Work on the development of two new Leaving Certificate subjects - Politics and Society and Physical Education - is at an advanced stage, and draft syllabuses in both are expected to be available next year.

A new Educate Together national school, due to open in Charlesland, Co Wicklow in September 2008, has been inundated with applications, even though no site has yet been allocated for the school.

Employers could be held liable if an employee is found to have died by suicide as a result of mental ill-health caused by work conditions, a conference at NUI Galway was told last week…

The National Educational Welfare Board (NEWB) has confirmed that legal proceedings have been initiated against a former staff member.

Extensive research carried out by the British Institute of Fiscal Studies suggests that students’ age, in comparison to their classmates, is an important factor in academic performance.

Increasing parent accountability is crucial, according to USA Republican Steve Edwards, who wants to see Parent Report Cards introduced …

Bullying was found to be the top concern of parents in relation to their children and was also the top concern of children themselves.

In spite of recent attempts by the government to boost second-level retention rates, a major ESRI survey reveals that we have been at a stand-still since 1991.

A new and potentially powerful lobby group, involving parents, teacher unions and school managers, was officially launched on 12 November.

Questions to be explored this Saturday at the ASTI’s Education conference include: What is the best way to implement Senior Cycle reform in second level schools? How can we retain the best elements of the current Senior Cycle Programme? How can examination and assessment at Senior Cycle help students realise learning goals?

An injunction has been obtained to prevent Minister Mary Hanafin from applying her policy on the teaching of English in all-Irish schools.

The Culture Conference, hosted by the University of Limerick, was attended by over 100 experts in the field from a wide variety of countries and continents.

Minister of State for Overseas Development, Michael Kitt, will officially open the conference on 24 Nov. Over 200 practitioners and academics working in the field of international development and development education are expected.

A poem on the English syllabus for Junior Certificate has been criticised by Independent TD Tony Gregory and by the Irish Council against Blood Sports.

The world’s top ten universities are in the United Kingdom or in the United States, according to this year’s World University Rankings from The Times Higher Education Supplement.

In October, two more groups of students graduated from Hibernia College with Higher Diplomas in Arts in Primary Education.

Am back home in Kerry and in the middle of my second teaching practice - the sacred rite of passage (or baptism of fire) that all student teachers must endure in the infancy of their careers. Has my experience in Junior Infants really prepared me for 6th class boys?