The largest academic competition in the world, involving more than forty countries worldwide, was hosted over the Christmas/New Year break…

An Employer Based Redundant Apprentice Rotation Scheme is to be implemented by FAS to enable apprentices to obtain their final qualification.

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

Research carried out by UCC and some Institutes of Technology reveals several obstacles preventing migrants from accessing third level education.

Students can now get mobile broadband for 13 euro a month, following a deal between O2 and HEAnet (National Education and Research Network).

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”.

University heads are opposed to the return of the old fees regime, abolished in 1995, but favour the introduction of Australian-style student loans.

Carla Louise Bootman, student at Waterford Institute of Technology, is Ireland’s first ever competitor in the Euroskills international competition.

Third-level students staged a sit-in demonstration outside the Department of Education today, to protest against the re-introduction of tuition fees.

Despite anticipating the holidays, students can experience a sense of loss as they say goodbye to teachers, friends and the accustomed routine.

Political party leaders were out in force to support the Rock the Vote campaign, which encourages young people to vote on the Lisbon Treaty.

Because of the HSE hiring freeze, 100 speech therapists face emigration or unemployment this July, while 4,000 children await assessment.

European Commission Director Martin Territt explained to students why the Treaty of Lisbon is needed, and why the EU is what we make it.

Students from around the country converged on Dublin yesterday for the national launch of a new campaign and website called Please Talk.

A survey, which examined the reasons why underage students are attracted to drugs and binge drinking, has thrown up some interesting results.

Teachers in Wales may get a new tool to counter bullying if education minister Jane Hutt agrees to roll out a mental toughness questionnaire.

A second-year student from Presentation Secondary School, Tralee, Co Kerry, has won the BT Young Scientist of the Year Award 2008.

Leaving Cert students who make their CAO applications online and get them in by 20 Janaury will save themselves €10.

Young Fine Gael slammed the Government’s attitude to young people, following a Dáil debate on 21 November on youth affairs