PUBLIC sector unions have said social partnership is dead and told their members to prepare themselves for strikes.

SECOND-level teachers and managers have rejected Education Minister Batt O’Keeffe’s assertion that only 240 teaching posts will be lost in their schools this autumn after provisional figures showed 3,600 fewer jobs.

A SPOKESMAN for the 477 workers who are to lose their jobs at the Banta RR Donnelly plant in Limerick said yesterday they were “pretty happy” with the redundancy package offered.

THE popularity of YouTube, Bebo and Facebook has been harnessed by one Irish college to market its third-level courses.

EFFORTS to improve and modernise the country’s 4,000 schools will benefit from a €0.5 billion building package unveiled by Education Minister Mary Hanafin yesterday.

A TEACHERS’ union has taken out advertisements in national newspapers to protest at what it calls Government failure to properly invest in further education.