The Universities have dismissed proposals to re-introduce bonus points for Leaving Cert maths, claiming the move would not achieve the desired effect.

Search giant Google has said it cannot find suitably qualified staff in Ireland because of “dumbing down” in the education system.

For the past four weeks, parents, students and teachers from Dublin’s northside have been picketing the office of Minister Sean Haughey.

A survey reveals that 82 per cent of Fine Gael representatives believe radical revision of our second level system is necessary for effective operation.

An EU-wide survey shows that young Irish people believe in technology and think the Government should spend more money on scientific research.

Nine Transition Year students from St Paul’s Secondary School, Oughterard, Co Galway, have written, designed and produced “Life’s Real Fairytale”.

A top south west London boys’ school has adopted a policy of limiting homework to 40 minutes per night, plus 20 minutes of independent learning.

As more students celebrate better Junior Cert results than in previous years, business leaders slash the examination as “archaic” and “out of touch”.

The AQA exam board is withdrawing from its anthology the poem, ‘Education for Leisure’, in which the protagonist is an angry knife-carrier.

In a pastoral letter issued on May 12, the Catholic bishops stressed that religious education is an essential part of the curriculum in Catholic schools.

Minister Mary Hanafin has announced a new road safety programme, aimed at transition year students, to be piloted in 50 schools in September 2008.

The agricultural science syllabus is four decades out of date, according to farming body Agri Aware, and fails to reflect innovations in farming practice.

The Department of Education has dismayed the education community and employers by backtracking on its decision to introduce three new syllabi.

The geology department at Trinity College is arranging delivery of the 60,000 pieces of six common kinds of rock to all primary and post-primary schools.