Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore and Education Minister Ruairi Quinn have said Mr Gilmore’s wife was treated the same as other senior education figures when given a job at the Department of Education.

The head of City of Cork Vocational Education Committee says he looks forward to continuing in the role after changes to a planned reshuffle of VEC chiefs nationally.

THE number of VECs is to be halved under radical streamlining measures announced by the Government yesterday.

A PASS grade in maths should no longer be compulsory for entry to third level, a major education conference has heard.