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The Minister of State at the Department of Education and Skills, Ciarán Cannon, has welcomed confirmation from Bus Eireann this afternoon that it is significantly reducing the administrative costs of the School Transport ...

Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Jimmy Deenihan TD welcomed the decision by his colleague Ruairi Quinn, Minister for Education and Skills regarding the restructuring of Vocational Education Committees today...

Confirmation that the number of VECs will be reduced to sixteen. Minister for Education and Skills Ruairí Quinn T.D. announced today that the Government had approved a revised reconfiguration...

The Department of Education and Skills has announced details of the further and higher education Student Grant Scheme for the 2011/12 academic year.Up until now, there were four grant schemes...

Education Minister Ruairi Quinn today welcomed a new OECD report which placed Irish students' ability to read computer based text significantly above the average. Irish students' scored 8th of 19 countries who...

Irish students’ ability to read computer based text such as emails and websites is significantly above the average of 19 OECD countries, according to a new OECD report. The students in Irish schools ranked 8th out...

Education Minister Ruairi Quinn today announced that 20 new primary schools and 20 new post primary schools are to be established in the next six years...

The Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn T.D., today announced that 20 new primary schools and 20 new post-primary schools are to be established in the next six years...

The Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn T.D., today congratulated more than 116,000 students following the completion of the State Examinations this week...

Irish researchers, businesses and educational institutions have received a total of €300million since 2007 under the EU’s €55billion FP7 fund, and are expected to draw down at least the same figure again before fund ends in 2013...