Not all classes start with students standing and bowing to the teacher — but that’s what happens when teenagers come into Gretta Daly’s Japanese classes.

Building work is set to start on a new €30m building project at St Patrick's College, Drumcondra, Dublin, after Tánaiste and Education Minister Mary Coughlan approved the contract for the project this week.

WESLEY College and Scoil Chaitriona Glasnevin won through to the last 16 of the Thomas Crosbie Holdings All Ireland Schools Quiz at the Montrose Hotel, Dublin, last evening.

A SPLIT developed in Cork schools yesterday as the city's Lord Mayor defied a directive from the Minister for Education and asked principals to give pupils a half day.

THE cream of the crop came from Cork this year, with four Leaving Certificate students scoring top marks in eight subjects.