A school principal has led tributes to one of his young pupils who died in a tragic accident at his family’s farm in West Cork.

Two former Leaving Cert students with Dyslexia have won a discrimination case they took against the Department of Education.

An internal report into allegations of fraud at the Department of Education's offices in Athlone has been completed.

The Department of Education has confirmed that Gardaí are investigating allegations of fraud at its offices in Athlone, Co Westmeath.

STATE funding for primary school buildings varies widely, with Offaly pupils emerging as the best-funded in the country, and Louth students the worst.

Opposition parties are calling for responsibility for the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse to be taken away from the Department of Education.

A rights commissioner has found the Department of Education discriminated against a part-time teacher.

The Department of Education and Science has today revealed that it cannot afford to hire any more psychologists this year.

Representatives of three abuse victims’ organisations met officials from the Dept of Education today for talks on plans for the further proceedings at a commission on inquiry into the whole issue.

A man who was sexually abused as a child by a care worker when he visited a friend in a Kilkenny orphanage in the 1970s, was today awarded €75,000 by the High Court.

The Department of Education has begun a major recruitment drive ahead of the ASTI’s next round of industrial action.

The Union of Students in Ireland is holding a protest outside the Dept of Education in Dublin today over the accommodation crisis facing students returning to university in a few weeks' time.

The ASTI has said it will not be going on strike for the remainder of this year's school term if its 17,000 members vote as recommended to reject the Labour Court pay package.

Education Minister Dr Michael Woods has accused the ASTI of misleading people in the row over deductions from pay packets.