Incentives other than increased training places will be needed to keep pace with growing demand for second-level teachers, Education Minister Richard Bruton has been advised.

It’s everywhere you look at the moment. Schools basketball. Schools hockey. Senior Cup rugby. Colleges hurling, colleges football.

There has been a marked deterioration in the standard of Irish among pupils in primary schools.

Primary school principals who also have to teach need one day per week to be freed up for mounting administrative duties, Education Minister Richard Bruton has been warned.

Worthy further education reforms may be unrealistic without extra funding, writes Education Correspondent Niall Murray.

The mass return to school is under way across Ireland and, once again, the question is posed by many with dogs in the great educational fight: Are the country’s schools equipping their pupils for life in the digital age?

Leaving Certificate students need to think carefully before sitting higher-level maths papers, after the chief examiner expressed concern that some students lacked the basic skills needed for the exam.

Female students seem to be getting more cautious about taking honours Leaving Certificate maths after an initial spike when bonus college entry points were introduced.

The picturesque Lough Rynn Castle awoke to the sound of screaming yesterday as a bunch of fresh-faced Roses were overwhelmed by the sweet smell of success — the youngest among them had just received her Leaving Certificate results and no one could quite contain their joy.

The doubling of failure rates in higher level Leaving Certificate maths is not a cause for concern, says Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan.

Parents are being urged to remain vigilant as new figures show a drop in the numbers checking their children's behaviour online.

Bodies representing school boards and principals believe the junior cycle reform offer to unions should be enough for them to call off strikes that threaten to close 730 schools from December 2.

Teachers and students are facing a ‘curricular limbo’ due to the standoff between teaching unions and the Department of Education over Junior Cycle reforms, a group representing school principals has warned.

Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan insists junior cycle reforms will go ahead as she prepares to re-enter talks with teacher unions over opposition to marking their own pupils.

Principals now spend more time dealing with troubled students than troublesome ones as they carry the burden of collapsed pastoral supports at second level, the education minister was told yesterday.

A jump in the number of students doing an oral Irish test for the Junior Certificate highlights the need to resolve a teachers’ dispute over junior cycle assessment, a principals’ leader has claimed.

Tackling the modern-day scourge of cyberbullying should be part of the school curriculum and more funding is needed to combat growing levels of online aggression, teachers have warned.

A radical overhaul of legislation around cyberbullying is needed as it is spiralling out of control, according to a leading law expert.

The strong advice from education experts to exam students is to sleep and eat well over the next two weeks.

School managers have rejected claims that they are unable or unwilling to deal with intimidating and violent student behaviour.

Violence, intimidation, and verbal abuse by students are on the rise and risk getting worse because of cuts to guidance and other roles, a teachers’ union has warned.

Parents around the country will be able to avail of new anti-bullying training by the National Parents Council.

The ISPCC has developed a new online reporting tool, to tell on bullies.

An expected 15% increase in the number of students attending second-level schools by 2020 could lead to a shortage of teachers in particular subjects, principals have warned.

The number of Junior and Leaving Certificate students getting a waiver from exam fees because of family circumstances has jumped by more than 50% in five years to nearly 42,000.

Open days for prospective parents are being moved forward and class trips face cancellation because of the looming teachers’ industrial action at 500 second-level schools.

Parents and students face disruption while junior cycle reforms could be under threat because of industrial action decided by the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI).

The importance of creating a positive spirit in schools is key to the success of new anti-bullying procedures, a parents’ leader has said.

Good sleeping and eating routines are among the key last-minute tips from experts to thousands of students counting down to Wednesday’s start of this year’s exams.

Three West Cork students have been honoured for their outstanding voluntary work at an All-Ireland youth awards event.

The Leaving Certificate class of 2016 should have fewer high-point college degrees to choose from and should no longer be competing in exams for sub-grades just 5% apart.

Only half of parents check on a weekly basis what their child is doing on the internet, despite widespread concerns that their children are involved in cyber-bullying.

BULLYING is a growing problem in our schools.

Nearly a fifth of parents believe their child has fallen victim to cyber bullying, a survey suggests.

Over half of parents check their child's internet activity at least once a week, according to a survey on bullying carried out by Ámarach.

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

The major overhaul of the Junior Certificate will proceed as planned despite teachers’ claims they have not been consulted, Education Minister Ruairi Quinn insisted yesterday.

Students and parents’ organisations have welcomed the planned overhaul of the Junior Certificates that will move the emphasis away from the final exam.

Teachers should correct their own students’ Junior Certificate exam papers, the head of the country’s second-level principals has suggested as almost 59,000 students get their results this morning.

The state exams begin this morning with a drop in numbers for the Leaving Certificate but a 10-year high of almost 60,000 Junior Certificate students.

School discipline rules should not be changed for sixth-year students involved in serious misbehaviour or whose pranks get out of hand, a principals’ leader has claimed.

Half of parents have complained to their child’s school about bullying, with experts calling for clear guidelines to help tackle what is becoming a growing problem.