The Irish Federation of University Teachers (IFUT) has warned that any changes to core pay for its members can only be negotiated nationally.

Minister for Education Batt O’Keeffe has sanctioned a €3m bill for back payments of pay increases due to 300 senior university professors.

An emergency Oireachtas committee is looking into unauthorised payment of bonuses and allowances to high-ranking staff at Trinity College.

The Irish Primary Principals’ Network (IPPN) presents the last two of a series of seminars titled ‘Your School and the Law’, directed by David Ruddy.

Critics of fee paying schools complain that they cherry-pick the brightest students and exclude those with learning difficulties, travellers, immigrants…

Second and third level students across the country are being offered the chance to win a trip of a lifetime to Ethiopia by Dublin based charity Vita.

A new Flow Cytometry Facility was officially opened on Jan 26 in Trinity College’s Institute of Molecular Medicine, located at St. James’s Hospital.

Dublin woman Anne Jarvis (46) is Cambridge University Library’s first female librarian in its 650-year history. She has been deputy librarian since 2000.

Irish has joined the 80 or so languages worldwide - out of a total of 7,000 - which enjoy the luxury of predictive texting from mobile phones.

The ‘Buy a Miracle Tree’ campaign is designed to emphasise the vital importance of trees to the development of sustainable livelihoods for people of the Horn of Africa.

With the opening of Catholic Schools Week 2009 on Jan 25, the contribution of Catholic schools is being celebrated for the first time at an all-Ireland level.

Minister Andrews met Cardinal Brady and Archbishop Martin to discuss the safeguarding of children and society’s responsibility in this critical issue.

Two of the four members of an “independent” investigation team set up to inquire into the Co Roscommon incest case are employed by the HSE.

The Department of Education has confirmed that 1,000 part-time teachers who were underpaid for seven years will be reimbursed by November 2009.

The State Examinations Commission is reminding people seeking to sit the Leaving Cert as external candidates in June that they must apply by Jan 30.

Due to Budget restrictions, the annual survey of school leavers carried out by the ESRI has been abandoned, a move which is strongly opposed by the organisation itself.

The presidents of UCC and NUI Galway have signed a Co-operation Agreement with the Allianze College of Medical Sciences in Malaysia.

Moyross Voice, a 16-page local newspaper, was launched on January 22 at the University of Limerick by the president, Professor Don Barry.

The Nagle Centre, a computer training facility, has appointed a board of directors with representatives from education, business and voluntary services.

Michael enjoys his work but doesn’t take it home with him, he favours the National Technological University structure for IoT’s, and he admires the new spirit of Barak Obama.