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Workshop for Guidance Counsellors

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.

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New strategic plan aims to generate more income

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.

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Latest round of school inspection reports published

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

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Actor Colin Farrell supports anti-bullying campaign

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.

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Schools are being “ripped off” by gas bills

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.

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Playing with Shakespeare

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

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Principals are frequent victims of bullying

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

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Who wants to be a principal?

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

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Garda conducts lottery for school places

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.

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Irish Universities are tops in Europe

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.

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Schoolboy’s new concept could save lives

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’.

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Education to become “extememly large department”

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

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Principals reject moratorium on middle management posts

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

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New Minister for Education and Skills

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

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Department has major rethink on patronage of schools

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.

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Plan to rationalise VECs pushes ahead

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.

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Is ‘Project Maths’ the best way forward?

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.

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New TUI Vice President elected

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.

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Máire Geoghegan-Quinn speaks at NUI Galway

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

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The axe falls on professional support jobs

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

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