Louise Walsh People are relocating from all around Europe to attend a school in Sligo where students have complete independence to decide their own education.

Parents at a non-denominational school in Dublin have staged a protest over the use of a Catholic agency to deliver sex education classes to pupils.

Three out of four primary teachers agree that some primary school pupils felt extremely anxious about standardised tests.

The patronage of 12 new primary schools which are set to open this year have been announced.

Two schools which have been closed for the past fortnight due to serious concerns over their structural safety will not reopen until Thursday amid fears they still pose a risk to more than 1,200 children.

A planning application has been lodged to provide a permanent home for a second-level school serving Cork’s southern suburbs.

The school now has 460 pupils in a modern school building which was completed and opened in September 2017.

The schools are based in the Balmayne/Clongriffin area on Dublin, Galway city and Oranmore, Laytown and Drogheda in Co. Louth and Wicklow.

Education and training boards have rejected claims of a conflict in their involvement with surveys of parents in areas where they may seek to become new school patrons.

Parents are about to be surveyed about demand for alternatives to faith-specific primary schools but the local Catholic bishop will have final say on which other patron a building can transfer to.

More bridges may be built between Travellers and the rest of society as more than 20 Traveller and Roma students have completed a university course in community work.

Parents in dozens of areas where new schools will open in the next four years will have to choose patrons online to run them because of past problems with the selection process.

Fianna Fáil has given a cautious welcome to a new agreement for five 'Educate Together' schools in Tramore, Trim, New Ross, Tuam and Castlebar.

Five Educate Together primary schools have secured permission to enrol more pupils after they were initially told to restrict enrolments.

Parents of children of the first school to be divested are concerned about its future.

Back in much darker days, when education was a rarity, we were blessed with visionaries who established schools for the downtrodden. Catherine McAuley, Ignatius Rice, and Mary Aikenhead surmounted many obstacles but I doubt if they ever considered putting restrictions on their eager school entrants.

The approach of the Catholic Church to its responsibilities and aspirations can be baffling, writes Michael Clifford.

Children’s progress in maths at the age of nine has a major influence through to Junior Certificate preparations and suggests a need to overhaul how it is taught at primary level, a leading education researcher says.

Parents from the Ballinteer Educate Together school in Dublin say they have invited Minister Richard Bruton to visit their "temporary" building - but he has not responded to them.

Pressure group Education Equality has expressed alarm at reports that a Co Kerry school is to reopen in September under the patronage of the local Education and Training Board.

Children from rising numbers of non-religious families should have their upbringing better reflected in primary schools that use new teaching resources, says multi-denominational body Educate Together.

Primary schools are being encouraged to include Humanism lessons in the classroom.

Delays in deciding who will open four new primary schools have been linked to prospective patrons poorly representing valid interest levels among parents.

School patron body Educate Together has today responded to comments made by a representative of the Iona Institute on last night's Claire Byrne Live show on RTÉ.

Education Minister Richard Bruton’s plans to speed up the divestment of religious primary schools to new patrons face strong challenge as a multi-denominational schools group claims they prioritise the Catholic Church’s wishes over those of parents.

Progress has been made on the development of the Rochestown Educate Together National School in Rochestown, Co Cork.

Boys are nearly 10 times more likely than girls to cycle to school, a national survey suggests.

Meetings to end disruption in secondary schools have been continuing over the past week between the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) and Department of Education.

Up to 50 parents have been queuing overnight to get their child a place at a new Educate Together school in Dublin.

Educate Together's first secondary school in Cork opened its doors to 45 First Year students on the campus of Nagle Community School, which it is sharing on a temporary basis.

The country's newest Educate Together Secondary School opens its doors in South County Dublin today with just 28 pupils.

Nine new Educate Together schools will open next week.

Educate Together has been awarded a €284,000 EU grant to encourage the development of ethical education.

Organisations working for religious freedom in State-funded schools have questioned Education Minister Richard Bruton’s preference for a model of primary school that keeps religion lessons in the classroom.

A move towards more State-controlled primary schools, as part of Government plans for the creation of 20 new non-religious schools a year, has been welcomed by Educate Together.

Education groups are being invited to respond to issues around schools and skills development in the Programme for Government.

A campaign to establish an Educate Together secondary school in Cork has moved a step closer with an announcement from the group that a temporary site for a school may be located at a city-suburb property.

Educate Together has today welcomed Minister Jan O’Sullivan’s pledge to “reinvigorate” the process of divesting school patronage.

Almost two thirds of children are now starting junior infants at, or almost at, the age of five, as more parents wait longer to send their children to school, official figures reveal.

An Educate Together spokesperson has said they hope issues which have delayed the planned opening of a new school in Mayo next week will be resolved by next September.

Ten families in Mayo are searching for a new primary school for their children after the opening of an Educate Together school was delayed by a year.

An Educate Together primary school has been forced to delay opening by a year, just a week before kids were due to start there.

Department of Education rules could lead to "double discrimination" for some schoolchildren, it was claimed today.