Schools will not lose more than one SNA per year under new redeployment plans
Cabinet signs off on scheme following earlier public backlash over plans to cut roles
Hildegarde Naughton
Special needs assistant workforce development plan to be brought to Cabinet
Role of SNAs to be professionalised after Government backed down on plans to reduce number of educational assistants in schools
Number sitting Leaving Cert climbs to record level
Over the Leaving Cert, Leaving Cert Applied and Junior Cert, 146,553 candidates will sit their exams
Dyslexic students should get extra points, mother of Leaving Cert pupil says
Extra 10 minutes given in each exam to students with special educational needs is ‘insulting’
Coalition row looms with no new Irish-language schools planned to open until 2032
Fianna Fáil to speak with Hildegarde Naughton over lack of educational pathway for Irish speakers
Irish senior cycle reforms have resulted in some farcical situations
How Additional Assessment Components are working in classrooms and an increasing dependence on iPads and Chromebooks raise concerns
Summer programme applications for children with complex needs to reopen after ‘botched’ launch
Opposition says decision to open online applications portal for nine days only was ‘deeply unfair and badly handled’
Government departments fear being asked to cough up due to Health overspend
HSE chief reveals ‘significantly worsened’ financial position in March when €250m overrun recorded in first quarter
A Government candidate has not won a byelection since 2014. That may be about to change
Strong showing by Independent Ireland and Labour candidates in Irish Times, TG4 and B&A poll of voters
‘It makes no sense’: Parents devastated by proposed SNA cuts in schools
Letters highlight family concerns in lead up to Government U-turn on controversial review
Department of Education to receive €646m to fill budget hole
Other departments to contribute €446m while €200m drawn from contingency fund
Student who applied for Braille books in transition year got them week before Leaving Cert
Jen Cummins says treatment of pupil ‘heartbreaking’ and says planned special education forum is just another ‘talking shop’
School patronage: Can Hildegarde Naughton succeed where six other education ministers have failed?
Much of the opposition to divestment has been at local level, strongly felt and expressed, even by non-practising parents happy with the status quo
Robert Watt set to be paid €280,000 a year to lead Dublin city regeneration body
Former Department of Health head expected to be approved by Cabinet on Tuesday
Gas company seeks to cut off supply to school that owes thousands in arrears, PAC hears
Some principals and teachers going to work two hours early to ‘mop out schools when it rains’
Boston Scientific invests €75m in R&D expansion in Galway
Group says latest investment will support medtech giant’s priority cardiovascular programmes as well as emerging areas of interest
Is it time to get religion out of the classroom?
Two in five parents of pupils in religious-run schools would prefer a multi-denominational ethos
Science teachers offered old telephone box to store chemicals, equipment and students’ work
Teachers express concern they do not have adequate training, resources or facilities for laboratory-based research
AI technology could render education a ‘wild, wild west’, says union official
New schools taskforce designed to examine evolving implications for teaching, learning and policy
Teachers must receive substantial pay rise, ‘no ifs or buts’, says ASTI
General secretary of second-level teachers’ union says Government has not moved on from mindset of austerity
Department of Education faces €500m deficit amid funding row
Minister for Public Expenditure drawing up proposals for levy on other departments to address underfunding
The Irish Times view on school divestment: painfully slow
A substantial minority do not want religious patronage and the State , has a duty to meet that demand
Education: More than 20,000 ASTI union members set ‘to be excluded’ from promotional posts
Contentious issue of roles to be established by Coalition to support students with Leaving Cert reforms surfaces at annual conference
‘My ability to work was taken from me’: Teacher still reeling from classroom incident
Episode led Sophie Cole to develop Complex Regional Pain Syndrome and become reliant on invalidity benefit aged just 30
Catholic school patrons open to change – but choice is theirs, Minister says
Government-commissioned survey found parental support for changing ethos in schools
Government departments are using AI, but one clear red line has been laid down
Ministers maintain human oversight remains a non-negotiable component in carrying out certain tasks
Large number of parents seek shift to multidenominational ethos in schools
Almost three-quarters of parents with children in single-sex schools said they would like to see those schools transition to coeducational
Teacher union conferences expected to focus on pay as inflation increases
Conferences also scheduled to consider workplace stress, school inspections, assaults on staff and impact of recruitment and retention crisis
Serious row rages over existing spending levels as teachers demand more resources
Minister for Education seeks reset in her core budget while Department of Public Expenditure is concerned about rising costs of special needs education and school transport scheme
Minister for Education seeks several hundred million in extra funds and budget ‘reset’
Additional money would go towards special education services and school transport scheme
Underfunding in education
Minister might well reflect on fact that virtually every household in the country will be ‘not adequately funded’ this year due to energy costs
‘I had to lose my daughter for everyone else to gain’: Students told of consequences of Coco’s Law
Some pupils were surprised to hear that the law also applies to minors
Minister for Education defends projected department overspend of up to €700m
Hildegarde Naughton makes ‘absolutely no apologies around the need to make sure we are adequately funded’
Department of Education’s €600m overspend to be bailed out by other departments’ budgets
The cost of the overspend will have to be met from reducing spending increases elsewhere – a development likely to infuriate Ministers
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