Higher & Further Education News & Views
- A busy week in Aberdeen
- Eamon Delaney: Protesting students entitled to take on fat-cat academics
- Queens to open China college
- Postgraduates invited to apply for €10,000 bursary
Disability Headlines
- New quality mark for disability access
- Beneath its obnoxious title, ‘The Undateables’ has a heart
- Irish Paralympian and classical singer Ronan Tynan to be awarded Ellis Island Medal of Honor
- Giving migraine its place at work
Mental Health in the Media
Employment Features
General Education Stories
- Labour bids to cut €90m subsidy for fee-paying schools
- Bishops oppose axeing class religion rule
- Church preparing historic handover of primary schools
- ‘Boarding school can be tough’
- A day in the life of a boarding school
- Your leaving cert: 57 days to go
- Ruairi Quinn vows to continue with schools shake-up to reflect ‘modern Ireland’
- Fee-paying students two years ahead in literacy
- Primary education on the cusp of historic change in school management
- Cuts blamed as top students turn away from teaching career
- Parents will ‘hand over money’ to teachers in hope of better grades
Teacher Conferences
- David McWilliams: Teachers need to learn hard lessons about pay
- Parents urged to fight cuts in guidance roles
- Fiach Kelly: Out of the frying pan … Quinn mauled by two unions in a day
- Ruairi Quinn warns teachers that rural schools are facing cuts
- Teachers threaten to go on strike if Government cuts their pay again
- ‘Decline in donations makes job impossible’
- New teachers in short-term posts ‘earn just €13k a year’
- TD ‘fuelling’ belief teachers are highly paid in allowances
- Quinn to tackle anti-gay discrimination
- Treatment of starting teachers ‘a disgrace’
- Minister rules out cuts to teacher allowances
- Support for mother of children with autism
- New literacy and numeracy tests could lead to primary school ‘league tables’
- Audit to assess best use of school resources
- Delegates hope cool reception teaches Quinn a lesson
- ASTI threat to leave Croke Park deal if allowances are cut
- Delegates vote for legal challenge to starting pay
- Audit of school facilities and staffing announced
- Quinn wants to keep some extra payments
- Quinn says he wants to remain in education
- Calls for full training to ensure pupil integration
- Survey finds schools will have lost five middle management teaching posts
- Career guidance ‘integral part of school’
- Plan for teacher-assessed Junior Cert exams opposed
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