Minister for Education Norma Foley highlights increase of more than 20% in funding for the Déis programme that will allow it to expand into more schools

Coláiste na Toirbhirte in Bandon has been an all-female school since its foundation by the Presentation Sisters in 1829

Call to put interim measures in place while transport packages are sorted to ensure no child has to miss school unnecessarily

The National Development Plan outlines how capital funding of more than €4.4bn will be spent on school infrastructure, including on modernising buildings and retrofitting programmes.

More than 80% of students claim the Leaving Cert in its traditional form was not the best way to assess their educational achievement

The chef is submitting a petition to Minister for Education Norma Foley for practical cooking classes for every child

The St Patrick’s Mental Health Services CEO has said the impact that children had experienced during the pandemic as a result of school closures and isolation was 'really concerning'

'The future of our schools is a bright one and that is because of the work of our school communities and the priority placed on education by both wider society and Government under the most trying of circumstances,' writes Education Minister Norma Foley

Calum Geary has fallen behind his twin brother Donnacha simply because the State will not provide an Irish Sign Language interpreter to help him in the classroom

Decision was made by people who have no idea what goes on in a primary school classroom, says Cork principal

10,000 children currently isolating at home because they were close contacts can return to school on Monday without having Covid test

This evening, the country reported another 1,355 confirmed cases of Covid-19, with 286 patients in hospitals with the disease, down 14 from yesterday.

Professor Philip Nolan says risk associated with allowing an asymptomatic in-school contact to stay in the classroom was 'low compared with the impact of excluding that child from school'

The news come as there were 90 outbreaks of Covid-19 recorded in schools last week, more than double the number recorded the week prior

The Education Minister has said that all schools will have a full supply carbon dioxide monitors by early October.

The State's health watchdog has also said that the minimum age for the wearing of facemasks should not be reduced

An infectious disease specialist expressed fears that most children under the age of 12 in Ireland will contract Covid-19 by early next year while other experts claim schools are safe environments

90.2% of adults over the age of 18 are now fully vaccinated, according to the head of Ireland's vaccine taskforce

Children aged under 14 now make up a “high percentage” of testing referrals

Education professionals raised concerns about the isolation and workload students handled during the pandemic

Department of Education to increase staffing on schools' Covid helpline and ramp up its messaging around Covid symptoms for parents following meeting with teaching unions

The Irish Primary Principal’s Network former president Damien White said he spent about three hours on Monday evening contacting parents after a case was identified in his school

Teaching unions have warned of the potential need for another circuit break lockdown in Northern Ireland if more is not done to stop Covid-19 spreading in schools.

The authors of the study of DEIS schools concluded that a 'standard' approach was not going to work in every school

It is understood the Department of Education is still pursuing a permanent site for the school which has the Catholic Le Chéile Schools Trust as its patron

Parents are being asked to fork out up to €42m to cover funding shortfalls, a situation Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire says is "unacceptable"

All countries are encouraged to keep schools open and all schools urged to put in place measures to minimise the risk of Covid-19 and the spread of variants

The School Inspectorate will also be looking at the extent to which schools are engaging with the requirements of the anti-bullying procedures. 

Recommendations include Department of Education's bullying plan and related anti-bullying procedures to be 'urgently audited and updated', a national database of incidents and provision of emotional counselling and therapeutic supports in schools

The disturbing, medically inaccurate and highly controversial film, produced by the Life Network in Texas, reportedly upset some of the teenage girls to the point of tears.

The findings also show the vast majority of schools remain under religious patronage, despite the introduction of Government targets to improve parental choice on schools

All schools should receive their full allocation of the monitors by mid-September.

The children have each been offered a place in a new special school due to open in the existing Gaelscoil building in Carrigaline in September

Claims for compensation for teachers returning from secondment, which the Department of Education estimated could cost up to €1.5m a year, have been rejected by an independent arbitration body

Between 2009 and 2014, less than 1% of new primary school teacher registrations were of teachers with qualifications from outside Ireland or the UK

Schools will receive portable CO2 monitors to help them pinpoint areas or rooms that may not be adequately ventilated

Further periods of school closures are not expected, according to the Department of Education

Education minister says  the last year has shown schools are safe environments for children and staff

NUI Galway's Irish Centre for Human Rights has published secondary school teaching materials on Ireland’s institutional abuses, which have been created with survivors and school teachers, pupils, activists and artists

Legal expert says the revised ex gratia scheme will still exclude many victims

Education Minister Norma Foley is adamant that there will be no return to online learning or homeschooling

If the public health advice is to avoid bringing children for indoor dining, what about schools?

The children are relying on home tuition as no school places are available, new data shows

Strawberry Hill National School will open in September, with the amalgamation of Sunday’s Well Boys National School and Sunday’s Well Girls