Colleges that make unauthorised payments to staff or make misleading or false financial reports could be hit with financial penalties from the end of this year, the Government has decided.

Radical reforms of how third-level colleges share public investment will have little effect unless the Government decides soon how to deal with a funding crisis in the sector, the experts who designed the reforms have warned.

Chances to train as apprentices in jobs ranging from animation to supply chain management are set to open from early 2019.

Education Minister Richard Bruton has insisted that most teaching vacancies are being filled as he sought TDs’ approval for the extra €70m cost of under-estimated teacher retirements.

Education Minister Richard Bruton expects plans being launched today to make Ireland’s teaching of science and technology the best in Europe.

Education Minister Richard Bruton’s officials will meet the Christian Brothers order next week to discuss a disputed land deal to help meet their liability for child abuse redress costs.

Plans to further restrict the use of religion as grounds to exclude pupils could be introduced sooner than previously expected, Education Minister Richard Bruton hinted.

Education Minister Richard Bruton will be unable, in next week’s budget, to deliver any long-term outline of a third-level funding model.

The Government has launched a second investigation into serious fire safety concerns in Celtic Tiger-era schools amid growing fears that the scale of the crisis has been deliberately “suppressed”.

Education Minister Richard Bruton has urged more colleges to take pressure out of the points system by reducing the number of courses from which to choose for students.

It’s Tuesday night and dotted around the bar is an EU commissioner, a former education minister, the secretary general of a government department as well as a scattering of local and national politicians.

The Education Minister says he hopes to have cooperation from the ASTI in the event of a strike, so that schools can stay open.

The Education Minister has launched a plan to attract more international students to Ireland.

The Education Minister says 'bad politics' can't be allowed to creep in to the Brexit negotiations.

The Education Minister Richard Bruton has announced €10m worth of funding for Institutes of Technology.

Education Minister Jan O'Sullivan is to repeal a 50-year-old regulation which gives religion in primary schools a privileged status.

The Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan has admitted the current Government will not deal with the issue of equal access to schools.

The executive of the ASTI will meet tomorrow to decide its next step after rejecting the latest junior cycle proposals

The Education Minister has said that she has reached agreement with teachers unions on Junior Cert reforms.

The Education Minister Jan O'Sullivan is welcoming the breakthrough in negotiations on junior cycle reform.

Education Minister Jan O'Sullivan has said that as long as teaching unions maintain a complete veto on Junior Cert reform proposals, everyone loses.

The Education Minister Jan O'Sullivan has confirmed that she will continue with plans to reform the Junior Cert.

Education Minister Jan O'Sullivan has criticised anti-water charge protestors, after she became the latest Minister targeted by a demonstration.