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Gift of libraries is not just about reading, it's about imagination and mental health
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It's a rap – music and videos help teens to open up
Five years ago, she was an early-morning presenter on Today FM. Now Ann-Marie Kelly has been inspired by a rapper to bring a positive message on mental health to Irish schools.
Late college offers due after appeals
HUNDREDS of this year's Leaving Certificate students can expect late college offers as exam chiefs release the results of this year's re-checks.
There's more than one way to educate a cat: utilising the stepladder of levels
Over the past two weeks, we have focused on the National Framework of Qualifications. We explored the four levels that Leaving Cert students normally apply for and the different entry requirements a student must satisfy in order to apply for courses at each level.
Mind over matter in the classroom as pupils enjoy benefits of meditation
Early morning in Darndale's Our Lady Immaculate Junior School and Ms Lynch leads senior infants to their meditation room.
Labour insists classroom sizes will stay same amid wrangles over cuts
LABOUR insists class sizes will be left untouched in the Budget – despite the ongoing wrangling over cuts.
School sets pace with first digital badge of honour
ROBBIE O'Leary's tech-savvy primary school is a digital revolution leader, but the principal says setting such an example is not about counting the numbers of computers in classrooms.
One-in-five adults has difficulty with basic literacy tasks
A POOR score by Irish adults in a major international survey on reading, maths and digital literacy skills has sparked warnings about how well equipped the population is for modern-day living and working.
Enda back to school after lesson from voters
After a lesson in humility from voters who shot down his plans to scrap the Seanad, Taoiseach Enda Kenny has gone back to the classroom.
Gift of libraries is not just about reading, it's about imagination and mental health
ONE of my favourite people in history is Andrew Carnegie, the multimillionaire who in the early 1900s donated a major slice of his cash toward the building of public libraries in Ireland, Britain, and a number of other countries.
Trinity continues its slide down worldwide university rankings
IRELAND'S most famous university has suffered a blow after it slid further down the world's most prestigious league table.
Government's cool response as teachers call for dispute talks
ONE of the country's biggest teaching unions has called on the Government to engage in talks aimed at ending industrial action in hundreds of schools.
One in seven teens bullied online in past three months
ONE-in-seven Irish teens has been the victim cyber-bullying in the last three months, according to new findings.
Class time will be cut if teachers take action
PUPILS sitting the Leaving and Junior Cert exams face the prospect of class time being cut if planned industrial action by one of the biggest teaching unions goes ahead tomorrow.
UCD and Trinity bidding to stub out campus smoking
IRELAND'S two biggest universities are considering plans to become completely smoke-free – in line with a growing international trend.
Class time will be cut if teachers take action
PUPILS sitting the Leaving and Junior Cert exams face the prospect of class time being cut if planned industrial action by one of the biggest teaching unions goes ahead tomorrow.
Schools forced to halt parent-teacher nights in ASTI row
PARENT-teacher meetings in hundreds of secondary schools will be cancelled from next week as the impact of industrial action by teachers starts to be felt even before it begins.
Highly qualified graduates now make up majority of emigrants
HIGHLY qualified university graduates are dominating the flood of Irish people emigrating to Europe, the US, Canada and Australia for a better life.
Kenny expresses concerns about 'brain drain' as our best-educated emigrate
Taoiseach Enda Kenny has expressed concern about the fact that young people with jobs are still choosing to emigrate for better opportunities abroad.
School sets pace with first digital badge of honour
ROBBIE O'Leary's tech-savvy primary school is a digital revolution leader, but the principal says setting such an example is not about counting the numbers of computers in classrooms.
Teachers not able to switch union as strike action looms
TEACHERS will not be allowed to switch unions to avoid being part of the dispute with the Government over pay.
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Cutbacks 'affecting behaviour and results'
EDUCATION cuts are affecting student behaviour, attendance and exam results, second-level school managers have warned.
Kenny backs Ruairi Quinn's teacher jobs stance
TAOISEACH Enda Kenny has backed up Education Minister Ruairi Quinn's hardline stance that secondary school teaching jobs are on the line after some teachers rejected the Haddington Road Agreement.
Disruption on cards as 17,000 teachers take action
PARENTS face major disruption from next week as 17,000 teachers roll out plans to either cut classes or cancel meetings.
Rebel teachers could stall plan for new Junior Cert
PROTESTING second-level teachers may force Education Minister Ruairi Quinn to delay plans for a new-style Junior Cert next September.
Join in World Rhino Day celebrations
Did you know that in the late 1800s the southern white rhino was considered extinct until 100 of the mammals were discovered in Natal, South Africa? Two can now be found in Dublin Zoo. Today is World Rhino Day, and now in its third year, it has become a world- wide event celebrated from Nepal to New Zealand and Milwaukee to Malaysia. Dublin Zoo is celebrating too. Altogether there are five types of rhinoceros but they're in constant danger of depletion because of poachers. Prince William, now royal patron of the Tusk Trust, is among those concerned. Illegal trade of rhinoceros horns is the main reason behind their decline. The Phoenix Park zoo houses Ashanti and Zanta – why don't you pop down and wish them a happy World Rhino Day? www.worldrhinoday.org
City school first to be handed over by church authorities
A DEAL has been reached on the handover of the first Catholic primary school in the country to a different patron body.
Graduates 'will miss out on top jobs' over careless online posts
TOP graduates could find themselves unemployable because of what they are posting online, a social media expert warned.
SOLAS appoints chairman
A WELL-known figure among private sector employers is being appointed to head up SOLAS, the new state authority for further education and training, which will replace FAS.
Minister insists history won't be forgotten
THE Seanad might yet be consigned to history, but Education Minister Ruairi Quinn, pictured, sought to assure his audience in the second house that it would not be forgotten by tomorrow's students.
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