Statements by university heads opposing technological universities have been seen as “an arrogant dismissal of IoTs as second-class institutions”.

Ireland’s first National Early Years Strategy is to be developed during 2012 by the Department of Children in consultation with other key stakeholders.

Writing in today’s Irish Times, Senator Fidelma Healy Eames “respectfully” asks Minister Ruairi Quinn “to review his position on small rural schools”.

A new Guide launched today urges students to consider language and technology at third level for a potential career in the localisation sector.

As 1,600 primary and post primary teachers retire in February, managers and unions have assured parents that students will not be without teachers.

Any Government plan to establish new university in southeast makes no sense when current system is seriously underfunded, university heads claim.

There has been an important clarification provided by the State Examinations Commission regarding Leaving Cert Geometry for Project Maths in 2012.

The Better Basic programme is completely free to schools and involves schools and community working together to improve Reading and Maths.

An integrated and innovative course for the teaching of the Irish curriculum, researched and written by teachers with many years’ experience.

Parents are turning out to meetings and protests around the country to demonstrate their support for the INTO stance on small rural schools.

On January 19, between 3000 and 4000 parents, children, teachers and principals of DEIS schools protested outside the Department of Education.

The new mapping tool allows users to pinpoint the drive time of a specific area in Ireland from services such as hospitals, schools, fire stations.

A report on nine-year-olds by the Economic and Social Research Institute outlines dramatic differences across schools in the way children are taught.

Speaking in the Dáil, Fianna Fáil education spokesman Brendan Smith called on Government to reverse decision on guidance counsellor provision.

A 22-year-old student of international business and Japanese at DCU has obtained injunctions against a number of internet firms, including Facebook.

The Government is squeezing out small national schools in a bid to make savings, the Save our Small Schools Campaign told a meeting in Cork.

University College Cork (UCC) claims the ESB was negligent and caused severe flooding by releasing too much water in too short a time from dams.

New rules which will open the way for institutes of technology to apply for technological university status are to be agreed by Minister Ruairi Quinn.

Tóstal na Gaeilge, organised by Comhdháil Náisiúnta na Gaeilge with the theme ‘Fortifying the status of the Irish Language’, was held in Dublin Jan 14.

A mathematical project, potentially of value to Nasa and other space agencies, has won the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition 2012.