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Higher & Further Education News & Views
Retail ‘legend’ honoured at DIT ceremony
Quinn refuses to rule out blanket cull of postgraduate grants
Student registration fees to rise for four years in row
Future of VECs and SOLAS explained at Oireachtas Committee meeting
Middle-class schools tighten their grip on college places
MY EDUCATION WEEK: Gary Redmond President, USI
UL medical school chief to earn €240,000 per annum
Huge salary ‘out of our hands’ says UL
Cuts ‘will perpetuate two-tier school system’
Irish shy away from EU study scheme
What courses does the ‘Free Fees Scheme’ actually cover?
Report: Academic standards slipping
Students to stage ‘funeral’ protest
Flagship DIT site to proceed if planning granted
Students pay respects to education
Private backers for DIT campus
Disability Headlines
‘I know where I’m going, who I am – that makes me strong’
Guardian wins people’s choice award for excellence in disability journalism
Fertility clinics may offer embryo genetic screening
Rise in autism ‘may be linked to clever parents’ say scientists
Hearing tests for newborns at Waterford Regional Hospital
Stroke survivors honoured for courage
Special Olympics Ulster awarded almost £2.3m of government funding
Boy’s education ‘impeded by layers of bureaucracy’
Department of Justice withdraws 2012 funding for People with Disabilities Ireland (PwDI)
Is the changing role of women in our society behind the rise in autism in the past 30 years?
Cut closes disability organisation
Boy denied HSE care costing just €300 a week
General Education Stories
School principals call for overhaul of board structures
Galway literacy plan linked to ocean race
Court to hear case for tendering out school bus scheme
Will our fee-paying parents be squeezed until the pips squeak?
‘I was lectured on my sexuality’
Education: It’s a question of faith
Failure to grasp nettle on maths a national shame
No fees, full marks: secrets of school success revealed
Protestant school pupils lose bus appeal
How the Inter Cert’s domestic goddess is making a comeback
In My Opinion: Ministers, do your homework and extend free pre-school scheme
Mental Health in the Media
‘Cuts will fuel long-term social issues’
Rise in number of people seeking suicide counselling
Employment Features
Teaching union orders members to refuse intern scheme job offers
€200k start-up scheme at core of jobs plan for South-east
Experts call for privacy on personal genetic testing
Over 100 jobs set to be created in technology sector
Statutory sick pay could form part of social welfare system reform, says Burton
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