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Education Minister Ruairí Quinn today secured Cabinet approval to continue to pursue a 50:50 sharing of the costs of the redress process between the religious congregations and the State...

The Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn TD, today secured Cabinet approval to continue to pursue a 50:50 sharing of the costs of the redress process between the religious congregations and the State...

The Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn T.D., today announced that an international design competition for Irish primary school buildings is to be launched in September. Speaking at the annual awards ceremony of the Royal...

Public Expenditure Minister Brendan Howlin today announced an additional investment of €150 million in Exchequer capital funding...

The Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn, T.D., today announced an additional € 50 million investment in new...

The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney, was delighted to announce today, that his Department and Bord Bia’s initiative of proactively promoting a healthy eating policy for school going children through the Food Dudes...

The Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn T.D., has today invited patron bodies to apply for the patronage of eight new post-primary schools due to be established from 2015 and 2016. The eight new schools will be in the following areas...

The Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn T.D., today officially opened the €5.7 million extension and refurbishment at Meanscoil Iognáid Rís, Naas, Co Kildare...

Frances Fitzgerald TD, Minister for Children & Youth Affairs has today welcomed the increased debate in recent days over the possible provision of a second free pre-school year. The Minister also expressed her commitment to deliver improvements in...

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 ...