# ruairi-quinn - Yesterday’s News
Figures released by Ruairí Quinn show that 55 people under the remit of the Dept of Education earn over €200,000 a year.
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# ruairi-quinn - Wednesday 8 May, 2013
While 328 grants have still to be processed by SUSI, an additional 1,938 students remain in limbo as the result of ongoing disputes over documentation.
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Students from Eureka Secondary School in Kells, Co Meath, took the prize with their ‘Bring Organ Donation Into Education’ project.
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An ESRI conference heard boys are more likely than girls to be absent from school and less likely to do homework.
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# ruairi-quinn - Tuesday 7 May, 2013
TV shows like ‘The Tudors’ and ‘Rome’ show that history is more popular than ever – yet, under proposed changes to the Junior Certificate, history could become an optional subject or short course. It makes no sense, writes teacher Christian O’Connor.
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# ruairi-quinn - Friday 3 May, 2013
Sinn Féin’s Jonathan O’Brien says keeping more of last year’s staff would help to avoid a repeat of 2012’s chronic delays.
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# ruairi-quinn - Sunday 28 April, 2013
In a recent broad-ranging interview, Ruairí Quinn talks patronage, third-level fees, Margaret Thatcher’s funeral and his own future.
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# ruairi-quinn - Saturday 27 April, 2013
In a recent interview with TheJournal.ie, the Minister for Education outlined concerns about homophobic bullying and the bullying of the ‘bright, pretty young person’ in the classroom.
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# ruairi-quinn - Wednesday 24 April, 2013
Both primary and secondary schools would have an online ‘preference’ system under the plans from primary principals.
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# ruairi-quinn - Tuesday 23 April, 2013
Ruairí Quinn said it is “far too early” to say if legislation will be brought to legislate for pay cuts following the rejection of Croke Park II.
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# ruairi-quinn - Monday 22 April, 2013
The four schools – due to open in September 2014 – are in Cork, Dublin Fingal, Dublin South, and Galway.
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# ruairi-quinn - Friday 19 April, 2013
If we want to reclaim the current political landscape we need to re-establish the ground rules for office holders and ensure their words turn into actions, writes Martin Critten.
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# ruairi-quinn - Thursday 11 April, 2013
With the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste unavailable, it will be Education Minister Ruairí Quinn who attends the late British Prime Minister’s funeral next week.
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# ruairi-quinn - Wednesday 10 April, 2013
Ruairi Quinn and Richard Bruton are to create extra education spaces and visa placements to provide more ICT staff.
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# ruairi-quinn - Sunday 7 April, 2013
The parents at the Mol an Óige national school in Clare were hoping to get the money from the Department of Education – but instead they’ve turned to the internet.
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# ruairi-quinn - Wednesday 3 April, 2013
The minister is to publish a bill which will curtail the “over-use of preferential treatment” in the enrolment process.
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# ruairi-quinn - Tuesday 2 April, 2013
The Teachers’ Union of Ireland also proposed the withdrawal of goodwill tasks like supervision duties.
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Things we learned, loved and shared today…
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The Minister for Education, Ruairí Quinn, was addressing the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation at their annual conference in Cork.
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The change comes after surveys were carried out in 38 towns across the country.
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# ruairi-quinn - Thursday 28 March, 2013
Plans include reducing the number of degree programmes, cutting grade bands and changing the predictability of exams.
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# ruairi-quinn - Wednesday 13 March, 2013
13 senior ministers, five junior ministers, and the attorney general are all jetting off next week to lead trade missions.
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# ruairi-quinn - Tuesday 12 March, 2013
It would be foolish to overlook the amazing opportunities social networks and other digital tools present for young people just because older generations are intimated by change, writes Dr Stephen Brennan.
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# ruairi-quinn - Saturday 9 March, 2013
The government was appointed two years ago today – meaning senior ministers now have enough service for a pension.
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# ruairi-quinn - Friday 1 March, 2013
Coalition parties are divided over new proposals to broaden the criteria for the means testing of third level grants.
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# ruairi-quinn - Monday 4 February, 2013
Teen-led campaign Watch Your Space and the Garda programme Connect with Respect were launched by Minister Ruairí Quinn and Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan this morning.
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# ruairi-quinn - Thursday 31 January, 2013
The guidelines provide information to schools on how to address mental health promotion and suicide prevention.
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# ruairi-quinn - Wednesday 30 January, 2013
The new system called U-Multirank was launched under Ireland’s EU presidency today.
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# ruairi-quinn - Tuesday 29 January, 2013
The plan sets out 12 actions to prevent and tackle bullying in Irish schools.
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Ministers Ruairí Quinn and Frances Fitzgerald will unveil the Action Plan on Bullying later today, including plans for all schools to keep a formal record of bullying incidents.
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# ruairi-quinn - Monday 28 January, 2013
The Department of Education has issued a series of practical guidelines hoping to get schools to set up schemes.
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# ruairi-quinn - Sunday 27 January, 2013
Corporal punishment was banned in schools in 1982 but is still legal in homes – despite repeated calls for it to be stopped.
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# ruairi-quinn - Sunday 20 January, 2013
New figures show SUSI is onow dealing with just 619 applications, down from a high of 55,000.
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# ruairi-quinn - Monday 14 January, 2013
Ruairí Quinn said the survey is a historic opportunity to parents say whether schools should be denominational, multi-denominational, all-Irish or something else.
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# ruairi-quinn - Tuesday 8 January, 2013
Schoolchildren throughout Ireland can now access the online version of the encyclopaedia from their home.
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# ruairi-quinn - Tuesday 4 December, 2012
It was reported at the weekend that the Education Minister had indicated that Reilly was “not up to the job” of Minister for Health.
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# ruairi-quinn - Thursday 29 November, 2012
A TV interview, planting a tree, “official business” and committee work in Mozambique are among the reasons for some TDs not voting on last night’s abortion bill.
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# ruairi-quinn - Saturday 24 November, 2012
Breaking via The Mire wire: Gardaí lack resources to monitor Love/Hate characters; HSE inquiry to proceed without actually inquiring; and student grants delayed until after emigration.
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# ruairi-quinn - Tuesday 20 November, 2012
The Minister for Education says SUSI has taken on another 50 staff this week to clear the backlog of 21,000 applications.
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# ruairi-quinn - Thursday 15 November, 2012
Ruairí Quinn has appointed a former chairman of the Revenue Commissioners to investigate the relationship between the college and companies providing services to it.
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