STATE-FUNDED schools are forced to raise up to €17,000 a year to supplement computers and technical support funding from the Department of Education, major research has found.

A PLAN to promote the arts in schools and colleges is to be drawn up by a group of experts announced by the Government yesterday.

PARENTS need to learn more about the internet to help ensure their children are using it safely, experts have warned.

TWO girls aged 10 and 11 were suspended from a Dublin primary school after sending sexually suggestive text messages to a male teacher.

ONLY half of the country’s schools have been fully connected for broadband internet use but the Department of Education insists it should have the rest of them hooked up by its own deadline of next March.