Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are set to add numbers to the Seanad election race from candidates who lost their Dáil seats.

Dozens of students will be without a secondary school place next year due to a chronic shortage of schools in East Cork, a group of concerned parents has claimed.

An investigation by the Cork Education and Training Board is continuing into whether there were financial irregularities at a school.

The Department of Education has been called on to intervene in a dispute at an Irish-medium unit in Louth where parents say their children are not being taught in Irish.

Half a million adults in Ireland have problems reading and writing, and even more have difficulty doing basic maths.

Students at a school in Louth are expected to walk out today to protest with their parents, who say their children are not being educated through Irish.

It’s a stressful time when the Leaving Cert results come out, and all too often it seems a change of plan is needed.

State-run secondary schools are failing to provide students who opt out of religion access to another subject.

When he took on the proverbial poisoned chalice of managing Cork’s ladies’ footballers in January 2016, it was easy to imagine that Ephie Fitzgerald might soon be choking on its contents.

A planning row has erupted in a north Kerry village over plans by a renewable energy firm to complete a partially developed power and heat-generation facility.

Two school patrons have breached Department of Education limits on spending on promotional materials when seeking parents’ backing to open new schools.

The principal of a Co Cork secondary school has gone on leave amid ongoing tensions with the Education and Training Board (ETB) over unfinished building work following the liquidation of the Sammon Contracting Group.

Gardaí have been sent details of inconsistencies around whether proper tendering took place for work on a Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board (ETB) property by a company with family links to the board’s former chief executive.

Parents are about to be surveyed about demand for alternatives to faith-specific primary schools but the local Catholic bishop will have final say on which other patron a building can transfer to.

The Catholic Church has handed over control of just 11 schools despite efforts by the State to increase diversity in the education system.

A fraud or theft in relation to procurement at Mid-West training centres might have cost an education and training board €150,000.

More than €2.8m in overpayments of grants for college students were outstanding at the end of 2016.

Longford and Westmeath Education and Training Board (LWETB) has been hit by a suspected €96,500 fraud in relation to payments for students being trained by an external service provider.

Kerry Education and Training Board spent at least €1m on goods and services without fully following rules around procurement in 2016.

Funding for post-Leaving Certificate courses will depend on their ability to match the staffing needs of local employers, under proposed new regulation of the sector.

Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board (KWETB) says it has co-operated fully with inquiries to date around procurement and other issues that are now subject to a ministerial-appointed investigation.

Latest: The Minister for Education, Richard Bruton, has "broadly welcomed" the move by the ETBI to no longer hold communion preparation classes during the school day at Community National Schools.

A Kerry school has enrolled just nine pupils after a patronage transfer from the Catholic bishop to the local education and training board.

The choice of schools that parents have for their children has become a social and political hot potato, as pressure grows to remove requirements to be baptised to guarantee entry.

The Cork Education and Training Board (ETB) has apologised for a data security breach which affected a handful of staff.

A Co Galway-based secondary school teacher has launched a High Court challenge against her proposed transfer from the school she has taught at for 17 years to another school.

A Catholic Kerry school with no pupils is to open under one multi-denominational patron in September while another has been looking for accommodation since 2013.

Delays in deciding who will open four new primary schools have been linked to prospective patrons poorly representing valid interest levels among parents.

More than 700 teachers risk having their pay stopped as their failure to apply for Garda vetting leaves them unable to renew their professional registration by this evening’s deadline.

Hundreds of teachers could be at risk of going unpaid because their failure to apply for Garda vetting means they will not be able to renew their professional registration.

Education Minister Richard Bruton’s plans to speed up the divestment of religious primary schools to new patrons face strong challenge as a multi-denominational schools group claims they prioritise the Catholic Church’s wishes over those of parents.

A Midlands education authority was caught for at least €50,000 by a phishing scam which is still under Garda investigation two years later.

School buildings for almost 1,300 children from pre-school to Leaving Certificate are to begin construction next year in the Cork town of Carrigaline.

A Co Limerick-based secondary school principal claims an investigation into complaints against him, including that he stared and winked at a co-worker, are part of an agenda to have him removed from his post.

Parents have been assured that a new primary school will open in a town in east Cork this autumn despite a legal challenge over who should run it.

The High Court has reserved judgment in an action brought by a secular schools body over a decision that an education and training board should run a new primary school due to open in Cork next September.

A secular schools body has brought a legal challenge over a decision that an education and training board should run a new primary school due to open in Co Cork next September.

The chairman of the Oireachtas’s public spending watchdog has criticised the prior management of County Cork’s vocational education and asked why board members of the time remain in their positions today.

Education and Training Boards Ireland has been selected to manage two new schools in Cork and Wicklow.

The Cork Education and Training Board (ETB) has introduced a whistleblower policy to help prevent a repeat of financial irregularities which rocked the education body it succeeded.

Over €400,000 may have to be written off by the Limerick and Clare Education Training Board (ETB) as a result of weaknesses in the control of capital projects by the former County of Limerick VEC.