Organisation: Department of Education

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Fianna Fail Ard Fheis 2024
Minister launches set of  procedures to tackle bullying in schools
A central element of the plans is to create a ‘tell all’ culture in schools so that students experiencing bullying will feel safe in reporting what they are going through

Wed, 19 Jun, 2024

McEntee seeks to bring Ireland in line with EU through new immigration laws
McEntee seeks to bring Ireland in line with EU through new immigration laws
The minister for justice will also ask Cabinet approval to revoke certificates of citizenship in very limited circumstances

Tue, 18 Jun, 2024

Foley denies cut in schools' summer programme funding
Foley denies cut in schools' summer programme funding
The minister for education said that the capitation funding per pupil in a special school remains the same, but the figure per pupil in a mainstream school returned to the 2022 allocation

Wed, 12 Jun, 2024

Elementary school children bored in classroom
Irish Examiner view: Schools should not have to deal with the eTender system
The free schoolbooks scheme puts the responsibility on schools to organise their purchase — so they have to abide by onerous EU procurement and tendering rules

Mon, 10 Jun, 2024

'Urgent' appeal for Leaving Cert and Junior Cert students with dyslexia to get extra exam time
'Urgent' appeal for Leaving Cert and Junior Cert students with dyslexia to get extra exam time
Dyslexia Association of Ireland points out dyslexic university students get extra time, but Leaving and Junior Cert students are at an unfair disadvantage

Mon, 03 Jun, 2024

Exam cheating rises
Letters to the Editor: No extra exam time for neurodiverse students
A reader says education authorities seem to believe creating equal learning experiences for students gives neurodiverse learners an unfair advantage

Tue, 28 May, 2024

An Bórd Pleanála blames delay in ruling on Cork City school on 'significant backlog of cases'
An Bórd Pleanála blames delay in ruling on Cork City school on 'significant backlog of cases'
The Department of Education applied to Cork City Council in May 2022 for planning permission for a 600-pupil secondary school at Ardarrig, Douglas

Thu, 02 May, 2024

School stock
Principal hits out at Department for not trusting schools on their pupils' special education needs
An Educate Together National School principal in Carrigaline, Co Cork, says hours are likely to be cut for her pupils under the new Special Education Teaching allocation model

Tue, 09 Apr, 2024

'Ground breaking' study to ensure teachers have best start to career
'Ground breaking' study to ensure teachers have best start to career
The Government has begun a "ground breaking" research study on teaching aimed at ensuring that prospective educators have "the best possible start to their careers".

Tue, 02 Apr, 2024

School attendance
Primary school curriculum set for major overhaul
The proposed updates will see the fundamentals of education updated in Ireland for the first time since 1999 and will be open to consultation until June 7

Wed, 06 Mar, 2024

The Irish language needs to be kept in our schools for its survival
The Irish language needs to be kept in our schools for its survival
Seachtain na Gaeilge is an opportunity to look anew at attitudes to the Irish language and re-embrace a fundamental part of our culture

Wed, 28 Feb, 2024

Norma Foley comments
Norma Foley to update Cabinet on school transport scheme
Thousands more children will have access to the service under the new rules which will reduce the limit students have to live from school to qualify for a bus place

Tue, 27 Feb, 2024

Chidren's health report
'No definite data' on children attending special schools
Special school principals want 'seat at the table' with Education Department to address issues such as lack of therapists and multi-disciplinary teams.

Fri, 23 Feb, 2024

Thousands more children to get school bus tickets in major overhaul of scheme — but cost may rise
Thousands more children to get school bus tickets in major overhaul of scheme — but cost may rise
School transport overhaul will include reducing the distance threshold from 3.2km to 2km, and scrapping the stipulation that children must be attending the nearest school to qualify for the scheme

Sat, 17 Feb, 2024

Majority of Ukrainian children receiving 'good or very good' education in Ireland
Majority of Ukrainian children receiving 'good or very good' education in Ireland
In more than 70% of the schools inspected, all young people from Ukraine in third year and sixth year intended to sit the Junior Cycle and Leaving Certificate examinations

Thu, 15 Feb, 2024

Department's plans to split Cork school condemned by principal
Department's plans to split Cork school condemned by principal
The plan could see children separated from their siblings as well as the administrative and support hubs of their school community

Tue, 06 Feb, 2024

Sarah Harte: Entitled parents need to stop badgering teachers out of hours
S Sarah Harte: Entitled parents need to stop badgering teachers out of hours
How does it feel to be a teacher right now? Taking a wild guess, there’s some who would answer: Overburdened, underpaid, and underappreciated

Wed, 31 Jan, 2024

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Irish Examiner view: Despite the cashless trend, we have a right to use notes and coins
It is surely a fundamental principle that people should be able to pay cash if they choose

Thu, 25 Jan, 2024

Department of Education spent almost €3m posting wage slips last year
Department of Education spent almost €3m posting wage slips last year
Figures announced despite saying in 2021 that postage costs must be addressed 'as a matter of urgency'

Mon, 22 Jan, 2024

‘Footfall just died’: Free book scheme threatens dark days for schoolbook shops
‘Footfall just died’: Free book scheme threatens dark days for schoolbook shops
Schoolbook sellers are finding themselves majorly down on profits and worried about the future with the planned expansion of the free schoolbooks scheme to junior cycle

Sat, 06 Jan, 2024

Department to meet schools after teacher-sharing scheme results in just one full-time post
Department to meet schools after teacher-sharing scheme results in just one full-time post
National Association for Principals and Deputy Principals says the scheme 'hasn’t had the uptake that we expected'

Wed, 03 Jan, 2024

Elaine Loughlin: Trying to dig deep with Foley is much like hitting rock
S Elaine Loughlin: Trying to dig deep with Foley is much like hitting rock
Education Minister Norma Foley remains somewhat of an unknown entity to the wider public, who have little sense of the person behind the ministry

Sun, 17 Dec, 2023

Learner Drivers
Students to pay less for driving test as part of road safety course
Secondary school pupils to receive marks towards driver theory exam as part of course to be rolled out from next September 

Sat, 16 Dec, 2023

Four new special schools to be established next year
Four new special schools to be established next year
The schools are being sanctioned as early as possible as part of advanced planning to meet the needs of students with special educational needs due to start school next September

Wed, 06 Dec, 2023

Letters to the Editor: There must be a better way to provide school bus tickets
Letters to the Editor: There must be a better way to provide school bus tickets
A parent whose child was refused a ticket this year proposes reforms of Ireland's school bus scheme

Tue, 21 Nov, 2023

female student home schooling because of a ban on going out
880 children without a school place forced to learn at home
A maximum of nine hours of home tuition per week is provided to children for 12 weeks

Wed, 01 Nov, 2023

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Dept of Transport in talks with Dept of Education over running of school bus scheme
However, it is understood that there is pushback from Norma Foley’s department on the proposed transfer of control to the Department of Transport

Fri, 27 Oct, 2023

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Department of Education must 'move quickly' with guidance on use of AI
The State Exams Commission says that any material used in exams that has been generated by AI systems without quoting it as the work of an AI system will be considered plagiarism

Tue, 17 Oct, 2023

Cannabis research
Third-level survey shows 1 in 6 first years are current drug users
Students take drugs "for fun" - something that might not be "palatable", UCC student services chief says

Sat, 30 Sep, 2023

Plan needed to cater for demand for 'oversubscribed' Educate Together schools
Plan needed to cater for demand for 'oversubscribed' Educate Together schools
Despite the non-denominational school patron opening more than 50 new schools in the past 10 years, large pockets of the country do not have access to schools outside a religious ethos

Sat, 30 Sep, 2023

Elaine Loughlin: Martin adds his two-cents to teacher training debate
Elaine Loughlin: Martin adds his two-cents to teacher training debate
In stepping into the teacher-training fray, Martin has shown the difference between political clout and ministerial inexperience

Sat, 30 Sep, 2023

Leaving certificate exams
Use of AI in education could bolster teacher-based assessments for exams 
Chief executive of Education and Training Boards Ireland (ETBI) Paddy Lavelle was speaking on AI as the group celebrated its annual conference

Thu, 28 Sep, 2023

New €6m campaign to promote school attendance amid surge in unexplained absences
New €6m campaign to promote school attendance amid surge in unexplained absences
Unexplained school absences have quadrupled in three years

Tue, 26 Sep, 2023

Brexit
Tánaiste blasts HSE, saying slow referrals 'put children at risk'
Micheál Martin also defends Disabilities Minister Anne Rabbitte who walked out of a meeting with HSE chiefs last week

Mon, 18 Sep, 2023

Calls for schools to be able to recruit on a full-time basis to address shortfall
Calls for schools to be able to recruit on a full-time basis to address shortfall
According to the TUI, a shortage of teachers in second-level schools is narrowing the range of subject options available to students

Wed, 23 Aug, 2023

Teacher's pay
It is an understatement to say teacher supply crisis requires urgent attention
In some cases, students have found courses they had commenced in junior and senior cycle cancelled midstream

Mon, 21 Aug, 2023

Cork mum can't get respite care for her teenager despite fearing his violent outbursts 
Cork mum can't get respite care for her teenager despite fearing his violent outbursts 
'We are hiding the knives. He wants to kill me. He wants to choke me. He is obsessed with death, violence, execution...'

Mon, 14 Aug, 2023

A crucifix on a book against the background of a chalkboard
Catholic primary schools record 'steady decrease' in enrolments
Since 2012, multi-denominational enrolments have continued to rise steadily

Mon, 17 Jul, 2023

Number of 'unexplained' missed school days quadrupled in just three years
Number of 'unexplained' missed school days quadrupled in just three years
Tusla reports that Irish children missed a total of 24.7m school days from September 2019 to summer 2022, with a particularly sharp rise in unexplained absences  

Sat, 08 Jul, 2023

Researchers lament 'Impersonal' Primary education
Children lost more than school hours during covid — and the disadvantaged lost the most
On top of lockdowns and missed days due to illness, Tusla reports a surge in unexplained absences, and the data shows that disadvantaged children are the hardest hit

Sat, 08 Jul, 2023

Close up of a dentist operating on a patience
Less than half of eligible children seen on schedule under State's school dental plan
The Irish Dental Association (IDA) has warned there are not enough dentists to ensure schoolchildren are screened when required, which has led to a severe decline in dental health in many cases

Wed, 05 Jul, 2023

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School transport costs almost double in just seven years
The Department of Education said the rise in cost is due to "increased demand, the fee waiver established as part of the Government’s overall cost-of-living support measures, and increased contractor and fuel costs which have been impacted by the war in Ukraine"

Wed, 05 Jul, 2023

Young breakdown woman sitting on the peace of cartoon in the dark cellar, victim of violence, kidnapping or captive, view throug
Less than a third of fund for school sex abuse victims paid out
The Government’s revised ex gratia scheme, which has rejected over a quarter of applications, is due to close on July 20.

Sun, 02 Jul, 2023

State institution survivors disappointed with new health and education measures
State institution survivors disappointed with new health and education measures
Education Minister Norma Foley said legislation would be required for some of the new measures

Tue, 27 Jun, 2023

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