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Attitudes towards disabled more negative in past five years – report
Ageing with dignity and disability
Social class and gender ‘have huge effect on the way pupils are taught’
Learning to cope with the job market
Higher & Further Education News & Views
Quinn to approve technology university in southeast
STEMs are vital if we want to grow
UCC sues ESB for €18m over damage from opening dams after heavy rains
Over 80% of UL graduates employed or in further studies, figures show
Top academics snub Quinn pay cut plea
Only college boss who agreed to pay cut lost just €1,500
NUIG lifts curtain on new degree in drama
Student seeks injunctions against newspapers in Facebook case
Disability Headlines
I’m 45 and have young onset Parkinson’s
Pupils in a class of their own
Teenager awarded €5.25m for injuries suffered during birth
Boy, 11, awarded €1 million after leg amputated
Plan for single welfare payment due in March
Disability Etiquette: Think Ability, Not Disability
General Education Stories
Parents camp out to secure school places
Hundreds to meet over risk to West Cork schools
‘Sacrificial lambs’ of education saved by volte-face
Time to get real for the Leaving
Up to 700 attend meeting over school fears
Closure of small schools is ‘death by a thousand cuts’ for communities
Exempting teachers from cuts ruled out
Schools fear parents may sue over cuts
Traditional ways of teaching still prevail, says study
Young women are the best educators
Maths teaching days vary by 18 days a year, study finds
Quality of teaching – Consistency is important
Deis protesters picket Department of Education
Mental Health in the Media
Festival targets stigma of mental ill-health
Lynch to hear plea over hospital closure
Thirty suicides already this year from all walks of life
Relief to fore as athlete admits his race is run
Most suicides linked to drink problems
Suicide study – 190 deaths is too many
Gambling a ‘major factor’ in suicide
Experts say mental hospital must close
Employment Features
New website aims to have 5,000 job pledges by June
