The Annual Delegate Conference of the Irish Federation of University Teachers (IFUT) was held in the Gresham Hotel, Dublin, on April 24.

Addressing the IFUT conference, Mike Jennings spoke of the anger and shame of Irish people, and the sense of belittlement of public sector workers.

“IFUT advises members not to co-operate with work load management or full economic costing [FEC] models that are not negotiated and agreed with the union.”

Kieran Mulvey, chief executive of the Labour Relations Commission, was the first general secretary of IFUT - appointed almost 35 years ago at the age of 24.

A workshop for all Guidance Counsellors interested in exploring the new REACH+ programme will be held at 2pm on May 11 at the Red Cow, Dublin.

UCD, now ranked among the top 100 universities worldwide, is to increase its intake of post-graduate and foreign students in order to boost its income.

3,552 school inspection reports are now publicly available on the Department of Education website, with the latest round published this month.

A campaign launched in Ireland this month to end homophobic bullying has become news around the world due to support from Hollywood superstar Colin Farrell.

Schools are being charged one-third more for gas than they should be because they are treated as businesses, Fine Gael TD Brian Hayes says.

Theatre company ‘Blackwater Projects’ has devised a series of workshops to help Leaving Cert students to tackle the exam question on Shakespeare.

Research conducted by Dr Paul Stevens, involving 746 primary school principals, shows that 41 per cent are victims of workplace bullying.

Academic researchers at DCU report that even senior teachers with a masters in educational management have no appetite for the job of principal.

This year, Gorey Community School - one of the biggest in the country at 1,600 pupils - held a lottery to allocate remaining places for Sept 2010.

Hard on the heels of the furor about grade inflation and graduate quality, the news now is that Irish Universities are top of an EU ‘efficiency’ league table.

Sixteen year old Paul Bowden from CBS, Thurles, Co Tipperary has won Agri Aware’s Green Dragon Innovation Challenge 2010 for his ‘One-hand Reel’.