The programme is suitable for use by teachers, social workers, speech therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, and childcare professionals.

This series of paintings, exhibited at The Pavilion Theatre, deals with “the changing cityscape in Dublin, its construction and destruction”.

Now in its 13th year, DLR Poetry Now has grown into one of Ireland’s biggest and best-loved festivals of poetry. It runs at The Pavilion Theatre, 3-6 April.

30,000 former students of Waterford IT are being asked to support FUSE, a campaign which is seeking full university designation for the college.

The University Quality-of-Life Index 2008 rates universities in Britain on factors such as local house prices, crime rates, schools, traffic congestion.

The Fine Gael plan, disclosed on 9 March, favours an ‘umbrella university’ to embrace the institutes of technology, and university status for WIT and DIT.

The Labour Court has awarded €8,500 compensation for age discrimination to a former assistant lecturer at Mary Immaculate College Limerick.

An Equality Tribunal has awarded secondary teacher Mary Frances O Conghaile €10,000 on the grounds of age discrimination.

This Easter, the ASTI’s Annual Convention will take place in the Malton Hotel, Killarney, Co Kerry, from Tuesday 25 March to Thursday 27 March.

Chief Justice John L Murray officially presented a tailor-made law module for secondary schools to Minister for Education Mary Hanafin on 6 March.

Students from around the country converged on Dublin yesterday for the national launch of a new campaign and website called Please Talk.

A meeting which took place last night between Fianna Fail backbenchers and Education Minister Mary Hanafin failed to change the minister’s mind.

Experiment in International Living (EIL) is offering students a chance to win an all-expenses cultural holiday abroad.

A Computer Programming and Game Design course has been launched by National Learning Network, the education division of the Rehab Group.

A statement by Sean Cottrell, Director of IPPN, expresses the extreme frustration of principals at the continuing lack of a strategy for ICT in schools.

The first university-based Apple Regional Training Centre in Ireland has opened in the School of Education at Galway University.

The establishment of a new federation to include the three teachers’ unions and IFUT will be discussed at next month’s Easter conferences.

Research suggests that 10% of children could have a “working memory” impairment that causes them to do less well than expected in school.

A survey, which examined the reasons why underage students are attracted to drugs and binge drinking, has thrown up some interesting results.

Over 50 backbenchers are to meet Minister Mary Hanafin this week to discuss their concerns over the government’s approach to autism.