A 15-week trial which involves tracking children around schools by means of microchips is to begin this week in the UK. The microchips will be embedded in the students’ uniforms.

The guest speaker at this event will be clinical psychologist David Coleman, of the RTE 1 television series Families in Trouble, who will speak to parents on the issue of children’s rights.

Ten per cent of pupils aged under 16 missed 20 schooldays or more last year, with at least 10,000 of those considered to be “serious attendance cases” - either school dropouts or serial absentees.

Two thousand copies of a book titled ‘Judging de Valera’ have been distributed free to 720 schools by the Department of Education & Science.

The revised timetable for the state examinations will see Leaving Cert students facing less writing next summer in the first few days of the exams.

Queen’s University researchers are appealing for volunteers to help investigate whether dogs can detect changes in their owner’s diabetic state.

Puppet shows, hand made crafts and gifts, delicious home made soups cakes and drinks, and festive musical performances … All funds raised go towards the running of the school.

Senator Paschal Donohoe claims the Government has spent €111 million on temporary school accommodation since 2000, in spite of warnings by the State financial watchdog that it could be cheaper to build new classrooms …

This year’s Royal Irish Academy Gold Medals have been presented to archaeologist Professor George Eogan and biochemist Dr John Fuller Atkins, for their outstanding contribution to the humanities and life sciences.

TIE Examinations Ltd, in association with the Advisory Council for English Language Schools (ACELS), is to launch a new test of academic English for students studying or working in Ireland.

The Teachers Union of Ireland (TUI) has directed school principals to withhold important paperwork, normally sent to the Department of Education at this time of year, until a dispute has been resolved.

An Australian educationalist has urged the Irish bishops to re-examine their policy on teaching English in schools, in light of the recent wave of immigration to Ireland.

Minister Mary Hanafin has rejected calls to withdraw her directive that English should be taught to pupils in all-Irish schools from the second term of junior infants.

Dr. Sean Rowland is the new president of the Harvard Club of Ireland, a network which provides educational, social and outreach opportunities to alumni and friends of Harvard University.

Young Fine Gael slammed the Government’s attitude to young people, following a Dáil debate on 21 November on youth affairs

The Irish Independent reports that grind and fee-paying schools continue to send more students to university.

The biggest ever consultation of young people in Ireland, organised by the Ombudsman for Children, has revealed that the majority value family and care above all else.

Science Week Ireland 2007, which took place from 11 - 18 November, attracted visitors in their thousands to its varied programme of events.

Four Protestant schools have initiated legal action against the Department of Education because they were “not consulted” on a controversial redeployment deal now in operation.

An IT integrated infrastructure valued at €300,000 has been implemented by Belvedere College Dublin