# 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'.
# education - Thursday 11 November, 2021
# Opinion
# Opinion
The Fianna Fáil TD and former teacher went back to the classroom to help after a shortage of substitute teachers.
# Education
# Education
Noteworthy’s Maria Delaney and social care worker Anne Marie Quilligan tell Susan Daly about the conditions faced by Traveller children in the country’s education system.
# Grangegorman
# Grangegorman
Culinary Arts students had complained that it was unsanitary for them to change in corridors or public toilets for classes in kitchens.
# education - Thursday 28 October, 2021
Galway-Mayo, Sligo and Letterkenny institutes of technology are to combine to become a Technical University.
# education - Thursday 21 October, 2021
# Education
# Education
Gavin Molloy of Olus Education says the schools’ curriculum needs to keep up to prepare for the careers of tomorrow.
# education - Sunday 17 October, 2021
# Tough Start
Noteworthy and The Journal can reveal that many Traveller children are routinely put on 'reduced hours' at school - with at least one student on just 40 minutes a day Reporters Maria Delaney and Michelle Hennessy work with Traveller focus groups to expose this issue Over 60 children on one halting site in Munster received no digital supports during Covid lockdowns
# education - Tuesday 12 October, 2021
# Education
# Education
Primary school class sizes are set to be reduced.
# education - Tuesday 21 September, 2021
# Back To School
# Back To School
Some opposition politicians were critical of what they labelled “confusing” guidance for when pupils are designated as close contacts.
# No Support
# No Support
Young Travellers found remote schoolwork extra challenging due to lack of access to digital and other resources during the pandemic.
# education - Thursday 9 September, 2021
# Children
# Children
There were 1,000 cases per week on average during school term.
# education - Wednesday 8 September, 2021
# Positive Cases
# Positive Cases
More than 100 Department of Education staff have been working with public health teams, Norma Foley said.
# education - Monday 23 August, 2021
# Back To School
# Back To School
More than 46,000 Covid-19 cases have been recorded in children and teenagers up to July.
# education - Monday 16 August, 2021
# Explainer
# Explainer
The last time the Taliban had control over the country, women and girls were mostly denied education or employment.
# education - Friday 13 August, 2021
# Covid-19
# Covid-19
Pregnant people cannot register for a Covid-19 vaccine prior to 14 weeks’ gestation.
# education - Tuesday 3 August, 2021
# Back On Campus
# Back On Campus
Colleges will implement sanitation and ventilation measures, as well as occupancy limits in certain locations.
# education - Wednesday 28 July, 2021
# High Court
# High Court
It is claimed that the lack of supports may have left him years behind his potential.
# Back To School
# Back To School
63% were concerned about their children’s emotional development and 51% were concerned about social skills.
