The Fulbright Irish Language Assistants programme offers Irish language teachers and scholars the opportunity to spend a year teaching in a third-level institution in the US.

Speaking at an IT conference in Berlin yesterday, Minister for Education Mary Hanafin promised to deliver an overdue expert report on IT in schools “within a month”.

The Naughton Institute - a new state of the art centre for nano science - was officially opened on 23 January 2008 at Trinity College Dublin.

Dozens of protesting parents gathered outside a north Co Cork national school, following a 3-day closure of the school due to rat infestation.

Here you will find information about your entitlements, and step-by-step instructions on how to apply for the grant and other support schemes.

Claims of discrimination brought against a UK school by a 14-year-old Sikh pupil are to be heard at the High Court.

The High Court actions of six teachers who claimed they were bullied by their school principal have been settled for “substantial damages”.

Schools in Australia are spending tens of thousands of dollars on high-tech devices to beat bullying in the schoolyard.

Transition Year students have lined up a unique panel of top Irish gurus to speak at their leadership conference in Croke Park

WHO`S WHO introduces people who are making an important contribution to education in Ireland today.

Joe Hayes explains how accurate data collection and parent involvement can improve the future success of today’s students.

A second-year student from Presentation Secondary School, Tralee, Co Kerry, has won the BT Young Scientist of the Year Award 2008.

The benchmarking report has recommended pay increases for 6,000 primary school principals and deputy principals. But there are no increases recommended for most of the 85,000 workers in the education sector.

The biggest review of the British primary curriculum in a decade is to be carried out after increasing concern that the system - especially constant test preparation - is creating unhappy and anti-social children.

There has been an urgent call from medical experts for the introduction of basic CPR (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation) training within schools.

Seamount College in Kinvara, Co Galway, is to remain open until 2012, when it will be replaced by a new co-educational school for 800 pupils.

Leaving Cert students who make their CAO applications online and get them in by 20 Janaury will save themselves €10.

Half of the professionals employed in many Dublin computing firms are non-Irish, due to an acute shortage of Irish computing graduates.

For many years now, students have needed straight A’s in their Leaving Cert to gain entry to medical school. All this is about to change.

Department of Education figures show that the number of teachers retiring early has doubled from 641 in 2001 to 1,340 in 2007.