One in every 65 school pupils has an autism diagnosis — a significantly higher than previously believed.

The Child Law Clinic of University College Cork has sent submissions to the European committee of ministers which could lead to a broadening of the day-school abuse redress scheme which is currently inaccessible to many alleged abuse victims.

The Health and Safety Authority (HSA) plans to ramp up its inspection rate in Co Cork after the county recorded the highest number of workplace deaths over last four years.

Secondary schools face an administrative headache in the wake of the rejection of the Haddington Road deal by teachers’ union ASTI — but pupils are not expected to be directly affected.

More than eight decades of education provision ends today when 33 city and county vocational education committees (VECs) are consigned to history.

Schools in England are losing their sense of humour under piles of data and spreadsheets as headteachers are forced to “wrestle with an octopus” of government initiatives and reforms, a union leader will warn today.

The education community has broadly welcomed the first Department of Education guidelines for 20 years on bullying in schools.

The principal who died in the rampage at a US school was killed while lunging at the gunman, town officials said.

Larger primary school class sizes and increases in college fees still look likely to be among the main features of Education Minister Ruairi Quinn’s 2013 education budget.

Changes to the curriculum and increasing availability of ebooks are making secondary schools reluctant to start book rental schemes.

MORE than 7,000 public sector workers have applied for the early retirement incentive scheme ahead of next month’s deadline.

A NUMBER of institutes of technology are already discussing possible mergers which are to be urged in the long-awaited higher education strategy being published this morning.

PARENTS of children with special needs have expressed concern about waiting times for assessments and poor communication by some schools.

HALF of the country’s schools face spiralling water bills this winter after funding promised nearly a year ago to allow them to significantly reduce their usage failed to materialise.

TEACHING services for disadvantaged people are to be disproportionately affected by cutbacks, an educational leader has warned.

THE days of collecting tokens and sweet wrappers for school equipment could soon become a thing of the past under new rules from primary school teachers.

TEACHERS have warned Ireland’s ambitions to be a knowledge society will be set back enormously without significant Government investment in computers and technology in schools.

Gunmen in military uniforms kidnapped dozens of people today from a commercial area in central Baghdad.

Most childcare workers have, or are working towards, a qualification, says Neans McSweeney.

A HIGHER Education Authority (HEA) board member has resigned in protest at the transfer of the Department of Health’s secretary general, Michael Kelly, to the Authority as full-time chairman.

MORE THAN 1,000 extra primary teachers are needed to cater for the needs of children with learning disabilities, according the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO).

TEACHERS have hit back at Education Minister Noel Dempsey for accusing schools of turning away children with disabilities and learning difficulties.

THE final bill for the compensation of abuse victims in religious institutions could hit €1 billion, the taxpayer’s watchdog confirmed yesterday.

PARENTS have called for a review of the Leaving Certificate marking system, because of wide differences between results at higher level and ordinary level.

The Labour Party spokeswoman on Education says the operation of residential care centres for young offenders is on the verge of collapse.

Wardship proceedings in the case of the Internet twins Belinda and Kimberley have been issued in the family division of the High Court, Flintshire County Council said.