Week three of Leaving Certificate 2016 blasted off with references to a spacecraft visiting Pluto and the Large Hadron Collider project in Switzerland.

Second-level teachers could stand outside school gates in the autumn if newer entrants to the profession are not put on the same pay levels as longer-serving counterparts.

Parents are to be targeted in a campaign to explain teacher’s educational concerns about Ruairi Quinn’s plans to replace the Junior Certificate with a new system of school-based assessment.

IN his letter headlined ‘Partners bill fraught with anomalies’ (March 22), Noel O’Shaughnessy refers to the Oxford Dictionary of English and the “natural law” of Christian belief to support his definition of the family unit as being a male and female and their children.