down to a grade 8 (...)

Vulnerable children with life-threatening conditions are unsafe and at risk due to a lack of nursing supports in schools, a State advisory body for sp(...)

Government inaction means parents are once again being forced to subsidise an “underfunded education system” with the number of schools asking for a s(...)

Plans to convert hundreds of primary school teachers to second-level teachers are being explored by the Department of Education as part of a series of(...)

The State’s first technological university - based on the merger of Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT), IT Tallaght and IT Blanchardstown - is set t(...)

Catholics bishops have called on the Minister for Education to withdraw a directive which allows students who opt out of religious instruction in Stat(...)

The opening of a number of schools in time for the new school year is in doubt following pickets by subcontractors who say they have not been paid mon(...)

The State’s first technological university is set to be announced later this week based on the merger of Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT), IT Tall(...)

“It is very tough to keep chipper and to not let it grind you down.” So says Cathleen Shiels, a clerical officer working for the Department of Educat(...)

Sausage rolls, chips, mini-pizzas, Danish pastries and cookies. They are just some of the staples on the menus of most secondary school canteens today(...)