The Minister for Education and Skills, Jan O’Sullivan, has indicated she would phase out so-called school ‘voluntary’ contributions if re-elected into Government.

Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan has promised to eradicate the “scandal” of prefab classrooms.

Jan O’Sullivan’s education budget for 2015 is over €8bn, not including capital spending of another €500m.

Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan will need extra funds by the year end to cater for more students qualifying for college grants and more special needs’ supports in schools.

The Taoiseach Enda Kenny, Minister for Education and Skills Jan O’Sulllivan, and Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Jimmy Deenihan, recently launched the programme to commemorate 1916 by presenting children in St Patrick’s NS in Castlebar, with the tricolour flag and a copy of the Proclamation.

A Limerick school principal has praised the "diligent and sympathetic" way in which Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan has dealt with the plight of a top Leaving Certificate student who found her way into third-level education blocked by fees.

The doubling of failure rates in higher level Leaving Certificate maths is not a cause for concern, says Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan.

A referendum would be needed to end the ability of Church-owned schools to give enrolment priority to children of their own faith, Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan has said.

Minister for Education Jan O’Sullivan has dismissed claims by Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin that Shannon Airport’s continued success was being gained at the expense of Cork Airport.

The Labour Relations Commission is again asking NUI Galway to come to talks with staff of a college due to come under its control, following Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan’s intervention in the dispute.

Asylum-seeker students may soon get a chance at a third-level education that financial barriers have previously blocked most from receiving, Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan has said.

Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan is disturbed by the idea of teachers blocking colleagues from upskilling themselves as the impasse on junior cycle reform shows no sign of lifting.

WITH teachers and Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan engaged in a fruitless war of words, worried parents and the country’s leading business organisation, Ibec, are understandably concerned about the long-term impact of this festering dispute on pupils and the whole education system.

Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan could face Cabinet pressure and campaigning from schools as she plans to put much tighter limits than previously proposed on the number of places schools can reserve for past pupils’ children.

Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan is changing plans to hold pupils’ personal data until their 30th birthday and will delete the information when they turn 19 instead.

New assessment methods for junior cert students are to be covered in training which Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan plans to take place next month despite an ongoing union ban on 27,000 teachers attending.

Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan is satisfied with third-level colleges’ changes to entry systems, despite most having failed so far to significantly reduce course numbers from which Leaving Certificate students can choose.

Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan has asked management at Cork and Tralee institutes of technology to keep up consultation with staff who are concerned over their planned merger.

EDUCATION Minister Jan O’Sullivan’s declaration that she intends to continue rolling out the planned new junior cycle programme without the agreement of teachers’ unions suggests that she is running out of patience with the unions and it is hard to blame her.

Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan says she cannot get involved in the dispute in which lecturers at institutes of technology in Cork and Tralee are moving towards industrial action over a planned merger.

Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan has said she is hopeful of a breakthrough in the dispute with secondary school unions over the new assessment proposals for the Junior Certificate.

Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan’s proposal to incorporate philosophy into the curriculum of schools can only be of benefit.

Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan says her department will continually review policy on keeping data on primary pupils, which it intends to hold until they reach the age of 30.

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.

Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan says the junior cycle reform dispute will not be advanced by another strike by teachers that looks almost certain to go ahead at 720 second-level schools next week.

The plan by Jan O’Sullivan, the education minister, to teach philosophy to junior cycle students and offer courses on politics and society for senior cycle students is very welcome.

The row over changes to the Junior Certificate between Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan and teacher unions looks set to spill into 2015 with no talks arranged.

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.

As Education Minster Jan O’Sullivan had to acknowledge recently, the Government decision to change school patronage to better reflect Ireland today has hardly led to rapid change in the management of our education system. 

Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan has told college bosses they will not be allowed keep the €250 extra that most students must pay next year — and says the Higher Education Authority should not be seeking such "massive increases" for the sector.

Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan says extra funding can only come at a price, writes Niall Murray

More structural changes in the higher education system are needed as well as decisions on who funds it, Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan has told university leaders.

Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan says she will not shy away from tough political decisions on student fees before the next Dáil election.

The resolution to a dispute with teachers about junior cycle reforms lies in ensuring the way teachers assess their students is the same in all schools, Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan believes.

The question on everybody’s lips in the education sphere will be whether Jan O’Sullivan can maintain the same kind of favourable treatment for her department’s budget as Ruairi Quinn before her, writes Education Correspondent Niall Murray

A primary school with just two pupils should continue operating, despite the disproportionate staffing costs, Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan has insisted.

Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan will have to rush through law in the coming months to allow the Teaching Council to continue vetting thousands of teachers for substitution work and avoid chaos in the running of schools.

Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan is not ruling out any changes to the detail of junior cycle reforms after hearing teachers’ concerns about the plans.

Following a report by the Higher Education Authority showing a big gap in students from different backgrounds accessing third-level education, Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan said her main objective as minister is to open up higher education to students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

The refurbishment of 2,000 council flats depends upon EU aid money, Housing Minister Jan O’Sullivan has told the Cabinet.