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The Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn T.D., has today announced free home access to the online edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica for all school-going children. For the past three years, primary and post-primary schools have had...

The Minister for Education & Skills addresses joint Department RIAI Conference on Post Primary school design...

Irish primary school students have scored above average in major international tests of literacy, mathematics and science published today. However, Ireland did not make it into the top performing countries in any of the three tests...

The Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn, T.D., has today announced the 50 school projects which are scheduled for construction in 2013....

Changes to the curriculum in Irish in Irish-medium and mainstream schools, compulsory oral Irish tests at junior cycle, the expansion of Irish-medium schooling, and improvements in Irish in teacher education are among the major developments...

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...

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...