Minister Batt O’Keeffe has launched a new online game, aimed at teaching students business skills such as marketing, finance and stock management.

An Employer Based Redundant Apprentice Rotation Scheme is to be implemented by FAS to enable apprentices to obtain their final qualification.

The Universities have dismissed proposals to re-introduce bonus points for Leaving Cert maths, claiming the move would not achieve the desired effect.

Nearly EUR1 million has been wasted on an email service that is available to only 21 schools nationwide, Fine Gael TD Brian Hayes has claimed.

A London teacher who was fired for wearing tracksuit bottoms and trainers to school said his colleagues were calling for a ballot on industrial action.

Search giant Google has said it cannot find suitably qualified staff in Ireland because of “dumbing down” in the education system.

Minister Batt O’Keeffe has allocated an extra €2.7m for substitute cover in second level schools and has also confirmed a deal for primary schools.

Ireland has tied with Canada for bottom place in an international comparison of early childhood development policies. Only Sweden fulfilled all ten criteria.

Figures from the 2nd annual return under the CCSS, which subsidises childcare costs in 865 community-based services, have been released.

The NEWB analysis of school attendance data in primary and post-primary schools, from 2003-04 to 2005-06, was published on December 11.

‘Anseo’ is an attendance and administration system designed to meet the requirements of schools. Now in its 8th year and in 74 schools nationwide…

On December 11, Education Minister Batt O’Keeffe launched the 2009 edition of the IPA Yearbook & Diary in the Merrion Hotel, Dublin 2.

While certain politicians watched football in Old Trafford, some 60,000 campaigners staged the biggest education protest in the history of the state.

Fundamental to any educational programme for deaf children is the principle of enabling them to make maximum use of whatever hearing they have got…

For the past four weeks, parents, students and teachers from Dublin’s northside have been picketing the office of Minister Sean Haughey.

6,000 teachers, parents and pupils marched through Donegal town on 29 November to protest against the “draconian measures” planned for schools.

The JMB, which represents up to 400 secondary schools, is awaiting legal advice on whether some grant cuts would breach the 1998 Education Act.

Free second level education did it in the 60’s, the Programme for Research in Third-Level Institutions (PRTLI), launched a decade ago, is doing it now.

Many teachers would like guidance and support in addressing homophobic bullying and in dealing with their own discomfort around homosexual issues.

Researchers now claim that good pre- and primary schools have more impact on children’s academic progress than gender or family background.