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# school - Friday 17 May, 2013
Most LGBT Europeans still afraid and threatened: report
Transgender people suffered particularly badly, with 28 per cent saying they had been attacked of threatened because of their sexuality.
# school - Saturday 11 May, 2013
8 reasons why P.E was the only reason to get out of bed for school
Including piano goal celebrations, Spiderman undies in the public swimming pool and vomit-inducing rope climbs.
# school - Friday 3 May, 2013
Smoke bomb goes off at Cork school
About 30 people were treated for smoke inhalation but nobody was seriously injured.
# school - Wednesday 24 April, 2013
Column: What Irish companies need to know about cyberbullies in the workplace
With new media comes new risks, writes Julie O’Neill who says many employers might not know they could be liable for statements made by their employees outside of working hours.
The 7 most annoying things your teacher ever said
“They won’t accept that handwriting next year.”
# school - 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.
# school - Sunday 21 April, 2013
13 scary things that always happened in school
School was actually terrifying.
# school - Saturday 20 April, 2013
Poll: Should school summer holidays be shortened?
The UK’s Education Secretary is calling for longer term times – should that be considered in Ireland too?
# school - 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.
# school - Sunday 7 April, 2013
How parents are trying to raise €2 million on the internet to build a school in Clare
The parents at the Mol an Óige national school in Clare were hoping to get the money from the Department of Education – but instead they’ve turned to the internet.
# school - 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.
# school - Wednesday 3 April, 2013
PSNI investigate report of suspicious object near school
The report said that the object was located in the vicinity of a primary school in Donagh village, Lisnaskea.
# school - Tuesday 2 April, 2013
School blaze in Myanmar kills 13 students
Religious tensions are running high in the country, despite police assurances that the blaze was accidental.
# school - Saturday 23 March, 2013
Single mother’s teenage son gets letter demanding property tax payment
The mother-of-one has owned her home for over two decades but it was her son, who worked part-time last summer, who received the local property tax letter this week.
# school - Thursday 21 March, 2013
The Evening Fix… now with added imaginary friends
The things we learned, loved and shared today…
6 poets to stir up some secondary school memories
Today is World Poetry Day, and it’s Leaving Cert Paper 2 all over again.
# school - Tuesday 19 March, 2013
Unstable chemical made safe in Cork school
There were no pupils present as classes had finished for the day.
Poll: Should Irish be a compulsory subject in secondary schools?
Concerns have been raised over how Irish is taught with many managing just a cúpla focal when they leave school.
# school - Friday 15 March, 2013
‘Unstable chemical’ made safe at Tipperary school
The chemical, known as ‘Brady’s Agent’ can be found in school laboratories all over the country but can become unstable over time.
# school - Monday 11 March, 2013
VIDEO: Will Smith raps the Fresh Prince theme… to some schoolgirls
Did you see this? They go CRAZY.
# school - Thursday 7 March, 2013
Bullied: Your stories of bullying and its lasting effects
We asked and you told us. Here are your stories about how the pain of childhood bullying can live on.
# school - Tuesday 5 March, 2013
Bullied: Your stories of bullying in school
We asked and you told us. Here are your stories about bullying in school.
# school - Monday 4 March, 2013
Column: How parents can help a child who is being bullied
Parents can feel helpless when their child is the victim of bullying – but there are some practical steps they can take to address the problem constructively, writes Pat Forde.
# school - Friday 1 March, 2013
The leave-it-out lady teaches Irish too
Ah, Fág Amach é.
# school - Wednesday 20 February, 2013
Column: It’s easy for ministers on high salaries to ignore the importance of child benefit
An across-the-board cut to child benefit was not a good move – but ministers on big salaries are removed from the realities of the man on the street, Nessa Toale writes.
# school - Friday 15 February, 2013
11-year-old boy takes own life on train tracks in Japan
It is thought the boy’s suicide was in protest at plans to close his school.
# school - Sunday 10 February, 2013
Column: Why I should be allowed to vote at 17
I will inherit the actions of the electorate’s decisions for decades to come, so why shouldn’t I be able to influence government policy too, asks Adam Houlihan.
# school - Tuesday 5 February, 2013
3 top questions schoolchildren asked Dublin’s Lord Mayor
“What colour are your pyjamas, Lord Mayor?”
# school - Monday 4 February, 2013
Viable homemade explosive found on grounds of Dublin school
The school in Crumlin was evacuated as an Army bomb disposal investigated the Improvised Explosive Device.
# school - Thursday 31 January, 2013
Number of primary school children with depression rises
The survey found that bullying leads to a number of significant mental health challenges in primary schools.
# school - 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.
# school - 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.
# school - Tuesday 22 January, 2013
8 funny wrong answers kids have given on tests
What is a nitrate? You might be surprised…
# school - Sunday 20 January, 2013
Photos: Hundreds of kids take part in ‘group wedding’
Don’t worry, it wasn’t legally binding – a playschool in China did it to encourage the kids to be more responsible and confident.
# school - Monday 14 January, 2013
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.
# school - Thursday 3 January, 2013
Sandy Hook massacre survivors back to class today
The children will not return to Sandy Hook, but will instead attend a disused school in a nearby town.
# school - Monday 31 December, 2012
Column: 7 things to know about teenage drinking (and how to deal with it)
Are your teens heading to a New Year’s Eve party? Sheila O’Malley has some tips on how to navigate the issue of teenage drinking.
# school - Monday 24 December, 2012
In pics: Inside an abandoned school for young ladies
The Bennett College, built in 1890 in Millbrook, New York, is set to be demolished.
Chevron Training successfully exits examinership
The company’s 15 jobs have now been saved as it has secured two new contracts for 2013.
# school - 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.
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