Childhood Professionals are taking to the streets today calling for increased investment in early childhood care and education — including a Government backed payscale for the early years workforce. … [Read more...]
Ireland Education News
Construction of New Schools
Ministers Announce Construction of Four New Schools Through Public Private Partnership . Building has commenced this week on four new post-primary schools under Schools Bundle 4 of the Government's Public Private Partnership (PPP) Programme. The schools and sports pitches will be built by BAM on greenfield sites and … [Read more...]
Additional Fulbright Awards Available
Colleen Dube, Executive Director of The Fulbright Commission and Dr. Attracta Halpin, Registrar of the National University of Ireland signed a memorandum of understanding to enable PhD candidates from a NUI Constituent University or other NUI member Institution to travel to the United States on a Fulbright Award to … [Read more...]
Higher education in Ireland
Higher education in Ireland is competing very well internationally and graduate employment has bounced back to pre-crisis levels, shown in a major review published this week. This is against a difficult economic background and comes at a time of rapidly increasing student numbers. … [Read more...]
Teachers Risk Removal from Register
1,071 teachers face being removed from the Register of Teachers by the Teaching Council because they have failed to renew their registration. … [Read more...]
Irish Education Show Improvements
Ireland's results in the latest OECD PISA Report show encouraging signs of improvements within the education system, according to the American Chamber of Commerce Ireland. … [Read more...]
US Study Options at Top Irish Universities
University students interested in studying abroad in Europe now have new program options at top-ranking universities in Northern Ireland and Ireland through International Studies Abroad. Beginning in spring 2012, International Studies Abroad (ISA), one of the leading study abroad program providers in the United … [Read more...]