Emma O Kelly

Education Correspondent

Stationery items placed in a makeshift container

School secretaries, caretakers set for strike action

As schools prepare to reopen this week and next, trade union Fórsa has described as "deliberate and indefensible" the exclusion of many school secretaries and caretakers from access to a public service pension and public sector terms of employment.

Education • 21 Aug

How will grade deflation look for Leaving Cert results?

With Leaving Cert 2025 results out this coming Friday and CAO offers following hot on their heels, many students are wondering how the gradual deflation of results, which starts this year, will play out for them when it comes to getting a place at college.

Education • 17 Aug

School uniforms in a shop window in Limerick

Call for Govt to expand back-to-school allowance

Children's charity Barnardos has called on the Government to expand eligibility for the back-to-school allowance to help more parents meet the cost of kitting out their child for the school year.

Education • 06 Aug

Set dancing is being discovered by a new generation in Ireland

Set dancing wheeling in new generation of participants

In the back room at Mary Mullen's bar in Galway city, three musicians with fiddle, mandolin and banjo are belting out music and around 30 young people, all in couples, are dancing.

Nationwide • 02 Jul

Eight primary schools to close permanently from today

As primary schools across the country close today for the summer holidays, eight will be shutting their doors for the last time.

Education • 27 Jun

Calls for guaranteed employment for new radiographers

Student and trade union representatives have called on the HSE to guarantee employment to student radiographers and radiation therapists graduating this year.

Health • 25 Jun

ASTI to use dispute processes over senior cycle reforms

Second level teachers' union the ASTI has said it will instigate dispute process mechanisms to seek to advance the "significant" concerns of teachers regarding senior cycle redevelopment.

Education • 25 Jun

What impact will the changes to Senior Cycle have?

Plans to overhaul how Leaving Certificate students are assessed will be discussed by the leadership of the ASTI teachers' union at a two-day meeting in Killarney which begins this afternoon.

Education • 24 Jun

Ministers publish document outlining education plans

The Minister for Education and Youth and Minister of State for Special Education and Inclusion have published a document outlining their plans this year for education.

Education • 19 Jun

DCU researchers found that most studies showed that banning the devices in schools had 'little or no impact on education and wellbeing'

'Little impact' on wellbeing by banning phones in schools

Banning smartphones in schools has little or no impact on the wellbeing of students or their education or on the prevalence of online bullying, research by the Anti-Bullying Centre at Dublin City University has found.

Ireland • 18 Jun