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Few Government departments have faced pre-Budget skirmishes as fierce as those surrounding the Department of Education this year.…

Teenagers in Ireland are achieving significantly lower scores in reading and maths than they were a decade ago,…

There are few policy decisions that have shaped Ireland more than the introduction of free secondary school education.…

Shortly before schools rose for the summer, Minister for Education Hildegarde Naughton wrote to principals raising concern about…

Leaving Certificate students were “getting sick in the bathrooms” after this year’s “horrendous” maths paper one exam, parents…

A 12-year-old boy with special educational needs has received 18 rejections for a special school place, the Dáil…

An “exponential” increase in schoolchildren getting exemptions from Irish is denying them part of their identity, is not…

Minister to bring plan for first ever SNA strategy to Cabinet today The JournalSNA role roadmap for Cabinet, redeployment…

The number of students due to start the Leaving Certificate exams today has climbed to its highest ever…

Caoimhe Murphy (18) will walk into her first Leaving Certificate exam on Wednesday morning not only stressed about…

Thursday’s Irish Times/TG4/Ipsos B&A poll shows a three-horse race among the early front-runners in the Galway West byelection…

Criticism of policy around the allocation of special needs assistants (SNAs) to schools has argued that children did…

The Irish Times view on Ireland’s education system: a detailed comparison with some surprises – The Irish Times