A new project, called 'Digital Diversity', was launched this week in Armagh to provide training opportunities for up to 190 participants north and south of the border

The 30th annual Educational Studies Association of Ireland (ESAI) conference will be hosted by the Education Department, University College Cork, from March 10 to 12.

Pupils in Cheshire, England, are among the first in the country to move towards a “paperless school,” following the introduction of a new system which allows them to file their homework by email.

St George's Comprehensive School in Salford, England, has introduced CCTV cameras into classrooms for the purpose of monitoring teachers' performance and helping them to improve.

McDonalds is to restrict its employment of students in their final two years in school to weekends only.

St Patrick's School in Lombard Street Galway has won a prestigious award for its film documentary on the History of Communication.

St Mary's College, Rathmines, Dublin, has expressed grave concern about a proposal to erect a mobile phone mast on a public building within 25 yards of the school.

A recent EU survey has identified Ireland as the only country out of 30 European countries which has no modern language on the primary curriculum.

The president of UCC, Gerry Wrixon, is set to gain about €6m from the sale of Farran Technology, a Cork-based company which he founded in 1997.

On 9 February 2005, Esat BT announced a donation of €10,000 to the Education and Outreach Programme of the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre (APC) at University College Cork.

UCD has gone into the red for the first time in its history, with a current deficit of €3.5m. Meanwhile, administrators of universities around the country have told the Higher Education Authority (HEA) that most of them will go into deficit in 2005.

Authorities at Trinity College have made significant concessions to staff demands in a revised set of restructuring proposals to be put to the board later this month.

A recent survey in Northern Ireland has revealed that exams cause more stress among teenagers than bullying, with more girls than boys experiencing mental pressure.

A two-day conference on suicide held recently in Dromahair, Co Leitrim, attracted over 600 people from all over the country, most of whom had been bereaved by suicide

Blackrock College, Dublin, is to hand over control of its day-to-day operations to a lay board of management. The move follows a previous decision by the Holy Ghost order to hand over trusteeship of the school to a private company, Desplaces Educational Association (DEA)

Educate Together has complained to the UN Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination that the Irish government has failed to plan and adequately support multi-denominational schools

Following a two-day meeting of bishops and heads of religious congregations at St Patrick's College Maynooth earlier this month, a working group has been commissioned to map out a strategy to preserve the Catholic ethos of Church-run schools

Dr Martin Naughton has donated €5 million to help establish The Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices (CRANN) at Trinity College

Efforts by the French government to modernise the 200-year-old Baccalaureat have not gone down well with France's teenagers

An international conference held in Dublin on 21 Feb, and organised by Education International's European Region, heard some controversial comments and proposals about teaching and teachers