By memorising a 500-word article, people between the age of 55 and 70 can significantly improve memory

Ms Síle de Valera has stepped down from her position as junior minister, after almost thirty years in politics

The IPPN detailed the difficulties in recruiting and retaining principals at a meeting with the Oireachtas Education Committee

Padraig O Duibhir has proposed that an independent college be set up to train teachers to teach in Gaelscoileanna

€544 million is to be spent on school building and modernisation projects next year

Students from the fee-paying schools and so-called grind schools are three times more likely to go to university

A Chief Examiner's report has revealed a decline in standards in the case of students taking Leaving Cert Science

A large number of Junior Cert students are disenchanted with school life and exasperated by the slow pace of teaching

A report from the Department of Education on the teaching of English says that many teachers talk too much in class

The number of students sitting the Leaving Cert is at its lowest in a generation

Pictured at the launch: Principal Robert O Leary, developer of the new website, Deborah Brock, Minister Mary Hanafin and Gerard McHugh with children from Scoil an Chroí Ró Naofa, Killinarden, Tallaght, Dublin

Who's Who introduces you to people who are making an important contribution to education in Ireland today

A €400 million development for NUI Galway will see up to 20 large infrastructural projects built on the 260-acre campus

The European Commission is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Erasmus programme, its flagship exchange scheme

4,000 lecturers in Institutes of Technology will be denied the 3% pay rise given to primary and second level teachers

There has been mounting anger among the more diligent students at UL over fellow students hogging computers