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.

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

Union of Students in Ireland (USI) has extended a delighted welcome back into its organization to students at National University of Ireland Maynooth.

A culture within the state training agency FAS of “flagrant spending devoid of scrutiny or scruples” has been revealed in another report by John Buckley.

As we enter the second decade of the new millennium, we are no nearer to resolving the numerous conflicts that occur continuously in our schools.

To resolve a dispute, we must relinquish the blame game and find instead the means of returning to existing relationships, says Greg McInerney.

The student maintenance grant has been reduced by 5 percent, while those on Back to Education Allowance will no longer qualify for maintenance grant.

A new survey has revealed that the cost of processing college grants varies from €70 per applicant in Westmeath to €484 per applicant in N Tipperary.

Earlier this month, Letterkenny Institute of Technology (LYIT) issued a letter to students warning that they must pay €500 of registration fee by 11 Dec.

800,000 primary and secondary school students will be offered the swine flu vaccination under a HSE programme which started in schools on Nov 30.

Almost all of TCD’s 2,676 staff members downed tools to join the national one-day protest against government proposals to cut public sector pay.

Third level students across Ireland are invited to put themselves in the shoes of a crisis correspondent and submit their entries to a competition …

Student teachers at NUI Galway, who engaged in a unique Service Learning unit as part of the Postgrad Dip in Ed, were celebrated in a special ceremony.

A UK union has called for the immediate suspension of wi-fi in classrooms until a longterm study into its health effects has been carried out.

The new fees regime will begin in September 2010 and will apply to new college entrants only - but what will the new regime be?

The School of Computer Science and Informatics at UCD is seeking to fill 23 PhD posts, eight post-doctoral positions, and two research assistant posts.

Launched last week in An Chultúrlann, Belfast, www.talkirish.com allows teachers, speakers and learners of Irish to get together to chat in Irish.

‘European Award for Languages - the Language Label’ recognises creative and inventive ways to improve the quality of language teaching and learning.

Minster for Education and Science Batt O’Keeffe addressed 500 Guidance Counsellors gathered for their AGM in the Ormond Hotel, Kilkenny, on 6 March 2009.

Remarks by Éilis Coakley, President of the Institute of Guidance Counsellors, at the organisation’s annual general conference in Kilkenny, 6-8 March.