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Parents queue for five nights

This week the rush was on for places at Mercy Mounthawk Secondary School in Tralee, Co Kerry. The school has a history of queuing...

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€900m building programme and 3,300 jobs

Minister O'Keeffe has claimed that 3,300 construction jobs could be created in 2009 by the Government's €900 million school building programme.

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Fears that cash strapped schools may drop Transition Year

With the ending of the €100 annual grant for Transition Year students, there are fears that some schools may decide to scrap the programme.

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Minister challenged on vast sums spent on prefabs

Minister for Education Batt O'Keeffe has stated that last year the Government spent more than €50 milllion on temporary prefabs.

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School managers address Oireachtas Committee

For the first time, secondary school managers were invited to appear before the Oireachtas Committee on Education to discuss fee-paying schools.

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Department has major rethink on patronage of schools

Last week, the Department of Education rescinded a 2008 decision to give patronage of a proposed new post-primary school in Lucan to Dublin VEC.

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Garda conducts lottery for school places

This year, Gorey Community School - one of the biggest in the country at 1,600 pupils - held a lottery to allocate remaining places for Sept 2010.

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Schools are being “ripped off” by gas bills

Schools are being charged one-third more for gas than they should be because they are treated as businesses, Fine Gael TD Brian Hayes says.

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Job prospects multiply as pupil numbers soar

As the number of full time students in Ireland reaches the million mark for the first time in the history of the State, new teaching positions come on stream.

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Outdated classrooms hamper students’ learning

New ESRI study finds that most Irish primary school classrooms are not designed to be student-centred or to accommodate new technology.

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