The JMB, which represents up to 400 secondary schools, is awaiting legal advice on whether some grant cuts would breach the 1998 Education Act.

The Minister for Education and Science Batt O’Keeffe outlines the rationale behind the stringent measures announced in Budget 2009 for the education sector.

Minister O’Keeffe has promised to publish on the internet the list of schools scheduled for building, along with their prioritisation within the programme.

Right Rev Ken Good, Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, said the Budget proposals break a 1968 agreement reached by the church with the State.

Fine Gael Education spokesman Brian Hayes outlined 32 cuts in education not mentioned by Minister Brian Lenihan in his budget speech.

In outlining the Budget measures, Minister Batt O’Keeffe called on the education partners to “work with him in collectively meeting challenges”.

An OECD report confirms that Irish primary teachers teach some of the largest classes in the developed world, and also have longer teaching hours.

In a confidential paper, the Catholic Church makes clear it is seeking control if its “fair share” of new second-level schools in “greenfield” areas.

Members of North Tipperary Vocational Education Committee (VEC) have unanimously agreed to seek an urgent meeting with Minister Batt O’Keeffe.

Twenty-six schools have builders at the ready but cannot get the promised cash from the Department, according to information revealed by Brian Hayes.

Why do voluntary secondary schools receive 98 euro less in public funding per pupil per annum than schools in the other two post-primary sectors?

Extracts from the address by Noel Merrick, President AMCSS/JMB, to the annual conference of the Association of Management of Catholic Secondary Schools held in Galway on May 1.

The first Catholic state-funded academy, catering for children from age three to sixteen, has been formally opened in London by Bishop Patrick Lynch.

A joint statement from the National Association of Principals and Deputy Principals (NAPD) and the Irish Primary Principals’ Network (IPPN).

The fact that the Department of Education has no detailed view of the school network for which it is responsible has been dubbed “a major failure”.

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