Education News in Ireland
Posted by SchoolDays Newshound, on 04/12/2024.
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Students in Ireland continue to perform highly in TIMSS 2023 - an international assessment of Mathematics and Science achievement.
Ireland’s mean scores for both fourth class pupils and second year students were significantly ... click to read full post & comments
Posted by SchoolDays Newshound on 04/12/2024.
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Minister for Education, Norma Foley TD, has announced details of a new Science Implementation Support Grant worth €12 million to support schools with the rollout of revised ... click to read full post & comments
Posted by SchoolDays NewsHound on 22/11/2024.
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The Department of Education has issued Circular Letter 0086/2024 setting out the prescribed material for Junior Cycle Irish for students presenting for Final Examination in 2027, 2028 and ... click to read full post & comments
Posted by SchoolDays Newshound, on 22/11/2024.
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The Department of Education has issued Circular Letter 0088/2024 seting out the arrangements in relation to the payment of the cost-of-living measure totalling €45 million to support increased ... click to read full post & comments
Posted by Schooldays NewsHound, on 12/11/2024.
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McCabes Pharmacy School Flu Vaccination Service are delighted to once again offer their on-site Flu vaccination service to both primary and secondary schools ... click to read full post & comments
Posted by SchoolDays Newshound, on 12/11/2024.
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More than 30,000 members of the Association of Secondary Teachers, Ireland (ASTI) and the Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) will hold a nationwide lunchtime protest outside schools next Tuesday, 19th November in which they will seek ... click to read full post & comments
Posted by SchoolDays Newshound, on 12/11/2024.
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Minister for Education Norma Foley last week announced a significant investment of €9 million to provide school resources and materials for the new primary curriculum.
This initial funding will ensure that schools have essential resources and materials to deliver a ... click to read full post & comments
Posted by SchoolDays Newshound, on 25/10/2024.
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Minister for Education Norma Foley TD last week announced the extension of Strand 1 of the Counselling in Primary Schools Pilot to 61 urban DEIS primary schools in Tallaght, Clondalkin, Finglas, Ballymun and Darndale.
The schools that will now be included in the pilot have been ... click to read full post & comments
Posted by SchoolDays Newshound, on 25/10/2024.
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A new Social, Personal, and Health Education curriculum (SPHE) was introduced in September 2023 for all first-year students.
Over the three years of Junior Cycle, students will learn a variety of ... click to read full post & comments
Posted by SchoolDays Newshound, on 21/10/2024.
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Minister for Education Norma Foley TD and Minister of State with responsibility for Special Education and Inclusion Hildegarde Naughton TD have on 18 October, announced plans to establish five new special schools next year to cater for the increasing number of students with Special Educational Needs (SEN).
The schools will cater for children and young people with ... click to read full post & comments
Posted by SchoolDays Newshound, on 02/10/2024.
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Minister for Education Norma Foley has announced Jigsaw as the successful bidder to provide services to further support wellbeing and mental health in ... click to read full post & comments
Posted by SchoolDays Newshound, on 01/10/2024.
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A total of €1.3 billion has been allocated to the Department of Education for 2025,
This will include:
Free schoolbooks to be provided up to Leaving Cert
Fees will be waived for school State exams next year.
1,600 additional Special Needs Assistants
Provision for more than 768 ... click to read full post & comments(1)
Posted by SchoolDays Newshound, on 20/09/2024.
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Minister for Education Norma Foley TD has announced that her Department is going to establish a new national schools’ folklore project for the 21st century.
The project will follow in the footsteps of the ground-breaking schools’ ... click to read full post & comments
Posted by SchoolDays Newshound, on 20/09/2024.
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Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Roderic O’Gorman has announced the publication of the new Childminding Regulations, which will come into effect on 30 September. This is the first time that childminders will be able to register with Tusla under new regulations that reflect the home and family setting in which childminders work and that take into account the ... click to read full post & comments
Posted by SchoolDays Newshound, on 20/09/2024.
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Minister for Education Norma Foley TD has today published the list of 100 selected Phase One Schools that will be the first to offer Leaving Certificate Drama, Film and Theatre Studies and Leaving Certificate Climate Action and Sustainable Development from the start of the 2025/26 school year.
Among the schools participating in phase one, 57 post-primary schools have been ... click to read full post & comments(1)
Posted by SchoolDays Newshound on 13/09/2024.
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Minister for Education Norma Foley TD has welcomed the announcement from Edmund Rice Schools Trust (ERST) that CBS Synge Street will transition from an English medium, single-sex post-primary school to a co-educational Irish-medium Gaelcholáiste commencing with the first year intake in the school year ... click to read full post & comments
Posted by SchoolDays Newshound, on 04/09/2024.
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Minister for Education Norma Foley has announced that a Commission of Investigation is to be established, following a recommendation in the Report of the Scoping Inquiry set up to examine historical sexual abuse in day and boarding schools run by ... click to read full post & comments
Posted by SchoolDays Newshound, on 04/09/2024.
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Minister for Education Norma Foley TD has welcomed the publication of 12 new and revised Leaving Certificate subjects and Senior Cycle Programmes. This is part of the Senior Cycle redevelopment which the ... click to read full post & comments
Posted by SchoolDays Newshound, on 29/08/2024.
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The Minister of Education last June launched the ‘Bí Cineálta procedures to prevent and address bullying behaviour for primary, post-primary and special schools'. These new procedures have now been ... click to read full post & comments
Posted by SchoolDays Newshound, on 23/08/2024.
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60,839 Leaving Certificate students receive their Leaving Certificate Results today after 10am. The figure of 60,839 includes 4,086 students who sat the alternative Leaving Certificate Applied programme - an increase of ... click to read full post & comments
Posted by SchoolDays Newshound on 22/08/2024.
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Following the 9th August announcement of Government approval of the pilot for enhanced in-school therapy supports for 16 special schools, Minister O’Gorman, Minister Foley, Minister Rabbitte, Minister Naughton, senior HSE and NCSE officials have today ... click to read full post & comments
Posted by on 16/08/2024.
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Minister at sixes and sevens as teacher recruitment and retention crisis deepens’ – ASTI leader
82% of schools had no applications for vacant post/s in ‘23/24 school year
The teacher recruitment and ... click to read full post & comments
Posted by SchoolDays Newshound on 16/08/2024.
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Minister for Education Norma Foley TD has welcomed the news that over 600 teachers have undertaken training to address incidents of cyberbullying. The online training to address cyberbullying is being provided by ... click to read full post & comments
Posted by SchoolDays Newshound, on 16/08/2024.
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The Ombudsman for Children’s Office (OCO) commissioned Tomorrow Starts with Us, a survey carried out with Amárach Research to mark the OCO’s 20th Anniversary. The cost of living, mental health services and future housing needs are the top three concerns for over 1,000 secondary school students who ... click to read full post & comments
Posted by SchoolDays Newshound, on 07/08/2024.
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The Wellbeing Policy Statement and Framework for Practice published by the Department of Education includes the intention that all schools will use a School Self-Evaluation (SSE) Wellbeing Promotion process to develop, implement and review wellbeing promotion by 2025.
The Department has visited six schools to find out about their experience of this process and the benefit it has had on the whole school community. The Department has now published a selection of videos highlighting the fabulous wellbeing work that our schools are doing and are encouraging any schools that have not done so already to engage in wellbeing and complete the SSE process by the 2025 deadline.
You can view the videos published by the Department of Education HERE
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Posted by SchoolDays Newshound, on 19/06/2024.
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The Department of Education have published details of the Home Tuition Grant Scheme for 2024/2025.
The purpose of the Home Tuition Grant Scheme is to ... click to read full post & comments
Posted by SchoolDays Newshound, on 19/06/2024.
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Minister for Education Norma Foley TD today launched the ‘Bí Cineálta procedures to prevent and address bullying behaviour for primary, post-primary and special schools'.
These ‘Bí Cineálta’ (‘Be Kind’) procedures were developed in collaboration with the education partners and are heavily informed by ... click to read full post & comments
Posted by SchoolDays Newshound, on 12/06/2024.
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'Shocking’ reduction in funding for Schools’ Summer Programme will impact most vulnerable children
The ASTI has expressed its dismay at the decision to reduce funding for schools providing Summer Programme education for vulnerable students, including students with ... click to read full post & comments(1)
Posted by on 11/06/2024.
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The Department of Education can confirm that 18,133 Ukrainian pupils had been enrolled in schools across Ireland at the beginning of June. Out of that figure, 11,287 of these pupils had ... click to read full post & comments
Posted by Schooldays Newshound, on 05/06/2024.
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Minister for Education Norma Foley, Minister of State for Special Education and Inclusion Hildegarde Naughton and Minister of State for Sport, Physical Education and the Gaeltacht Thomas Byrne have extended good luck and ... click to read full post & comments
Posted by SchoolDays Newshound, on 08/05/2024.
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Minister for Education Norma Foley TD, Minister of State for Special Education and Inclusion Hildegarde Naughton TD and Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform with special responsibility for Public Procurement and eGovernment, Ossian Smyth TD have today (Wednesday 8 May 2024) announced details of year 2 of the Primary Schoolbooks Scheme which provides free schoolbooks to ... click to read full post & comments
Posted by Schooldays Newshound, on 01/05/2024.
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The Department of Education invites expressions of interest from post-primary schools interested in partaking in a project to review, evaluate and develop creativity in their school.
Successful schools will ... click to read full post & comments(1)
Posted by SchoolDays Newshound, on 29/04/2024.
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A survey from the National Principals’ Forum has revealed that more than half of primary school principals have reported that they had no faith that their appeal to the Department of Education for extra Special Education Teaching hours would be successful. They cited the administrative burden, the timeframe and the ... click to read full post & comments
Posted by SchoolDays Newshound, on 23/04/2024.
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Minister of State for Special Education and Inclusion, Hildegarde Naughton T.D., has announced details of the arrangements to apply for the application of the additional targeted supports for special schools announced in Budget 2024.
Special schools provide an education for children and young people with the most significant special educational needs. A key feature of Budget 2024 is the ... click to read full post & comments(1)
Posted by SchoolDays Newshound, on 19/04/2024.
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Minister for Education, Norma Foley TD, has launched Computer Science Week 2024, which is set to take place from 20 – 27 April.
Events set to take place during Computer Science Week 2024 will focus on the ... click to read full post & comments
Posted by SchoolDays Newshound, on 17/04/2024.
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Minister for Education Norma Foley TD has today confirmed that the gradual return to normal Leaving Certificate outcomes will begin in 2025. For students in 2024, there will be no change from last year with grades to stay at ... click to read full post & comments
Posted by SchoolDays Newshound, on 16/04/2024.
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Minister for Education Norma Foley TD has announced new initiatives to progress work on addressing bullying in schools from September 2024, as part of the Department of Education’s Cineáltas: Action Plan on Bullying. These will include the roll-out of new ... click to read full post & comments(1)
Posted by SchoolDays Newshound, on 16/04/2024.
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Minister for Education Norma Foley, TD, and Minister for Special Education and Inclusion, Hildegarde Naughton, TD, have announced a revised assessment of need process for schools.
This revised process has been developed on foot of a recent High Court judgement which found that ... click to read full post & comments
Posted by SchoolDays Newshound on 05/04/2024.
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Minister for Education Norma Foley TD has announced that Trinity College Dublin, alongside Marino Institute of Education, has secured a contract to offer an innovative two-year programme aimed at ... click to read full post & comments(2)
Posted by SchoolDays Newshound, on 03/04/2024.
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Autism Assistance Dogs Ireland (AADI) has announced the introduction of its new Animal Assisted Education Programme, which is supported by the Royal Canin Foundation in collaboration with University College Cork. The pioneering initiative aims to ... click to read full post & comments
Posted by SchoolDays Newshound, on 25/03/2024.
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Statement issued by Department of Education on the Delivery of the Junior Cycle Schoolbooks advising that additional user-friendly resources and support will be provided after Easter Break
The new Junior Cycle Schoolbooks Scheme is ... click to read full post & comments
Posted by Schooldays Newshound, on 25/03/2024.
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Minister for Education Norma Foley TD and Minister of State for Special Education and Inclusion Josepha Madigan TD have confirmed the location of two new special schools in Limerick and Kildare. This follows their announcement on 6 December 2023 of the establishment of four new special schools for ... click to read full post & comments
Posted by SchoolDays Newshound, on 08/03/2024.
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As part of the redevelopment of the Primary School Curriculum, NCCA has opened the consultation process inviting the public to have their say on the new primary school curriculum in modern Ireland.
The NCCA is consulting on ... click to read full post & comments(2)
Posted by SchoolDays Newshound, on 08/03/2024.
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Minister for Education Norma Foley TD has announced details of a new groundbreaking scheme which provides free schoolbooks to Junior Cycle students in post-primary schools in the ... click to read full post & comments