Today’s report on how a school in Cork has linked up with a Spanish school via the internet to support language studies is not by any means revolutionary but it does underline the almost limitless scope of IT to bring the process of learning to life.

ANY changes to the patronage of schools will have to be managed in a way that is cost-neutral, Education Minister Ruairi Quinn has warned.

MORE than 2,500 agricultural science students from almost 100 schools are attending a series of talks in Teagasc and private colleges across the country this week.

MORE than €24 million a year is being “squandered” on prefab classrooms because ministers have failed to get a grip on the pupil boom, Fine Gael warned last night.

PROPER PE funding would tackle our ‘obesity epidemic’, claim the Teachers Union of Ireland (TUI).