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Religious instruction to be provided during school day

At a meeting between the Catholic Commission on Education and Education Minister Batt O’Keeffe, reassurances were given about religious instruction.

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Online Master’s programme receives UK award

The Master’s in Pharmaceutical Medicine offered by Hibernia College, in collaboration with its industry partner Pfizer, won an E-Learning award…

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Todhchaí na teanga ar líne

Over 100 post primary students attended a seminar on Irish Language Technologies held in Áras Inis Gluaire, Béal an Mhuirthead, Co Mayo.

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Seamus Heaney Lecture Series 2008-2009

St Patrick’s College Drumcondra is pleased to announce that the second lecture in the Seamus Heaney Lecture Series will take place on 17 Nov.

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The next big travel trend

Travelling to learn a langauge by taking an immersion course in a native speaking country is set to be the new big trend in travel abroad.

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AN GÚM: Dhá Leabhar nua do Pháistí

Dhá Leabhar nuafhoilsithe do pháistí 8 mbliana+: VERA agus a VEIDHLÍN le Máire Breatnach agus LOUELLA DE LAIGHT le Mary Arrigan.

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Who will march for the Travellers?

The Minister’s announcement that places at Senior Traveller Training Centres will be cut “makes easy targets of people who most need education”.

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Book on young people and dating launched

Nine Transition Year students from St Paul’s Secondary School, Oughterard, Co Galway, have written, designed and produced “Life’s Real Fairytale”.

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IFUT, TUI and USI form coalition

Lecturers and students unite to warn that the Budget provisions will only serve to intensify the problem of educational disadvantage in this country.

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Galway march showed solidarity of education community

The INTO protest in Galway - the first of a nationwide series - was fired by an indignation that was impervious to the driving rain and gusting wind.

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General meeting of parents called

The Federation of Parents Councils in Christian Brothers’ Schools has called a general meeting where parents can voice their concerns about cutbacks.

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Government accused of discrimination

Senator David Norris has said he intends to pursue the case of The Glebe Primary Montessori School, Celbridge, with the Department of Education.

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Novel method of dealing with disruptive pupils

In a bid to curb unruly behaviour, Lambeth Council in south London will spend £90,000 next year on providing reflexology for disruptive pupils.

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ASTI Education Conference 2008

Speech by ASTI general secretary John White at the ASTI Education Conference held in the Grersham Hotel Dublin on 8 November 2008

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ASTI Education Conference: the cuts

Speech by Pat Hurley, president of ASTI, in which he decries the recent Budget as nothing more than a “list of cuts” and an attack on education.

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Irish teacher scoops award in Hong Kong

250 school administrators and education policymakers from 64 countries came to Hong Kong to reward education excellence at the Worldwide Innovative Teachers Forum (ITF).

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Students’ haircuts should be less than “blade three”

An all-boys diocesan secondary school in Limerick has imposed 2-day suspensions on students whose hairstyles did not comply with school rules.

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Plan to protect health of young girls abandoned

The Health Minister has withdrawn the anti-cancer vaccination programme for 12-year old girls which was aimed at eliminating a cancer-causing virus.

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Government working “in long-term interests” of country

The Minister for Education and Science Batt O’Keeffe outlines the rationale behind the stringent measures announced in Budget 2009 for the education sector.

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12th annual Science Week launched

Science Week, Ireland’s national science festival, will take place from 9-16 November, with more than 90,000 people expected to attend the 450 events.

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