“Earn while you Learn”
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Applications are invited for a unique degree course which sees students receiving an incremental salary over three years of study, and tuition fees paid. Read more » |
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Applications are invited for a unique degree course which sees students receiving an incremental salary over three years of study, and tuition fees paid. Read more » |
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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. Read more » |
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Separate custodial sentences for two parents who failed to ensure that their teenagers attended school has been criticised by the Penal Reform Trust. Read more » |
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Project Maths is an NCCA led project which signifies the most fundamental change to maths teaching and learning at second level since the 1960s. Read more » |
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Minister for Education Mary Coughlan has written to College Heads asking them to modify the entry requirement of a pass in higher level maths. Read more » |
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The Net Visionary Awards will be announced on Thursday, May 20, at an awards ceremony to be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Dublin. Read more » |
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A new educational DVD gives post primary students a whistle stop tour of the European institutions and how they work from an Irish perspective. Read more » |
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3,552 school inspection reports are now publicly available on the Department of Education website, with the latest round published this month. Read more » |
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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. Read more » |
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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. Read more » |
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Research conducted by Dr Paul Stevens, involving 746 primary school principals, shows that 41 per cent are victims of workplace bullying. Read more » |
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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. Read more » |
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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’. Read more » |
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Today’s Cabinet reshuffle saw Tánaiste Mary Coughlan switched to Education and Batt O’Keeffe moved to Enterprise, Trade and Employment. Read more » |
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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. Read more » |
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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. Read more » |
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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. Read more » |
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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. Read more » |
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100 teachers, on secondment from teaching to provide professional support for primary and post primary schools, have been ordered back to classroom. Read more » |
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A Department of Education ‘profile analysis’ of grades awarded at Leaving Cert and Higher Education levels has found evidence of ’significant’ inflation. Read more » |