A workshop for all Guidance Counsellors interested in exploring the new REACH+ programme will be held at 2pm on May 11 at the Red Cow, Dublin.

UCD, now ranked among the top 100 universities worldwide, is to increase its intake of post-graduate and foreign students in order to boost its income.

3,552 school inspection reports are now publicly available on the Department of Education website, with the latest round published this month.

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.

Schools are being charged one-third more for gas than they should be because they are treated as businesses, Fine Gael TD Brian Hayes says.

Theatre company ‘Blackwater Projects’ has devised a series of workshops to help Leaving Cert students to tackle the exam question on Shakespeare.

Research conducted by Dr Paul Stevens, involving 746 primary school principals, shows that 41 per cent are victims of workplace bullying.

Academic researchers at DCU report that even senior teachers with a masters in educational management have no appetite for the job of principal.

This year, Gorey Community School - one of the biggest in the country at 1,600 pupils - held a lottery to allocate remaining places for Sept 2010.

Hard on the heels of the furor about grade inflation and graduate quality, the news now is that Irish Universities are top of an EU ‘efficiency’ league table.

Sixteen year old Paul Bowden from CBS, Thurles, Co Tipperary has won Agri Aware’s Green Dragon Innovation Challenge 2010 for his ‘One-hand Reel’.

The rebranding of the Department of Education & Science as the Department of Education & Skills has been broadly welcomed by the business sector.

Principal Brendan Forde warned that principals who are members of ASTI would not take on duties associated with posts of responsibility this autumn.

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

Last week, the Department of Education rescinded a 2008 decision to give patronage of a proposed new post-primary school in Lucan to Dublin VEC.

Department officials are drawing up proposals for a one third reduction in the country’s 33 VECs with a view to bringing them before Cabinet within weeks.

Educator John Brennan makes a case for postponing the roll-out of ‘Project Maths’ to all fifth year classes in second level schools in September.

In a first for Offaly, the coveted position of Vice President of the Teachers Union of Ireland (TUI) has been won by Denis Magner, Tullamore College.

On March 19, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn delivered her first public address in Ireland since becoming European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science.

100 teachers, on secondment from teaching to provide professional support for primary and post primary schools, have been ordered back to classroom.