Department Of Education
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Ex-principal charged with overstating pupil numbers
- District Court
- April 20, 2018, 12:53
A former Co Longford primary school principal has been charged with fraudulently deceiving the Department of Education of €450,000 by overstating the (...)

Lecturers to take action over ‘unsustainable’ burden of work
- Education
- April 19, 2018, 17:17
Lecturers in institutes of technology have voted in large numbers to begin a campaign of industrial action over “unsustainable” workloads. From next (...)

Almost 1,000 schools waiting for building works
- Education
- April 18, 2018, 18:58
Almost 1,000 schools are waiting for renovations or replacement buildings, according to the latest official figures. A total of 341 schools are on ex(...)

‘We’re worried these children will fall out of the system’: Traveller school to close
- Education
- April 18, 2018, 18:26
For the first time in the history of St Thomas’s school on Dublin’s north side, two of its students are due to sit the Leaving Cert this summer. It m(...)

Eurostat leaves vast third-level borrowings off State balance sheet
- Education
- April 16, 2018, 18:40
The European Union’s statistics agency has confirmed that hundreds of millions of euro in borrowings by Irish universities should remain off the Gover(...)

BAM and Sammon likely to complete unfinished schools in Ireland
- Construction
- April 16, 2018, 14:17
Kildare-based builder BAM is likely to win the contract to complete five schools left unfinished by the collapse of British construction group Carilli(...)

We need more than a plaque to mark Ireland’s history of cruelty
- Heritage
- April 14, 2018, 06:30
What do we do with Ireland’s institutional history? After the reports are issued, and the apologies made, how should Irish society and culture incorpo(...)

School-building programme: where the new schools will go
- Education
- April 13, 2018, 00:01
More than 40 new schools with places for 20,000 pupils are due to be established over the next four years, mostly in the Greater Dublin Area, to keep (...)

Forty-four schools to be built as hundreds of upgrades put on hold
- Education
- April 13, 2018, 00:01
The Department of Education has been forced to put hundreds of applications for major school refurbishments on hold amid pressure to build new schools(...)

Civil servants seek increased ‘divorce leave’
- Irish News
- April 11, 2018, 18:06
Staff in the Civil Service want the Government to provide additional paid leave for those who are going through a marriage separation or divorce. Del(...)