# education - Tuesday 27 September, 2022
# School Books
# School Books
The initiative comes following years of lobbying by parents’ groups and charities.
# education - Monday 5 September, 2022
# Budget Supports
# Budget Supports
Minister for Energy Eamon Ryan will bring a memo to Wednesday’s Cabinet meeting setting out a series of options.
# education - Wednesday 24 August, 2022
# Special Education
# Special Education
15,759 special class places will be available this year, an increase of 2,312 from the previous school year.
# education - Friday 29 July, 2022
# Higher Education
# Higher Education
The new funding will allow people who are on existing scholarships to retain funding for additional courses, including graduate entry medicine.
# education - Monday 18 July, 2022
# Sex Education
# Sex Education
Emotional wellbeing, gender, and how to be safe online will be updated features of a new SPHE curriculum.
# education - Tuesday 5 July, 2022
# Cost Of Living
Poverty campaigners and parents’ groups frequently highlight the cost of going back to school every summer. There are growing fears that the cost-of-living crisis will place an additional burden on parents, Emer Moreau writes.
# education - Tuesday 28 June, 2022
# Education
# Education
The legislation was announced this afternoon by Ministers Norma Foley and Josepha Madigan.
# education - Friday 24 June, 2022
# Leaving Cert
# Leaving Cert
Leaving Cert results will be delayed again this year, coming out in early September rather than mid-August.
# Leaving Cert
# Leaving Cert
Leaving Cert results will be delayed again this year, coming out in early September rather than mid-August.
# education - Thursday 23 June, 2022
# Exams
# Exams
The Leaving Cert exam results will be issued on 2 September.
# education - Sunday 12 June, 2022
# Job Fairy
# Job Fairy
Applications are based in colleges in Cork, Dublin, Galway, Limerick, Monaghan, Waterford and Wicklow.
# education - Thursday 2 June, 2022
# Education
# Education
Funding will start to be rolled out next year to approved projects.
# Special Education Centres
# Special Education Centres
Speaking this morning, Higher Education Minister Simon Harris said the proposal “won’t fly” with the public.
# education - Tuesday 31 May, 2022
# Education
# Education
The proposal was met with backlash from parents and campaigners last week.
# education - Friday 27 May, 2022
# Special Education Centres
# Special Education Centres
The Higher Education minister said it’s “absolutely essential” that the number of special education classes in mainstream schools is increased.
# education - Thursday 26 May, 2022
# Education
# Education
Five centres are set to open in Dublin in September as an “interim” solution for children without a special class place in school.
# education - Monday 16 May, 2022
# Ukraine
# Ukraine
The Department will continue to publish figures on the enrolment of Ukrainian children each month.
# education - Wednesday 4 May, 2022
# Third Level Education
# Third Level Education
The Higher Education Minister said the Government is firmly against “unfair” student loans.
# education - Tuesday 3 May, 2022
# SUSI
# SUSI
The minister is bringing proposals to the Cabinet today.
# education - Saturday 30 April, 2022
# Fees
# Fees
Fees for graduate entry medicine (GEM) students are now set at €16,290 per year for Irish students.
# education - Wednesday 13 April, 2022
# education - Thursday 31 March, 2022
# Fees
# Fees
Labour’s education spokesperson Aodhán Ó Ríordáin says there is an urgent need for language support for Ukrainian children.
# education - Sunday 27 March, 2022
# Education
# Education
“If the girls’ schools remain closed even after one week, we will open them ourselves.”
# education - Monday 21 March, 2022
# Close The Gap
# Close The Gap
There is a significant gap in higher education between Travellers and the wider population, Minister Simon Harris says.
# education - Monday 14 March, 2022
# Education
# Education
Simon Harris said work is also underway to ensure Ukrainian people can access higher education in Ireland too.
# education - Tuesday 8 February, 2022
# School Admissions
# School Admissions
It is currently allowed that 25% of school places can be reserved for children and grandchildren of past pupils.
# education - Monday 7 February, 2022
# Education
# Education
The party says the bill is needed amid “the wider discussion about gender equality”.
# education - Tuesday 1 February, 2022
# Schools Admissions
# Schools Admissions
Labour’s Bill seeks to change the School Admissions Act.
# education - Saturday 29 January, 2022
# Old School
# Old School
A new strategy on eduation for sustainable development is due to be published by the end of March.
# education - Monday 24 January, 2022
# International Day Of Education
# International Day Of Education
Tanya Ward of the Children’s Rights Alliance argues that we need a more modern, dynamic approach to education in Ireland.
# education - Thursday 6 January, 2022
# Schools
# Schools
That’s according to the latest data from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre.
# School's Back
# School's Back
Student teachers are being drafted in to cover Covid absences.
# education - Tuesday 28 December, 2021
# Education Report
# Education Report
The number of teachers at primary and post-primary level went up from 61,942 in 2016 to 69,343 in 2020.
# education - Thursday 23 December, 2021
# Education
# Education
Groups opposed to Covid measures are urging people to contact principals with questions about mask mandates and vaccines.
# education - Wednesday 22 December, 2021
# Education
# Education
Public health officials and education representatives held a meeting today.
# education - Sunday 5 December, 2021
# Education
# Education
One child has been taken out of the school because of the lack of on-site clinicians with the relevant skills.
# education - Thursday 2 December, 2021
# Masks In School
# Masks In School
Mask users lose visual information, but there are lots of things you can do to help them, writes speech and language therapist Kate Beckett.
# education - Tuesday 23 November, 2021
# Substitute Teachers
# Substitute Teachers
Year-three and year-four student teachers will be deployed in schools where needed during this academic year, the Department of Education said.
# education - Monday 22 November, 2021
# Hot Lunch
# Hot Lunch
The schools had submitted an expression of interest in the programme in November 2020 but were not chosen at that time.
# education - Friday 19 November, 2021
# Essay Mills
Eight active ads for bespoke essays were identified by The Journal earlier this week. Ads also offered students to supply other forms of college coursework, Stephen McDermott writes. Government TD calls for Facebook to stop hosting ads for college 'essay mills'.
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