The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) has warned that students will not forget if the Labour Party fails to fulfil its promises regarding third level fees.

A Master’s student at NUI Galway has created a website which ranks the online visibility of election candidates nationwide, based on a google search.

Standing at the Front Arch of Trinity College Dublin, Labour TD Ruairí Quinn formally signed a pledge on behalf of his party not to re-introduce third-level fees.

The School of Education at NUI Galway will host three workshops on Project Maths and GeoGebra, a free software tool for use with the new programme.

‘Web Aware’ is a series of online lessons aimed at increasing awareness of potential threats faced by young people when gaming, shopping or socialising online.

New programmes on Raidió Rí-Rá, Ireland’s only Irish-language chartstation, are aimed especially at young people in secondary school and third level.

Dr Brendan Murphy, President of Cork Institute of Technology (CIT), has become the chair of Institutes of Technology Ireland (IOTI) for 2011.

Criteria for payment of the non-adjacent rate of higher education maintenance grant are to be changed, with the qualifying distance almost doubled in 2011.

A new Study Skills Manual to assist students in further and higher education has been launched by Minister for Lifelong Learning Seán Haughey.

Catch the Celtic Tenors in their ‘Home for Christmas’ concert on Dec 20 in the Radisson and enjoy their eclectic mix of classical, folk, Irish and pop.

Mathematics is a “dynamic, sentient and exciting subject” that is not only important for the smart economy but “is crucially a part of human culture, life and society”.

The Equality Tribunal has found that a non-Catholic female teacher who applied for a permanent job at a Catholic school was discriminated against.

While students protest passionately against the return of third level fees, university heads are stating unequivocally that those with means must pay.

An estimated 40,000 students from around Ireland turned up in Dublin city centre on November 3 to protest against increases in third level fees.

USI has expressed horror at a report in The Irish Independent (Oct 16) claiming that students are turning to the sex industry to pay their bills.

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.