Applications are invited for a unique degree course which sees students receiving an incremental salary over three years of study, and tuition fees paid.

As the number of full time students in Ireland reaches the million mark for the first time in the history of the State, new teaching positions come on stream.

Separate custodial sentences for two parents who failed to ensure that their teenagers attended school has been criticised by the Penal Reform Trust.

Project Maths is an NCCA led project which signifies the most fundamental change to maths teaching and learning at second level since the 1960s.

Minister for Education Mary Coughlan has written to College Heads asking them to modify the entry requirement of a pass in higher level maths.

The Net Visionary Awards will be announced on Thursday, May 20, at an awards ceremony to be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Dublin.

A new educational DVD gives post primary students a whistle stop tour of the European institutions and how they work from an Irish perspective.

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.

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

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.

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’.

Today’s Cabinet reshuffle saw Tánaiste Mary Coughlan switched to Education and Batt O’Keeffe moved to Enterprise, Trade and Employment.

Last week, the Department of Education rescinded a 2008 decision to give patronage of a proposed new post-primary school in Lucan to Dublin VEC.

Department officials are drawing up proposals for a one third reduction in the country’s 33 VECs with a view to bringing them before Cabinet within weeks.

Educator John Brennan makes a case for postponing the roll-out of ‘Project Maths’ to all fifth year classes in second level schools in September.

In a first for Offaly, the coveted position of Vice President of the Teachers Union of Ireland (TUI) has been won by Denis Magner, Tullamore College.

100 teachers, on secondment from teaching to provide professional support for primary and post primary schools, have been ordered back to classroom.

A Department of Education ‘profile analysis’ of grades awarded at Leaving Cert and Higher Education levels has found evidence of ’significant’ inflation.