Aine Hyland

If I were to bet that education will not be a major electoral issue, my money would be completely safe. Yet there are 371,455 pupils currently enroll(...)

A private school has sparked controversy by introducing a new programme that it says allows students to cover large sections of the Leaving Cert curri(...)

Science teachers say a new science curriculum for pupils completing the junior cycle amounts to a “dumbing down” of the subject. The finding is conta(...)

Not all doom-laden Department of Finance warnings over ambitious public spending plans necessarily come to pass. While the department tasked with kee(...)

Over the next 10 years, the Government will spend an eye-watering €8 billion on new school buildings. It will then hand over the keys – and control – (...)

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(...)

Should a child who attends church services regularly get priority access to their local State-funded school? It’s a question that goes to the heart o(...)

Minister for Education Richard Bruton has set a target for our education system to become the premier one in Europe by 2026. This is an admirable go(...)

Fee-paying schools do not provide any special classes for children with autism or learning disabilities, it has emerged. Disadvantaged schools, by co(...)

The Government’s Brexit Strategy should seek to preserve the closest possible research links between Ireland and the UK, according to the president of(...)