Education
# education - Saturday 6 October, 2012
Here is the week’s news… skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: Children’s hospital site for Balbriggan? TDs to stay home to cut costs? Chinese takeaways off menu for athletes?
NCA following up on parents’ complaints as Schoolbooks.ie problems continue
Some parents continue to experience problems with book orders and refunds as the National Consumer Agency says it is has received around 250 queries in relation to the online retailer.
# education - Thursday 4 October, 2012
Formal Junior Cert exams abolished under new system
Reforms announced by Ruairà Quinn this afternoon replace terminal exams with continual assessment – with the terminal exams scrapped altogether by 2020.
# education - Wednesday 3 October, 2012
Irish universities fail to make Top 100 list
Neither made the Top 100 but who came out on top between TCD and UCD?
The 5 at 5: Wednesday
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
# education - Tuesday 2 October, 2012
Mind = Blown Video of the Day
Happy Hexaflexagon Month to you and yours.
# education - Monday 1 October, 2012
The 9 at 9: Monday
Good morning! Here are nine things you should know as you start your day…
# education - Friday 28 September, 2012
WIT president increased office spending 20-fold in eight years, TDs are told
TDs are told how Prof Kieran Byrne increased non-pay spending in his office from about €30,000 to €634,000 in eight years.
‘Litany of errors’ costing the State millions – PAC chair
The chair of the Public Accounts Committee has reacted angrily to the latest report of the Comptroller and Auditor General which was published yesterday.
# education - Thursday 27 September, 2012
Department overpaid teachers and school staff by €1.1 million
The Comptroller & Auditor General says the Department of Education was late in introducing pay cuts to new teachers in 2011.
# education - Thursday 20 September, 2012
Column: Young people do care about more than drinking, smoking & fighting
Today’s youth want to be involved in building Ireland’s future, writes Daithà de Buitléir.
# education - Wednesday 19 September, 2012
Justice Department insists no decision made on Catherine Nevin release
The Department of Justice has taken the unusual step of commenting on the case of convicted murderer Catherine Nevin insisting that there has been no decision on her proposed temporary release.
Poll: Should prisoners be released from jails to attend college?
As news emerges that a convicted murderer who was sentenced to life might get day release to attend classes, we ask: Do you agree with such a move?
Teachers’ unions criticise allowance decisions as cuts to salary
The Irish National Teachers’ Organisation says enforcing cuts originally introduced in the Budget means a third successive pay cut.
# education - Tuesday 18 September, 2012
Hogan supports councils linking college grants to Household Charge
The Minister for the Environment says delaying grant payments was not his idea, but is an understandable council policy.
Schools will need 3,000 extra teachers to cater for population – Quinn
Ruairà Quinn says at the current ratio, thousands more staff will be needed – but that’s if the current ratio remains in place.
Poll: Should grant holders have to prove payment of the household charge?
Do you think Clare County Council is right to demand students provide proof of payment of the household charge before they receive grants?
# education - Monday 17 September, 2012
Primary teachers warn against Budget cuts to disadvantaged schools
The Irish National Teachers’ Organisation says Ruairà Quinn must learn from the furore over last year’s cuts to Deis schools.
# education - Sunday 16 September, 2012
Teachers respond to Taoiseach’s 40-hour-week request
Teachers’ unions say they already work more than 40 hours a week – and more than their counterparts across the globe.
# education - Friday 14 September, 2012
Junior Cert results: Girls outperform boys in 20 out of 23 subjects
Only the stereotypically male strongholds of Maths and Metalwork see boys have a higher proportion of A grades than girls.
# education - Thursday 13 September, 2012
Cost of living rose by 0.6pc in August
The increase in the third-level student contribution and the rising price of petrol have the largest impact in the inflation rate.
Column: Times have changed and so should the Junior Cert
In the wake of the Junior Certificate results, Deputy Principal Noirin Walsh says that the examination is no longer in tune with the demand of today’s students.
# education - Wednesday 12 September, 2012
Irish pupils taught over twice as much religion as OECD average
A major new survey of developed nations shows the average Irish 7-year-old spends 10 per cent of their school time on religion.
Galway organises free ‘mega-party’ for Junior Cert students
Results are in but the city knows how to avoid the trouble that often goes with ‘Junior Cert night’.
Almost 59,000 teens to receive Junior Cert results today
There are thousands of nervous households this morning as students get graded on their first State exams.
# education - Thursday 6 September, 2012
CAO to give discounts for early online applicants… for 2013
Ninety-eight per cent of college applications were received online by CAO in 2012.
# education - Wednesday 5 September, 2012
Column: Everybody seems to be leaving, but what about those of us left?
In these days of mass emigration, writes Stefanie Preissner, should we feel a responsibility to the country that raised us?
Column: Why the Leaving Cert as we know it is redundant, by a headmaster
There are better assessment systems out there internationally, writes headmaster Arthur Godsil. So why aren’t we using them?
Thousands of post-primary pupils to start school year using e-books
E-books aim to bring cost savings, provide a more interactive learning system in the classroom and – of course – cut down on the weight of school bags.
# education - Tuesday 4 September, 2012
Open thread: What changes would you make to the education system?
As doc sets to explore how “one size fits all” education system is failing some young people, we want to know how you would improve school years…
# education - Sunday 2 September, 2012
Open thread: The things that remind us it’s back-to-school time
Wallpaper-wrapped schoolbooks, the theme tune to Glenroe, a shoe-fitting machine of torture: what were the triggers that let you know it was THAT time of year again?
# education - Saturday 1 September, 2012
Schoolbooks.ie admits errors as it manually reviews order backlog
The company has been making progress on the backlog of orders for school books but angry parents continue to wait for deliveries as their children return to school with no books.
# education - Friday 31 August, 2012
Column: ‘I will miss you’ – a mum writes to her son starting school
Lunches, lessons and other adventures – Deborah McCarthy gives some advice to her young son as he sets off.
# education - Thursday 30 August, 2012
The Evening Fix: Thursday
Things we learned, loved and shared today.
Round 2: over 3,000 applicants receive new offers for college
1,185 applicants have received their first offer from CAO.
# education - Wednesday 29 August, 2012
The first song played on another planet is…
(Mars, we’re sorry.) What would you have picked to be the first song from space?
# education - Tuesday 28 August, 2012
The Evening Fix: Tuesday
Things we learned, loved and shared today.
Irish citizens not recognised as ‘native’ English speakers in Thailand
Citizens from the Republic will have to take a test to prove they can speak English in order to teach the language in Thailand.
8 important lessons from Twitter on how to go back to school
The Daily Edge distils the wisdom of the crowd.
Children go back to school with no books as Schoolbooks.ie delays continue
The company has insisted that its backlog has now been cleared but one parent is still waiting for an order he placed in July.
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