Higher level maths students faced an algebra-dominated paper without any financial maths, but it was easier and shorter than their mock exams, teachers say.

Three out of four primary teachers agree that some primary school pupils felt extremely anxious about standardised tests.

Glengarriff’s Darragh McElhinney’s will be one of the stars at the Irish Life Health All-Ireland Schools Cross-Country Championships in Mallusk, Co Antrim, today.

This week we meet up with Maître d’ and restaurant manager, John Healy.

A national anti-bullying programme needs to be rolled out across the country according to a panel of experts behind Ireland’s first online resource to help those affected.

Children who always have their nose in a book are likely to end up with a better vocabulary as adults, research has found.

The triumph and tragedy of sport was encapsulated by Harry Purcell’s magnificent senior 800m and 400m double before he pulled a hamstring in the 4x100m relay at the Aviva All-Ireland Schools Track and Field Championships in Tullamore on Saturday.

A leading expert in music education will address an event hosted by the Academy of Popular Music at CIT Cork School of Music next Saturday.

THE 250 marine sector jobs earmarked for Killy-begs harbour, Co Donegal, could become a national model for how to drive collective employment.

THE State Examinations Commission has defended the system which allows schools appoint individual supervisors for more than 7,000 students with special needs after it emerged one sent Twitter internet messages while supposed to be overseeing a Dublin student’s exam.

LAST year, Ciara Mageean (Assumption, Ballinahinch) took her career to a new level when she broke Sonia O’Sullivan’s long standing national junior 800m record at the Irish schools track and field championships.

THE Irish will be well represented in X Factor this year with Dublin twins John and Edward making the final 12 along with model Azi Jegbefume.

A south Dublin teenager has been found guilty of the fatal stabbing of another teenager outside his house on Waterloo Road by a jury at the Central Criminal Court.

A TEACHERS’ union has called for the €80 million spent by the Government each year for running costs at fee-paying schools to be used for special needs and tackling bad behaviour.

New figures reportedly show that students who attend fee-paying schools and grind schools are continuing to dominate university enrolments.

STEPHEN SCULLION (Wellington College) and Sarah Treacy (King’s Hospital), the newly crowned national junior cross-country champions, bid for more success in the Kit Kat All-Ireland Schools Championships at St Clare’s Sports Ground, DCU, this afternoon.

An Irish-speaking school has reportedly joined the list of the top-10 feeder schools for Trinity College Dublin ahead of some of Ireland's best-known fee-paying institutions.

One in three first-year students attending the country's largest university, UCD, came from fee-paying schools.

GUILT-RIDDEN parents who agonise about sending their children to nursery should take heart from new research showing pre-school pupils perform better at primary school, according to Britain’s children’s minister Margaret Hodge.

A POLITICAL decision must be taken to reintroduce college fees if Government plans for equal access are to be achieved, an education expert said yesterday.

Private fee-paying schools and grind schools are still the main providers of students to the two leading colleges in Ireland, according to reports this morning.

A LITTLE information is a dangerous thing, and a little information is what was used to print the school league tables published last weekend.