The Latest Breaking News from Education

Officials of the State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (SCPCR) are planning to take up a month-long drive against child labour from June 1. The commission will launch a special drive on implementation of Right To Education (RTE) Act, 2009, from July 1 to 31, said SCPCR Chairman Kesali…

The Union Higher Education Ministry has discontinued the ‘Shiksha Puraskar’, launched by the Centre in 1992 for encouraging original writings in Hindi. The decision is part of the Union Home Ministry’s move to rationalise various awards instituted by the Centre.

Unions have hit out after £39m was splurged on public information campaigns, including one aimed at recruiting school and college staff - enough to pay 1,500 teachers

Catholic Education director concerned Calvary Hospital sets precedent.

Budget 2023 makes childhood education cheaper and boosts teacher pay, but long delays in rolling out new policy has people in the sector scratching their heads

Education Minister Norma Foley, Justice Minister Simon Harris, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Tánaiste Micheal Martin have all condemned the attack on a young teenager in Navan earlier this week.

Jeremy Miles said tackling workload of school staff was "a priority"

Education Minister Norma Foley said that she accepted that people may have different views on the review of the SPHE Junior Cert programme.

All the major education unions are threatening to coordinate walkouts in the autumn term if school staff back strike action, in a major escalation of the fraught dispute over teachers' pay

A series of textbooks that seeks to enrich the learning experience of school students under the Kerala State syllabus through art education is yet to gain the intended traction.

Plummeting pupil numbers are pushing inner city schools to the brink of collapse. As young families flee the capital in record numbers, Katie Strick reports on the frightening consequences for education and the economy