Emma O Kelly

Education Correspondent

A white airplane is seen on the tarmac at Dublin airport

First group of Gazans arrive in Ireland to study

Twenty-six young Palestinians from Gaza have arrived in Ireland to begin a new life as students in Irish universities.

Ireland • 18 Sep

A woman flips through a book on the library shelf

Over half receive first choice CAO offer for Level 8

Just over half of all students applying for Level 8 or degree courses via this year's CAO have received an offer of a place on their top choice course, and four out of five have been offered one of their top three preferences.

Education • 27 Aug

Teachers will march to the Department of Further and Higher Education at 11.30am

Adult education teachers to stage march over job losses

Adult education teachers plan to march to the Department of Further and Higher Education this morning to highlight job losses in the sector.

Ireland • 27 Aug

A man has his child on his knee as they both look down at a phone while a woman sits beside them staring off camera

Parents of autistic children criticise schools delays

As the country's primary schools reopen this week and prepare to welcome their new junior infants, many autistic children who were promised a school place for September will remain at home because their school is not ready to accept them.

Education • 02 Sep

Students sit in a lecture hall listening to a lecture

Focus turns to CAO offers following Leaving Cert results

For many students who received Leaving Certificate results today their focus is now switching to Wednesday's Round 1 CAO college offers, writes Emma O Kelly.

Analysis and Comment • 22 Aug

(Left to right) Ciara Gibney, Jessie Brennan and Jody Whelan receive their Leaving Certificate results, at The Donahies Community School in Dublin

Top marks down as Leaving Cert grade deflation takes hold

Leaving Certificate results have fallen this year as grade deflation takes hold after five years of artificially high outcomes.

Education • 22 Aug

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