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Minister of State for Training and Skills Ciaran Cannon will this week lead Ireland’s largest ever education mission to India. He will visit New Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai, the country’s main...

The Minister of State for Training and Skills, Ciarán Cannon TD, will this week lead Ireland’s largest ever education mission to India. He will visit New Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai, the...

Education Minister Ruairi Quinn today launched new school self-evaluation guidelines to support schools to evaluate their own work and to set targets to improve teaching and learning...

The Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn T.D., launched new school self-evaluation guidelines at Sion Hill College, Blackrock in Dublin today...

The Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn T.D., announced that the Higher Education Authority (HEA) is today issuing a tender for a second phase of ICT graduate skills conversion programmes to commence in early 2013...

Minister Brendan Howlin has warmly welcomed the announcement by his colleague Minister Ruairi Quinn TD that the latest Bundle of PPP schools has been signed off on by all partners and that work will begin on sites around the country on Monday...

Education Minister Ruairi Quinn today warmly welcomed the start of construction of eight schools which are being delivered under the Public Private Partnership model. These are the first public sector projects to be funded under the PPP model since June 2010.

The Minister for Education and Skills warmly welcomed the start of construction today (Monday 12th November) of eight schools which are being delivered under the Public Private Partnership (PPP) model. These are the first public sector projects to be funded under the PPP...

The Minister for Education & Skills, Ruairí Quinn T.D. is calling on parents and students in particular to vote in the Children’s Referendum this Saturday 10th November. This is the first time that a referendum vote has taken place on a Saturday and...

Education Minister Ruairí Quinn has today published the “Report on Retention Rates of Pupils in Second Level Schools” conducted by the Department. The percentage of students who sit the Leaving Cert overall has risen by almost 9% to 90.2%...