Fine Gael senator makes plea for small rural schools
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Writing in today’s Irish Times, Senator Fidelma Healy Eames “respectfully” asks Minister Ruairi Quinn “to review his position on small rural schools”. Read more » |
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Writing in today’s Irish Times, Senator Fidelma Healy Eames “respectfully” asks Minister Ruairi Quinn “to review his position on small rural schools”. Read more » |
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A new Guide launched today urges students to consider language and technology at third level for a potential career in the localisation sector. Read more » |
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As 1,600 primary and post primary teachers retire in February, managers and unions have assured parents that students will not be without teachers. Read more » |
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Any Government plan to establish new university in southeast makes no sense when current system is seriously underfunded, university heads claim. Read more » |
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There has been an important clarification provided by the State Examinations Commission regarding Leaving Cert Geometry for Project Maths in 2012. Read more » |
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The Better Basic programme is completely free to schools and involves schools and community working together to improve Reading and Maths. Read more » |
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An integrated and innovative course for the teaching of the Irish curriculum, researched and written by teachers with many years’ experience. Read more » |
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Parents are turning out to meetings and protests around the country to demonstrate their support for the INTO stance on small rural schools. Read more » |
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On January 19, between 3000 and 4000 parents, children, teachers and principals of DEIS schools protested outside the Department of Education. Read more » |
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The new mapping tool allows users to pinpoint the drive time of a specific area in Ireland from services such as hospitals, schools, fire stations. Read more » |
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A report on nine-year-olds by the Economic and Social Research Institute outlines dramatic differences across schools in the way children are taught. Read more » |
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Speaking in the Dáil, Fianna Fáil education spokesman Brendan Smith called on Government to reverse decision on guidance counsellor provision. Read more » |
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A 22-year-old student of international business and Japanese at DCU has obtained injunctions against a number of internet firms, including Facebook. Read more » |
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The Government is squeezing out small national schools in a bid to make savings, the Save our Small Schools Campaign told a meeting in Cork. Read more » |
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University College Cork (UCC) claims the ESB was negligent and caused severe flooding by releasing too much water in too short a time from dams. Read more » |
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New rules which will open the way for institutes of technology to apply for technological university status are to be agreed by Minister Ruairi Quinn. Read more » |
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Tóstal na Gaeilge, organised by Comhdháil Náisiúnta na Gaeilge with the theme ‘Fortifying the status of the Irish Language’, was held in Dublin Jan 14. Read more » |
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A mathematical project, potentially of value to Nasa and other space agencies, has won the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition 2012. Read more » |
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Parents queued overnight to secure places for their daughters in Presentation School, Tralee, the town’s only all-girls secondary school. Read more » |
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More than 180 parents were brought to court last year for failing to send their children to school and nine of these were given a prison sentence. Read more » |