Education
# education - Yesterday’s News
EU groups calls for compulsory training for university professors
The EU group chaired by former president Mary McAleese recommended certified and continuous training for university teaching staff.
# education - Thursday 13 June, 2013
The cost of drinking alcohol and getting an education is increasing
Prices rose by 0.4 per cent in the year to May.
# education - Wednesday 12 June, 2013
Irish children less likely to feel they belong in primary schools
A new report also found that teachers report pupils often coming to class too tired to concentrate.
# education - Monday 10 June, 2013
Over 100 school prefabs to be replaced with permanent classrooms
Minister Ruairí Quinn said the new scheme will see the creation of around 360 jobs.
Parents fight against closure of special needs pre-schools
A mother speaks for her son: ‘I’m disabled but I am here. I am disabled but I want to attend school. I am disabled but I’d like to live my life.’
# education - Sunday 9 June, 2013
More than 1,000 retired teachers back for State exam jobs
Following a promise to prioritise their applications, 250 unemployed and substitute teachers have been hired by the States Examinations Commission.
# education - Saturday 8 June, 2013
Column: We must tackle the underinvestment in pre-school education
Ireland has historically tries to provide education ‘on the cheap’ by affording remarkable influence to religious bodies and other patrons, so the recent childcare controversy should shock – but not necessary surprise – us, writes, Aodhán Ó Ríordáin.
# education - Friday 7 June, 2013
Column: A meaningful housing policy would deal with defaulting landlords and at-risk tenants
The rental market in Ireland is largely an amateur business led by small landlords – but, now, with many property-owners in arrears, tenants face an uncertain future, write Lorcan Sirr and Tom Dunne.
# education - Wednesday 5 June, 2013
And they’re off: 116,845 pupils begin Leaving and Junior Cert exams
It was English paper I for both groups this morning, with Home Ec and English paper II being sat this afternoon.
Another €150 million added to Government’s economic stimulus plan
The extra money will go toward school projects, road maintenance and repairs, and retrofitting for local authority houses.
Quinn wishes students luck in exams during “stressful” time
The Minister said he is “delighted” that 4,000 additional students will sit the Higher Level Maths paper this year.
# education - Tuesday 4 June, 2013
13 Leaving Cert memories that you can never leave behind
No matter how hard you try to forget.
Column: The countdown to Project Maths is on – what should you expect?
This week the State exams begin and Leaving and Junior Certificate students are getting ready to tackle Project Maths. John Devlin has some tips for those worried about the new syllabus.
# education - Sunday 2 June, 2013
The 10 developed countries with the worst quality of life
Income, housing, jobs, education – these are the 10 countries that fared the worst in the OECD’s survey of quality of life.
# education - Thursday 30 May, 2013
Technological Universities to be created in higher education shake-up
The details of the re-organisation of the country’s higher education sector were announced by Minister Ruairí Quinn this morning.
# education - Tuesday 28 May, 2013
Column: What do you want to do with your life?
Life is complicated and has a lot of choices, writes Fergus McCarthy who has some advice for this year’s Leaving Certificate students who have it all ahead of them.
# education - Monday 27 May, 2013
Swedish riots ‘should serve as a wake-up call’ for Ireland
The Integration Centre said that many of the same issues in Sweden exist here and that policymakers must act to address this.
# education - Wednesday 22 May, 2013
13 things we learned from the CSO’s new ‘quality of life’ data
The CSO has published a wide-ranging document, covering everything from household waste to penalty points.
# education - Monday 20 May, 2013
Column: The reality of unemployment is being masked by emigration
With youth unemployment at 23 per cent, the European Union and policy makers have a collective responsibility and obligation to help the “Lost Generation”, writes Liam Aylward.
University lecturers agree to enter new Croke Park talks
The Irish Federation of University Teachers said it was up to the official side to prove that talks on a new pay deal are not just an attempt to persuade people to accept proposals that have already been rejected.
# education - Sunday 19 May, 2013
Column: In Ethiopia, ordinary Irish people doing extraordinary things in difficult circumstances
National Volunteering Week ends today. Here Donnacha Maguire, who is in Ethiopia, tells us about some of the work being done by Irish volunteers in the country.
# education - Saturday 18 May, 2013
55 public-paid educators earning more than the Taoiseach
Figures released by Ruairí Quinn show that 55 people under the remit of the Dept of Education earn over €200,000 a year.
# education - Friday 17 May, 2013
Primary teachers votes for strike action if government cuts their pay
The INTO also agreed to accept an invitation to go back to the talks table with the Labour Relations Commission.
# education - Wednesday 8 May, 2013
Quinn proposes using child benefit funds for free preschool education
The Minister is currently debating the issue with fellow ministers Joan Burton and Frances Fitzgerald.
# education - Tuesday 7 May, 2013
Children in care more likely to be ‘suspended, excluded and leave school early’
“Given that there are currently 6,300 children in the care of the State – a relatively small number”, Emily Logan believes more should be done to support them.
Fee-paying students more likely to go straight to college
The research from the Department of Eduction says that more students from fee-paying secondary schools progress directly to higher education.
Children’s Minister ‘constantly amazed’ at lack of basic services
In a recent broad-ranging interview, Frances Fitzgerald talks about schools being ‘too ashamed’ to stand up to bullying, ‘unacceptable’ waiting lists and ‘bad news’ in service inspections.
# education - Friday 3 May, 2013
Smoke bomb goes off at Cork school
About 30 people were treated for smoke inhalation but nobody was seriously injured.
Fears of repeat delays to grants as SUSI retains a fraction of staff
Sinn Féin’s Jonathan O’Brien says keeping more of last year’s staff would help to avoid a repeat of 2012’s chronic delays.
# education - Sunday 28 April, 2013
Education Minister: ‘Do we really need 150 minutes of religion class per week?’
In a recent broad-ranging interview, Ruairí Quinn talks patronage, third-level fees, Margaret Thatcher’s funeral and his own future.
# education - Saturday 27 April, 2013
Ruairí Quinn: Even conservative groups know homophobic bullying is a problem
In a recent interview with TheJournal.ie, the Minister for Education outlined concerns about homophobic bullying and the bullying of the ‘bright, pretty young person’ in the classroom.
# education - Tuesday 23 April, 2013
‘Nothing on the table’ to provoke teachers’ strike, says Minister
Ruairí Quinn said it is “far too early” to say if legislation will be brought to legislate for pay cuts following the rejection of Croke Park II.
# education - Monday 22 April, 2013
Students protest over delayed opening of €2.7m Kildare school
St Anne’s national school in Ardclough, Kildare was “completed” in December 2011 but remains vacant because minor problems uncovered during an inspection remain unfixed.
# education - Sunday 14 April, 2013
Inside the elite Swiss school that boards children of the rich and powerful
Former students include the last Shah of Iran, Prince Rainier of Monaco and assorted members of wealthy US families Rockefellers and Rothschilds.
# education - Thursday 11 April, 2013
College offers online course in what it means to be Irish
Free open online course allows students here – and abroad – to explore Irish identity.
# education - Sunday 7 April, 2013
Column: Ireland’s educational system is the most unjust structure in our society today
The fundamental role the educational system plays today is determining a young person’s future life choices, so if there is to be equal opportunity, then we need to tackle equal access for all, writes Fr Peter McVerry.
# education - Saturday 6 April, 2013
How do you stop your water bottle leaking onto your iPad?
Hundreds of secondary school students are creating businesses for national entrepreneurship final. This little invention is just one of the entries.
# education - Friday 5 April, 2013
‘Unworkable’: Shatter rejects vetting idea from teachers
Around 42,000 serving teachers will have to be vetted retrospectively under new legislation, which one teachers’ union says will create long delays.
# education - Wednesday 3 April, 2013
Ruairí Quinn: School enrolment to be ‘more structured, fair and transparent’
The minister is to publish a bill which will curtail the “over-use of preferential treatment” in the enrolment process.
# education - Tuesday 2 April, 2013
Teachers’ union votes to reject further talks on Croke Park 2
The Teachers’ Union of Ireland also proposed the withdrawal of goodwill tasks like supervision duties.
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