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One of the major talking points among 750 primary school principals attending the Irish Primary Principals Network (IPPN) annual conference in Citywest, Dublin this week is how to provide for children with special education needs ...

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ALL schools will have broadband access before the end of the next school year, giving free, 'always on' high speed links to the Internet.

Seven contractors have been appointed to connect the 3,925 schools as part of an €1 ...

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Would you or teachers in your school like to be awarded 3,000 euro? Or how would you like to supplement the Irish teaching resources in your school?

If intere ...

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THE Government was accused of gross hypocrisy last night for slashing the hours of a school's special needs assistants (SNA) just days after passing the controversial Disability Bill.

"We' ...

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MORE male students must be encouraged to enter the teaching profession to avoid a gender imbalance at primary schools across the country, Education Minister Mary Hanafin said yesterday.

Ms Hanafin raised concerns as two out of every fiv ...

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EDUCATION Minister Mary Hanafin has rejected criticism that her department has failed to provide adequate levels of support to teachers who have to deal with disruptive students.


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"Small schools face the same fate as Ireland's rural Post Offices, Garda Stations, and Banks unless urgent action is taken" according to Dr. Mark Morgan, Head of Education in St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra. "New Horizons for S ...

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Statement by John Carr, General Secretary,
Irish National Teachers' Organisation, on Special Needs Education

8 May, 2005

INTO welcomes significant increase in resources for special needs pupils < ...

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Growing bureaucracy, non-educational tasks and ever-increasing legislative demands are preventing principals from addressing their key responsibilites of managing teaching and learning in our primary schools. The serious problem ...

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IPPN statement following the address by Dr Diarmuid Martin, Archbishop of Dublin to the Irish Primary Principals' Network Conference at CityWest Hotel.

The statement that "The primary ethos of the school should be an ed ...

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IPPN Statement following Minister Hanafin's address to the IPPN Conference at CityWest.

IPPN President Virginia O'Mahony acknowledged the significance of Minister Hanafin's presence at the IPPN conference and her address ...

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IRISH students have far less access to computers and high-speed internet than those in most other developed countries because of poor Government funding, a confidential report has revealed.

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STUDENTS should be taught more languages and from an earlier age, employers organisation IBEC claimed yesterday.


Recent reports to the Government have highlighted the lack of ...

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FOREIGN languages should be made compulsory in primary schools and a wider range of languages should be available at post-primary level, the employers' body IBEC has suggested.

"Currently there are 390 primary schoo ...

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ESSENTIAL building and repair works will be carried out at a further 151 schools this summer, Education Minister Mary Hanafin announced yesterday.

The additional €8.5 million to the summe ...

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THE Information Commissioner, Emily O'Reilly, has called for inspection reports on all schools and nursing homes to be made routinely available to the public.

Ms O'Reilly, who oversees impl ...

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ANGRY parents of ten pupils attending Wexford primary schools have accused the Education Minister of rowing back on a commitment to allow their children attend a nearby secondary school.

Last February, the Depart ...

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Primary Principals are very concerned at the views expressed today by the President of NAPD, representing Second Level Principals, on standardised testing of children in Primary Schools.

For over two years a joint sub-com ...

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We are planning to introduce, in October 2005, six sets of regulations relating to the provision of nursery education and under 8s day care and childminding.

Two of these sets of regulations deal with Ofsted inspection arrangements, replacing e ...

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