There’s one big problem in the Government’s Action Plan for Education which aims to make Ireland’s education and training service “the best in Europe by 2026”: the children have been forgotten. writes Victoria White. 

One in five second-level students is being taught maths by a teacher whose main area of study was in a different subject, research shows.

Recently-qualified Irish primary teachers are giving pupils a good grounding in science, with more classroom experiments than older colleagues.