Friday 9th November 2012
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...
Thursday 8th November 2012
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%...
Friday 2nd November 2012
The Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn T.D., is calling on parents in Trim to complete the survey on primary school patronage before the 9th November deadline. In a new initiative, launched by Minister Quinn last month, parents of pre-school...
Monday 22nd October 2012
Ministers Ruairí Quinn and Pat Rabbitte joined forces today to launch the new ‘Energy in Education’ initiative to help schools manage energy costs...
In a new initiative, parents in a number of selected areas are being asked what patrons they would like to see running their local primary schools. Earlier this year, the Advisory Group to the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector...
Thursday 18th October 2012
18th October 2012 Tourism Minister Leo Varadkar and Education Minister Ruairí Quinn today launched a new schools...
Friday 5th October 2012
The Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn T.D., today published the Education and Training Boards Bill which will provide for the establishment of 16 Education and Training Boards (ETBs), replacing the current 33 Vocational...
Thursday 4th October 2012
I want to thank the NCCA for the opportunity to come to their conference today to speak about Junior Cycle reform....
The Minister of State for Research and Innovation, Seán Sherlock TD, has welcomed today’s announcement by Minister Quinn of major reform of the Junior Cycle...
Education Minister Ruairi Quinn today announced a radical reform of the Junior Certificate. Plans unveiled today will see students rather than examinations at the centre of the new approach to...
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