Social Innovation Fund Ireland has praised the 14 charitable groups awarded supports worth €9.5m under the Children and Youth Education Fund.

A Cork DEIS school has just two weeks to find a sponsor to help get them to Kentucky after winning the chance to represent Ireland on the world stage of an international robotics competition.

Before our next election, please google ‘education in Finland in a nutshell’.

As many as one in four children in some of the most disadvantaged primary schools in the country are homeless, with principals warning that the real figures could be even higher.

Approximately 15,000 pupils are to receive an increase in their school book grant through a new pilot scheme included in Budget 2020.

More than 15,000 pupils across more than 100 schools are to benefit from the increased investment.

Almost 11,000 vulnerable children are missing out on meals each day — because schools have refused to join a State-funded scheme.

The OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) tests measure how well 15-year old students are performing in reading, maths, and science.

The government is "in the middle of a review" of its Deis support scheme with a view to potentially extending it to include more schools.

Students, parents, and teachers believe it is time to change the senior cycle, new research suggests.

School principals have called for more admin support to tackle their increasing workload in what is being referred to in some cases as a “burnout issue".

An online tutoring service, aiming to “level the playing field” for families who cannot afford grinds, is to put €40,000 in financial backing towards scaling up its operations.

A pilot scheme to supply hot meals to primary schools has been heavily over-subscribed.

Two-thirds of children from DEIS schools want to go to college, but many lack confidence in their ability do so, according to new research.

More than 6,600 pupils in 36 primary schools will receive a hot meal at lunchtime next month.

36 primary schools have been selected for a hot meals pilot scheme.

The DEIS scheme, grant systems and other supports currently in place to assist disadvantaged students are inadequately addressing inequality, an education committee has found.

Safeguards must be put in place around the use of reduced timetables, which are a “daily reality for many vulnerable students” that disproportionately affect the most marginalized, an Oireachtas committee has heard.

Trade union Fórsa says staff employed by Ireland's School Completion Programme should be given the same employment status as other public servants.

“Intrusive questioning” of families requiring educational supports has become a headache for primary school teachers, the INTO congress has heard.

"They don't get a second chance. They don't get to be in primary school for the length of time this review group is taking."

Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO) president Joe Killeen has said his union will stand with its new members on securing pay equality, whether through “negotiation, court challenge or industrial action”.

Where once those fans smitten by the skylords of Irish basketball punched holes in the roof at Neptune Stadium, now the harsh winters oblige.

School dropout rates in disadvantaged areas is almost twice that of the national average, despite significant improvements.

A survey of hundreds of primary school children from traditionally disadvantaged areas has shown the vast majority are very resilient and in many cases are performing better than the national norm.

Moira Leydon of the Association of Secondary Teachers of Ireland outlines her organisation’s perspective on what can be done to improve our education system.

Children in disadvantaged communities are becoming overweight and obese as they get older, despite the problem levelling off in the wider childhood population.

A Cork City primary school is to take over the management of an adjacent creche that unexpectedly closed this week.

Hundreds of community creches in disadvantaged areas nationwide “have reached breaking point”, according to a childcare expert.

Education Minister Richard Bruton’s planned expansion of a scheme to tackle disadvantage in schools has been described as short on the resources needed to address the issues.

Allocation of Government funds could see Deis funding dropped

More schools will be resourced in Education Minister Richard Bruton’s plan to tackle educational disadvantage, but supports should be much better focused than in the past.

A significant number of extra schools will get more supports from September under the first major changes to Government efforts, in over a decade, to tackle educational disadvantage.

10% of primary pupils, and one in six secondary students, misses more than 20 school days each year

Disadvantaged families should get cheap theatre and music tickets to help their children reap the same benefits as others for their education, a top researcher has said.

Coding is to be introduced as a primary school subject from 2018 as part of a plan to make the Irish education system the best in Europe by 2026.

Students who complete a transition year are more likely to complete their Leaving Certificate exams, a study shows.

Chicago choir leader Josephine Lee was in Cork recently for Summer Sing, writes Ellie O’Byrne