Person: Seamus Mulconry

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<p>The Peter McVerry Trust's research found rates of expulsion and suspension from school are significantly higher among the young men who use its services, versus the national average. Picture: Larry Cummins</p>

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Jess Casey: Breaking the link between educational disadvantage and homelessness

More than half of young homeless men surveyed had experienced reduced access to education due to suspension, rolling suspension, or expulsion, writes Jess Casey

<p>One point of pride in recent years has been the overall reduction in the primary school pupil: teacher ratio over the last successive budgets. Now averaging at 24:1, the low level still marks Ireland’s classes as the highest in the EU, comparing to an average of 20 students to a class. Picture: PA</p>

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Jess Casey: Education budgets never fully recovered from austerity years

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Spend on new school buildings cut following Budget 2020

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‘Pupils being poverty shamed’ over ‘voluntary’ school payments

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Bruton may not deliver on school fund vow; Parents and communities making up €46m cash shortfall

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State urged to restore equality of pay for teachers

Legal profession ‘only likely beneficiary’ of school bill

A bill by the Labour Party that seeks to make it harder for schools to use religion to select pupils might benefit nobody but the legal profession, a Catholic schools’ body claims.

Wed, 08 Feb, 2017

Schools say ‘baptism barrier’ is rare

Fewer than one in 20 Catholic schools in Dublin are turning away children who have not been baptised.

Mon, 23 Jan, 2017

Mixed reaction to Richard Bruton’s plan to tackle school enrolments

Education Minister Richard Bruton’s plans to tackle problems caused for parents by links between religion and school enrolments have received a very mixed reaction.

Tue, 17 Jan, 2017

Group claims 'nobody has been refused entry' to Catholic schools outside Dublin

A group representing Catholic primary schools is insisting there is no baptism requirement for their school places.

Mon, 16 Jan, 2017