Wednesday 25 May, 2022
The Higher Education Minister said the Government is firmly against “unfair” student loans.
The minister is bringing proposals to the Cabinet today.
Fees for graduate entry medicine (GEM) students are now set at €16,290 per year for Irish students.
Labour’s education spokesperson Aodhán Ó Ríordáin says there is an urgent need for language support for Ukrainian children.
“If the girls’ schools remain closed even after one week, we will open them ourselves.”
There is a significant gap in higher education between Travellers and the wider population, Minister Simon Harris says.
Simon Harris said work is also underway to ensure Ukrainian people can access higher education in Ireland too.
It is currently allowed that 25% of school places can be reserved for children and grandchildren of past pupils.
The party says the bill is needed amid “the wider discussion about gender equality”.
Labour’s Bill seeks to change the School Admissions Act.
A new strategy on eduation for sustainable development is due to be published by the end of March.
Tanya Ward of the Children’s Rights Alliance argues that we need a more modern, dynamic approach to education in Ireland.
That’s according to the latest data from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre.
Student teachers are being drafted in to cover Covid absences.
The number of teachers at primary and post-primary level went up from 61,942 in 2016 to 69,343 in 2020.
Groups opposed to Covid measures are urging people to contact principals with questions about mask mandates and vaccines.
Public health officials and education representatives held a meeting today.
One child has been taken out of the school because of the lack of on-site clinicians with the relevant skills.
Mask users lose visual information, but there are lots of things you can do to help them, writes speech and language therapist Kate Beckett.
Year-three and year-four student teachers will be deployed in schools where needed during this academic year, the Department of Education said.
The schools had submitted an expression of interest in the programme in November 2020 but were not chosen at that time.
The Fianna Fáil TD and former teacher went back to the classroom to help after a shortage of substitute teachers.
Noteworthy’s Maria Delaney and social care worker Anne Marie Quilligan tell Susan Daly about the conditions faced by Traveller children in the country’s education system.
Culinary Arts students had complained that it was unsanitary for them to change in corridors or public toilets for classes in kitchens.
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Galway-Mayo, Sligo and Letterkenny institutes of technology are to combine to become a Technical University.
Gavin Molloy of Olus Education says the schools’ curriculum needs to keep up to prepare for the careers of tomorrow.
Primary school class sizes are set to be reduced.
Some opposition politicians were critical of what they labelled “confusing” guidance for when pupils are designated as close contacts.
Young Travellers found remote schoolwork extra challenging due to lack of access to digital and other resources during the pandemic.
There were 1,000 cases per week on average during school term.
More than 100 Department of Education staff have been working with public health teams, Norma Foley said.
More than 46,000 Covid-19 cases have been recorded in children and teenagers up to July.
The last time the Taliban had control over the country, women and girls were mostly denied education or employment.
Pregnant people cannot register for a Covid-19 vaccine prior to 14 weeks’ gestation.
Colleges will implement sanitation and ventilation measures, as well as occupancy limits in certain locations.
It is claimed that the lack of supports may have left him years behind his potential.
63% were concerned about their children’s emotional development and 51% were concerned about social skills.
