Iognáid O Muircheartaigh, former president of NUI Galway, is to undertake an international study on academic freedom in conjunction with the New York…

Minister Conor Lenihan has met senior FÁS officials to discuss ways of responding to the huge increase in unemployment among immigrants.

The new fees regime will begin in September 2010 and will apply to new college entrants only - but what will the new regime be?

Ruairi Quinn TD has called on the Government to act now to protect the infrastructure of primary schools which are largely owned by the Churches.

Teacher Sharon Boyle from Bush Post Primary School in Riverstown, Dundalk has been honoured for excellence in science teaching.

The 50,000 childcare places promised by the Government under the National Childcare Investment Programme 2006-2010 (NCIP) has been almost halved.

Áine Lawlor, Director of the Teaching Council, outlines the reasons she is proud of the progress the council has made since its establishment in 2006.

The School of Computer Science and Informatics at UCD is seeking to fill 23 PhD posts, eight post-doctoral positions, and two research assistant posts.

Teachers are in “a volatile and uncertain state” about the future of the education system and their own jobs, according to ASTI boss.

Newly qualified and temporary secondary school teachers face the prospect of emigrating to find work, according to the general secretary of the ASTI.

Irish schools are calling on specialists from Britain to train teachers in methods of dealing effectively with the violent behaviour of pupils.

A national school will spend €60,000 on a security fence to keep the building safe after being vandalised twice in three days and 12 times in five years.

The Department of Finance has confirmed that a ban has been imposed on permanent and temporary recruitment in the Civil Service, local authorities…

The Global eSchools and Communities Initiative (GeSCI) is hosting a workshop entitled North/South Research Partnerships for ICT in Education.

This summer, for the fifth consecutive year, Hibernia College will provide a suite of high-quality, DES approved, online summer courses for teachers.

On March 26, a special toolkit for teachers and students on asylum and immigration in the EU was launched at the European Commission offices.

Hibernia College is now inviting applications for a number of new career opportunities which exist as a result of the expansion of its programme suite.

The 1-day national strike planned for March 30 has been deferred, as trade unions and business leaders accept the Taoiseach’s invitation to enter talks.

This major exhibition features large-scale details from the manuscript and explains the background to the Book of Kells, Book of Armagh and Book of Durrow.

Some 4,000 schools will close on March 30 as primary and post-primary teachers join a national one-day work stoppage organised by the ICTU.