Junior Education Minister Sean Haughey will highlight today the vandalism by pupils of bus seatbelts as the new school year draws closer.

OUTRAGE was sparked yesterday by news that school heads are being forced to turn to charities to fund psychological assessments for pupils.

PRINCIPALS have told the Education Department that they need more assistance and guidance to design the growing number of policies which schools are legally required to adopt.

A crackdown got underway in Cork, Dublin and Bray today to encourage people to bin used chewing gum in an effort to clean up the country’s streets.

THE State is squandering €5 million a year of taxpayers’ money deliberately dragging families with special needs children through the courts in order to break their will to battle for key education resources, TDs yesterday warned.

Thousands of children in schools around the country are being deprived of vital services due to a lack of school psychologists, it was claimed today.

The Government’s original deal with UK developers to build the Cork School of Music was a bit of a mess, it was claimed today.

Social care students are losing out on valuable work experience due to the state’s poor vetting system for those working with children, it was claimed today.