The wait ends tomorrow for around 59,000 students who are due to receive their Leaving Certificate results.

Parents want better local procedures to deal with complaints about teachers, which could prevent the need to hold fitness-to-teach inquiries.

Parents will be watching the rollout of a reformed college entry system very closely to ensure the desired effects of easing the long-running points race are achieved, education leaders have been told.

For students the period between their Leaving Certificate results and choosing a route to the next stage of their lives is exciting but for many it is an anxious time.

Schoolbook publishers say they brought out new editions of just over one-in-50 titles last year and income from sales is down despite the continuing rise in student numbers.

A leading teacher union official says he would have no problem running another ballot of members on Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan’s revised junior cycle reform plans.

Unions are refusing to re-ballot members on revised junior cycle proposals as they force students to stay at home from 720 second-level schools today and threaten a third strike.

Attempts by Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan to try and restart talks on junior cycle reform have received a tentative welcome from teacher unions.

There is no resolution to the teachers’ dispute in sight as Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan insists unions make concessions on assessment before talks on junior cycle reform can resume.

Second-level teacher union leaders meet this morning under mounting pressure to discuss revised junior cycle reform plans instead of considering school strikes.

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.

A doctor has warned of the dangers of the "pass-out challenge" — a fad which is gaining popularity among teens on social media sites.

By Niall Murray Education Correspondent

Children can provide information about themselves to their new schools when they move to second-level education, as part of a new compulsory education passport.

Schools which fail to comply with a new charter for parents and students could face Department of Education intervention, Education Minister Ruairi Quinn has said.

A parents’ leader has called on teacher unions and Education Minister Ruairi Quinn to resolve the dispute over junior cycle reform.

Little effect is likely to be felt by students or schools as teachers begin industrial action today in protest at reforms that will see the abolition of the Junior Certificate.

Claims that teachers will come under pressure to mark their students favourably in exams replacing the Junior Certificate have been dismissed by a parents’ leader.

Parents are being asked to give their views on internet security and safety for children ahead of Government plans to establish an internet content watchdog.

Schools that repeatedly refuse enrolment or breach proposed new admissions rules could get away with it unless an independent appeals system remains available, a parents’ leader has claimed.

The Government and the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland have come up with proposals that may finally see the union sign up to the Haddington Road Agreement.

Parents trust teachers enough to mark their own students in the planned new-style Junior Certificate, a second-level parents’ leader has said.

Some health professionals are diagnosing children with disabilities so they will get extra educational supports, TDs, and Senators were told yesterday.

THE National Council for Special Education (NCSE), the body charged with advising the minister for education on the teaching of children with special needs, is listening carefully to students, parents, and advocacy groups.

More than one in 10 college courses did not have enough applicants to fill all their places in this week’s first round of CAO offers.

Students have been snapping up college places after almost 50,000 received an offer on a third-level course yesterday.

Almost 50,000 people have been offered the chance to study on a third-level college course.

Celebrate with style, not with pace. That’s the message from a number of organisations urging Leaving Certificate students who intend to celebrate their results with alcohol to do so responsibly.

Education Minister Ruairi Quinn insists he does not have power to force schools into moves that would reduce parents’ bills on books, uniforms and other education costs.

Primary school pupils will have their progress tracked in the education system by a long-awaited database that could help the Government develop better education and social policies.

The National Parents’ Council has commended the swift action of a school authority in disciplining girls involved in a fight which was recorded and posted on the internet.

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

Tears may be flowing as thousands of children begin their first days at school around the country this week — but fretful parents are advised to remember their crying could be contagious.

Parents of second-level students have welcomed proposals by universities to overhaul the points system but want to see changes happen fast.

While the Leaving Certificate results can seem like the be all and end all, in reality there are so many other options for your future, according to mental health promoter HeadsUp.

As more than 55,000 Leaving Cert students prepare to celebrate tonight, several organisations have called for greater vigilance in the sale of alcohol to young people.

Churches have serious concerns about the religious identity of their schools as a result of moves to make them more inclusive, a Catholic schools leader said.

EARLY each morning before departing to sit his Leaving Certificate exams, Jackie O’Callaghan’s son would take out his electric guitar.

Nearly 50 communities around the country have been identified as the sites where the Catholic Church should first hand over control of primary schools.

Educationalists now believe homework is worthless and even creates bad habits. David Young asks if it is as pointless as it seems

SINCE 2009, educationalists have dreaded the annual budget.

TEENS are becoming so addicted to texting and surfing the net that they behave like recovering drug addicts when forced to switch their gadgets off, research has found.

SCHOOLS have been told by the Government’s consumer watchdog to stop forcing parents to buy expensive uniforms.

The country’s top health officials have stated that there are no plans in place to close schools even in the event of a swine flu outbreak.