Education
# education - Tuesday 5 March, 2013
North Wall could be a pilot project for better education
A new report will recommend driving the community approach to education in the Dublin city area.
# education - Saturday 2 March, 2013
Primary teachers’ union won’t recommend how to vote on Croke Park
The executive of INTO, which has 32,000 members in the Republic, will ballot its members without a formal recommendation.
# education - Friday 1 March, 2013
The leave-it-out lady teaches Irish too
Ah, Fág Amach é.
Six months into year, 14pc of SUSI applicants still without grants
Nearly 10,000 students have either been approved a grant but not yet paid, or have applications still being processed.
Coalition sees disagreements over student grants
While Labour TDs believe the change makes “perfect sense”, there is opposition from some Fine Gael TDs.
# education - Monday 18 February, 2013
Explainer: What’s on the table in the Croke Park talks?
The government is seeking additional savings from the public sector, setting it on a collision course with unions. Here’s what it’s all about…
# education - Saturday 9 February, 2013
Free seminar aims to support deaf teens and their parents who feel isolated
Irish Deaf Kids said students with hearing difficulties are now benefiting from modern technologies, which should be used more in schools.
# education - Friday 8 February, 2013
Additional educational supports needed for children in disadvantaged areas – study
The availability of pre-school education has been shown to result in improved attendance, behaviour and social skills in children from disadvantaged areas.
# education - Monday 4 February, 2013
Video: Malala says she has been given a “second life” to keep campaigning
The 15-year-old schoolgirl who was shot in the head by the Taliban said she is “getting better day by day”.
# education - Wednesday 30 January, 2013
Students lash out at plans to change law on universities
Five students’ unions believe allowing the government to control pay rates will also mean controlled curricula.
Ireland launches ‘radical’ new university rankings system
The new system called U-Multirank was launched under Ireland’s EU presidency today.
# education - Tuesday 29 January, 2013
Alliance Party calls for legislation on flags and emblems
The party said all permanent emblems should be subject to planning consent.
Government to launch major anti-bullying plan
Ministers Ruairà Quinn and Frances Fitzgerald will unveil the Action Plan on Bullying later today, including plans for all schools to keep a formal record of bullying incidents.
# education - Sunday 27 January, 2013
Calls for Ireland to (finally) outlaw corporal punishment in the home
Corporal punishment was banned in schools in 1982 but is still legal in homes – despite repeated calls for it to be stopped.
# education - Friday 25 January, 2013
Irish firm launches ‘Rollcall’ app to help monitor school absenteeism
National Education Welfare Board research from 2012 showed that over 56,000 students miss school each day in Ireland.
# education - Tuesday 22 January, 2013
8 funny wrong answers kids have given on tests
What is a nitrate? You might be surprised…
College will waive fees for those who host foreign students
Irish students at Griffith College in Dublin, Cork and Limerick can secure a fee waiver for one year if their family provides accommodation and board for an international student.
Campaign to set up Educate Together secondary school in Dublin
New ET secondary schools are planned for Blanchardstown and Lucan – but parents say there’s a demand in the city itself.
# education - Monday 21 January, 2013
Department to issue bullying guidelines to schools this week
The Department of Education will also release mental health guidelines for post-primary schools in the near future.
# education - Sunday 20 January, 2013
Student grant backlog almost cleared (but 21k told applications were incomplete)
New figures show SUSI is onow dealing with just 619 applications, down from a high of 55,000.
# education - Saturday 19 January, 2013
# education - Friday 18 January, 2013
Oireachtas agenda: Dáil to debate social welfare ‘amnesty’
Sinn Féin wants to make it legally possible for someone to declare a welfare overpayment without penalty.
# education - Monday 14 January, 2013
PICS: Students’ unions hand out food bags as grant crisis continues
The union at Galway-Mayo IT is handing out bags of food to hard-up students as SUSI continues catching up on grant payments.
Survey begins asking parents who should run primary schools
Ruairà Quinn said the survey is a historic opportunity to parents say whether schools should be denominational, multi-denominational, all-Irish or something else.
# education - Friday 11 January, 2013
Three Kinsale teens win at BT Young Scientist Exhibition
The prize is heading to the Cork school for the third time in seven years.
# education - Wednesday 9 January, 2013
PICS and VIDEO: BT Young Scientist competition gets underway
Enda Kenny and Ryan Tubridy both visited the RDS today.
# education - Tuesday 8 January, 2013
Free access to Encyclopaedia Britannica for school-going children
Schoolchildren throughout Ireland can now access the online version of the encyclopaedia from their home.
# education - Monday 7 January, 2013
Struggling students given food boxes as 5,500 still wait for grant
The Union of Students in Ireland says students are going to college hungry – while one college has set up a soup kitchen for students who can’t afford food.
# education - Tuesday 1 January, 2013
Malala Yousafzai to receive Tipperary International Peace Award
“The Taliban tried and failed to silence her and have instead amplified her voice.”
# education - Monday 24 December, 2012
Chevron Training successfully exits examinership
The company’s 15 jobs have now been saved as it has secured two new contracts for 2013.
# education - Thursday 20 December, 2012
Column: I was a school bully. This is how I felt.
I bullied others under the cover of ‘craic’ – and I know the profound effects it can have, writes Rick Nash.
81 per cent of households now have internet access
The figures from the CSO also show that 19 per cent of unemployed people have never used the internet.
# education - Sunday 16 December, 2012
Further education sector to be damaged by budget cuts
In a letter to a Sinn Féin TD, one teacher said the government have no understanding of how further education works.
# education - Thursday 6 December, 2012
Counting the pennies: where your tax money will go in 2013
The government’s going to spend €69 billion in total next year. So where does the average taxpayer’s money go?
# education - Wednesday 5 December, 2012
Budget 2013: Government announces €250 hike in college fees
The Government has announced plans to introduce a €250 hike in college fees and a reduction in the income threshold for those eligible for maintenance grants.
# education - Thursday 29 November, 2012
Revealed: the life of a 13-year-old growing up in Ireland
Here’s what it’s like to be a young teenager living in Ireland.
# education - Tuesday 27 November, 2012
Survey: Almost half of primary schools in deficit
According to the survey, 22 per cent of schools are breaking even, while 93 per cent receive a minor works grants for repairs.
# education - Saturday 24 November, 2012
Here is the week’s news… skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: Gardaà lack resources to monitor Love/Hate characters; HSE inquiry to proceed without actually inquiring; and student grants delayed until after emigration.
# education - Thursday 22 November, 2012
Situation being resolved at Kilfinane school
Parents had blockaded the school after builders began removing fittings from the building. The school principal told TheJournal.ie that the fittings are now being put back.
Parents blockade Limerick school after builders remove fittings
A dispute over payment has seen some subcontractors attempt to remove fittings they installed in the new national school in Kilfinane earlier this year.
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