Competition winners John Breen and Morgane Conaty were awarded digital cameras for themselves, and a trip to the W5 Science Discovery Centre in Belfast for their classmates…

I’m Liz and in this weekly blog I’m going to be talking about the Be Real Game. The Game is a teaching resource that involves role play and allows students to experience the challenges of adult work and life in a simulated setting, working in small groups and operating as communities.

Hi! I’m Dearbhla and in this blog I am going to share with you my experience, week on week, of studying to qualify as a primary teacher - the highs, the lows, the successes, the stresses, the challenges, the fun, the lot. I hope you will join in too and answer back at the end of my blog each week!

An annual report which examines the running of five pilot PPP schools finds a failure to provide maintenance and management services due under their contracts, lack of clarity and insufficient communication …

Dr Trevor Morrow claims that Irish people are sacrificing their children, their health and even their own lives for money.

There have been calls on the government to give children back their childhood after new research revealed that carers can be as young as six.

A workshop on the future of transport infrastructure for Galway will focus in particular on how Galway can become a sustainable city with the introduction of a Light Rail System.

Educate Together CEO Paul Rowe said he was satisfied that all patron bodies were committed to an Irish education system free from any form of racist division.

Ronan Hennessy will take his audience on a virtual field trip of the Connemara landscape, following the now disused 49 mile long railway line.

MEDIA | LITERACY | EDUCATION is a one-day symposium for teachers, academics, community and youth workers, parents’ representatives, media practitioners and civil society with an interest in media education and media literacy in Ireland.

After four years of public rows, the €62 million Cork Institute of Technology’s (CIT) Cork School of Music finally opened its doors to students this month.

The Irish National Teachers’ Organisation has advised schools to inform parents that they are not responsible for children outside school hours.

Ireland’s first ever Graduate Medical Programme started at the University of Limerick this month with 32 students, including one from Canada.

The new policy on leisure time facilities for young people, developed by the Office of the Minister for Children, promotes new initiatives and the need for inter-agency co-operation

Oral piercings have been identified by dentists as a significant risk to young people’s oral health, and in extreme cases can result in life threatening infections

Parents are advised not to buy food products containing certain additives

Poor planning by the Department of Education is the cause of the current enrolment crisis in north and west Dublin schools

A colleague pays tribute to Jim Dorney, general secretary of the Teachers’ Union of Ireland, as he announces his retirement.