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Students from The Pine Ridge High School have decided that having the perfect prom night isn’t the most important thing for them this year. The school’s prom committee plan to donate a large amount of their funds to help maths teacher Charles Lundell, who has cancer. “We all wanted to help Mr. Lundell out,” committee president Katie Buday, 17, told TODAY.com. “We have more than enough...

Over 27,000 secondary school teachers across Ireland are expected to protest because they are worried about the introduction of the new Junior Cert syllabus. Rallies are planned outside every post-primary school at lunchtime by members of the Association of Secondary Teachers of Ireland (ASTI) and the Teachers Union of Ireland (TUI) , who are highly concerned about the new changes. According to...

For the third year in a row, the number of students who plan to take the higher-level paper for LC maths has increased. This huge change means that nearly one in three of all LC students are thinking about taking an honours paper this year, which amounts to 17,181 students. Every year, about 2,000 pupils who planned to take the paper don’t actually go ahead with it. But even if all 17,181...

With a lot of schools forcing children to follow strict uniform regulations, there’s very little room for them to express themselves through hair and clothing. This is why children’s advocacy group Voices of Youth organised an event to inform youngsters of how they are being denied of freedom of expression and what they can do about it. The ‘What Rules Rule You’ event saw over 60 secondary...

Two representatives from Catholic youth group Pure in Heart sellotaped students by the wrists to demonstrate why they should not have sex before marriage. The students were taped together in front of a class at a Dublin school before having it torn to show what would happen to them if they didn’t practice abstinence. In demonstrating the importance of remaining chaste, the same boy was taped to...

It seems like the availability of unhealthy snacks in post-primary schools may be causing our children to be obese. The Minister for Education Ruairí Quinn thinks that secondary schools should not have vending machines that sell ‘junk food’ and plans to do something to change the current situation. The findings from a Lifeskills survey also found that the majority of schools across Ireland do...

There has been a huge improvement in results for students in disadvantaged primary schools. New data from the Department of Education found that children in Delivering Equality Schools (DEIS), are performing better in maths and reading than they did six years ago. According to a new report, gains are especially evident among students in junior classes, with their attendance levels improving...

The Department of Education and Skills has appointed Educate Together as patron to five new secondary schools in Ireland. Due to open between 2015 and 2016, these second-level schools will be located in Cork, Celbridge, North Wicklow, and Balbriggan and Ballinteer in Dublin. They plan to provide a community that will nurture each student’s academic potential while attending to their personal...

Plans to encourage outdoor learning among children will be rolled out across Ireland. The first Forest School Leadership course will be introduced to Co Wicklow and led by two trainers from the UK. The aim of this course is to help children build a rapport with the natural environment in a way that will engage all their senses. The idea to take pupils out of their classrooms once a week proved to...

A principal described his move from books to tablets as an "unmitigated disaster" when his students’ devices were not up to standards. Pupils at a community school in Laois, experienced major difficulties when school books were replaced with HP Elite Pad tablets as a way of keeping up with trends. Students experienced technical problems such as tablets randomly switching off, tablets failing to...