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The Minister of State for Research and Innovation, Seán Sherlock TD, has welcomed today’s...

New research shows that over 50 per cent of students who were enrolled in the final year of Senior Cycle in a Department of Education & Skills-supported post-primary schools in 2010 went directly ...

New research shows that over 50 per cent of students who were enrolled in the final year of Senior Cycle in a Department of Education & Skills-supported post-primary schools in 2010 went directly to higher education. A further 28 per cent progressed to further education...

The Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn T.D., today announced details of the schools that are to be delivered in Bundle 5 of the Public Private Partnership (PPP) school building programme. An existing primary school, St Philomena’s National School in...

The Minister for Education & Skills is introducing random audits on school and Department of Education funded third level building...

The Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton T.D., and Frances Fitzgerald T.D., Minister for Children and Youth Affairs have today (24 April 2013) announced...

Social Protection Minister Joan Burton and Childrens’ Minister Frances Fitzgerald today announced that the first pilot phase of the new afterschool childcare scheme....

The Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn T.D., has today invited patron bodies to apply for the patronage of four new primary schools due to be established in September 2014...

A new international scholarship scheme, aimed at attracting top students from priority and emerging markets to study in Ireland, is being launched by the Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn T.D.The first group of 20 international students have received...

The Minister of State for Research and Innovation, Seán Sherlock TD, today attended the Cork Schools Science Awards ceremony in the Blackrock Castle Observatory. The Awards were created to publicly acknowledge and honour the Cork City and County students...