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<title type="html" ><![CDATA[TheJournal.ie]]></title>
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<updated>2013-06-19T13:12:00+01:00</updated>
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<title type="html" ><![CDATA[Trinity to offer free online courses ]]></title>
<link href="http://www.thejournal.ie/trinity-free-online-courses-957218-Jun2013/" ></link>
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<link rel="replies"  type="text/html" >http://www.thejournal.ie/trinity-free-online-courses-957218-Jun2013/#comments</link>
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<updated>2013-06-19T13:12:00+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[TCD has teamed up with universities in the UK and Australia to offer courses online, free-of-charge from later this year. ]]></summary>
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<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Education" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Free education" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Monash University" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="trinity" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="trinity college dublin" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="university of edinburgh" />
<author><name>Hugh O'Connell</name>
<url>http://www.thejournal.ie/author/hugh-o'connell/</url>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html" ><![CDATA[EU groups calls for compulsory training for university professors]]></title>
<link href="http://www.thejournal.ie/mary-mcaleese-university-professors-955909-Jun2013/" ></link>
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<link rel="replies"  type="text/html" >http://www.thejournal.ie/mary-mcaleese-university-professors-955909-Jun2013/#comments</link>
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<updated>2013-06-19T13:12:00+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[The EU group chaired by former president Mary McAleese recommended certified and continuous training for university teaching staff.]]></summary>
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<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="androulla vassiliou" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Education" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="European Union" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Higher Education" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Irish Federation of University Teachers" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Mary McAleese" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="University professors" />
<author><name>Philip Ryan</name>
<url>http://www.thejournal.ie/author/philip-ryan/</url>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html" ><![CDATA[The cost of drinking alcohol and getting an education is increasing]]></title>
<link href="http://businessetc.thejournal.ie/the-cost-of-drinking-alcohol-and-getting-an-education-is-increasing-949336-Jun2013/" ></link>
<id>urn:uuid:83177ac9-61a6-8995-0e4d-544220993e73</id>
<link rel="replies"  type="text/html" >http://businessetc.thejournal.ie/the-cost-of-drinking-alcohol-and-getting-an-education-is-increasing-949336-Jun2013/#comments</link>
<link rel="replies"  type="application/atom+xml" >http://businessetc.thejournal.ie/the-cost-of-drinking-alcohol-and-getting-an-education-is-increasing-949336-Jun2013/feed/</link>
<updated>2013-06-19T13:12:00+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[Prices rose by 0.4 per cent in the year to May. ]]></summary>
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<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Alcohol" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="CPI" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Education" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Food" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Inflation" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Prices" />
<author><name>Sinead O'Carroll</name>
<url>http://www.thejournal.ie/author/sinead-o'carroll/</url>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html" ><![CDATA[Irish children less likely to feel they belong in primary schools]]></title>
<link href="http://www.thejournal.ie/primary-school-students-947627-Jun2013/" ></link>
<id>urn:uuid:93ad35b8-e9d8-ef4c-e966-31e953679dfb</id>
<link rel="replies"  type="text/html" >http://www.thejournal.ie/primary-school-students-947627-Jun2013/#comments</link>
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<updated>2013-06-19T13:12:00+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[A new report also found that teachers report pupils often coming to class too tired to concentrate.]]></summary>
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<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Children" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="curriculum" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Education" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Primary School" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="pupils" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="School" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Student" />
<author><name>Michelle Hennessy</name>
<url>http://www.thejournal.ie/author/michelle-hennessy/</url>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html" ><![CDATA[Over 100 school prefabs to be replaced with permanent classrooms]]></title>
<link href="http://www.thejournal.ie/prefabs-schools-944266-Jun2013/" ></link>
<id>urn:uuid:81eab9b9-d1bf-9bb2-b406-9b5a81e3846c</id>
<link rel="replies"  type="text/html" >http://www.thejournal.ie/prefabs-schools-944266-Jun2013/#comments</link>
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<updated>2013-06-19T13:12:00+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[Minister Ruairí Quinn said the new scheme will see the creation of around 360 jobs.]]></summary>
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<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Construction" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Education" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Prefabs" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Ruairí Quinn" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Savings" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="School" />
<author><name>Michelle Hennessy</name>
<url>http://www.thejournal.ie/author/michelle-hennessy/</url>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html" ><![CDATA[Parents fight against closure of special needs pre-schools]]></title>
<link href="http://www.thejournal.ie/pre-schools-donegal-941491-Jun2013/" ></link>
<id>urn:uuid:fa48a78f-13ca-fe05-6560-f9df2d904970</id>
<link rel="replies"  type="text/html" >http://www.thejournal.ie/pre-schools-donegal-941491-Jun2013/#comments</link>
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<updated>2013-06-19T13:12:00+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[A mother speaks for her son: ‘I’m disabled but I am here. I am disabled but I want to attend school. I am disabled but I’d like to live my life.’]]></summary>
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<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Donegal" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Education" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Mainstream" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Special Needs" />
<author><name>Sinead O'Carroll</name>
<url>http://www.thejournal.ie/author/sinead-o'carroll/</url>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html" ><![CDATA[More than 1,000 retired teachers back for State exam jobs]]></title>
<link href="http://www.thejournal.ie/retired-teachers-exam-supervision-939850-Jun2013/" ></link>
<id>urn:uuid:7068cd17-a9c3-16b6-67de-d5d7a2a5c486</id>
<link rel="replies"  type="text/html" >http://www.thejournal.ie/retired-teachers-exam-supervision-939850-Jun2013/#comments</link>
<link rel="replies"  type="application/atom+xml" >http://www.thejournal.ie/retired-teachers-exam-supervision-939850-Jun2013/feed/</link>
<updated>2013-06-19T13:12:00+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[Following a promise to prioritise their applications, 250 unemployed and substitute teachers have been hired by the States Examinations Commission. ]]></summary>
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<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Exams" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Junior Cert" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Leaving Cert" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="SEC" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Teachers" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Underemployed" />
<author><name>Sinead O'Carroll</name>
<url>http://www.thejournal.ie/author/sinead-o'carroll/</url>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html" ><![CDATA[Column: We must tackle the underinvestment in pre-school education ]]></title>
<link href="http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/column-we-must-tackle-the-underinvestment-in-pre-school-education-940313-Jun2013/" ></link>
<id>urn:uuid:3409af84-ad6a-1701-4e15-ee76173849c5</id>
<link rel="replies"  type="text/html" >http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/column-we-must-tackle-the-underinvestment-in-pre-school-education-940313-Jun2013/#comments</link>
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<updated>2013-06-19T13:12:00+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[Ireland has historically tries to provide education ‘on the cheap’ by affording remarkable influence to religious bodies and other patrons, so the recent childcare controversy should shock – but not necessary surprise – us, writes, Aodhán Ó Ríordáin.]]></summary>
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<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Family" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Opinion" />
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<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Primetime Investigates" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Read Me" />
<author><name>Aodhán Ó Ríordáin </name>
<url>http://www.thejournal.ie/author/aodhán-Ó-ríordáin-/</url>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html" ><![CDATA[Column: A meaningful housing policy would deal with defaulting landlords and at-risk tenants]]></title>
<link href="http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/column-a-meaningful-housing-policy-would-deal-with-defaulting-landlords-and-at-risk-tenants-939870-Jun2013/" ></link>
<id>urn:uuid:a658bfb9-7b84-6bce-8091-77e729d3959c</id>
<link rel="replies"  type="text/html" >http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/column-a-meaningful-housing-policy-would-deal-with-defaulting-landlords-and-at-risk-tenants-939870-Jun2013/#comments</link>
<link rel="replies"  type="application/atom+xml" >http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/column-a-meaningful-housing-policy-would-deal-with-defaulting-landlords-and-at-risk-tenants-939870-Jun2013/feed/</link>
<updated>2013-06-19T13:12:00+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[The rental market in Ireland is largely an amateur business led by small landlords – but, now, with many property-owners in arrears, tenants face an uncertain future, write Lorcan Sirr and Tom Dunne. ]]></summary>
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<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Education" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Eviction" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Finance" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="home ownership" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Housing" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="housing and planning" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="housing policy" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Opinion" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Planning" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Private Rented Tenancies Board" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Property" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Property Tax" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Read Me" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="security of tenure" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Social Welfare" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="standards inspections" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Transport" />
<author><name>Lorcan Sirr and Tom Dunne</name>
<url>http://www.thejournal.ie/author/lorcan-sirr-and-tom-dunne/</url>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html" ><![CDATA[And they’re off: 116,845 pupils begin Leaving and Junior Cert exams]]></title>
<link href="http://www.thejournal.ie/leaving-junior-cert-exams-gallery-938238-Jun2013/" ></link>
<id>urn:uuid:620ca9bd-fd3f-931c-38af-20d93698b5a9</id>
<link rel="replies"  type="text/html" >http://www.thejournal.ie/leaving-junior-cert-exams-gallery-938238-Jun2013/#comments</link>
<link rel="replies"  type="application/atom+xml" >http://www.thejournal.ie/leaving-junior-cert-exams-gallery-938238-Jun2013/feed/</link>
<updated>2013-06-19T13:12:00+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[It was English paper I for both groups this morning, with Home Ec and English paper II being sat this afternoon.]]></summary>
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<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Education" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Exams" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Eyes Down" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Good Luck" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="important time" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Luck" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Minister" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Ruairí Quinn" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="State" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Students" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="TD" />
<author><name>Gavan Reilly</name>
<url>http://www.thejournal.ie/author/gavan-reilly/</url>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html" ><![CDATA[Another €150 million added to Government’s economic stimulus plan]]></title>
<link href="http://businessetc.thejournal.ie/another-e150-million-added-to-governments-economic-stimulus-plan-938151-Jun2013/" ></link>
<id>urn:uuid:7f070a50-82ed-c0e3-1c47-bc850f36c77b</id>
<link rel="replies"  type="text/html" >http://businessetc.thejournal.ie/another-e150-million-added-to-governments-economic-stimulus-plan-938151-Jun2013/#comments</link>
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<updated>2013-06-19T13:12:00+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[The extra money will go toward school projects, road maintenance and repairs, and retrofitting for local authority houses.]]></summary>
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<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Budget 2013" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Capital Spending" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Education" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Retrofitting" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Roads" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Schools" />
<author><name>Gavan Reilly</name>
<url>http://www.thejournal.ie/author/gavan-reilly/</url>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html" ><![CDATA[Quinn wishes students luck in exams during “stressful” time ]]></title>
<link href="http://www.thejournal.ie/exams-ireland-education-minister-936077-Jun2013/" ></link>
<id>urn:uuid:4f939408-0c48-e124-777d-fe1043e0dfcf</id>
<link rel="replies"  type="text/html" >http://www.thejournal.ie/exams-ireland-education-minister-936077-Jun2013/#comments</link>
<link rel="replies"  type="application/atom+xml" >http://www.thejournal.ie/exams-ireland-education-minister-936077-Jun2013/feed/</link>
<updated>2013-06-19T13:12:00+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[The Minister said he is “delighted” that 4,000 additional students will sit the Higher Level Maths paper this year. ]]></summary>
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<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Education" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Exams" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Good Luck" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="important time" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Luck" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Minister" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Ruairí Quinn" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="State" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Students" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="TD" />
<author><name>Aoife Barry</name>
<url>http://www.thejournal.ie/author/aoife-barry/</url>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html" ><![CDATA[13 Leaving Cert memories that you can never leave behind]]></title>
<link href="http://thedailyedge.thejournal.ie/leaving-cert-memories-936510-Jun2013/" ></link>
<id>urn:uuid:9fd2cd73-9555-a006-6ffd-6e5cf6e6b397</id>
<link rel="replies"  type="text/html" >http://thedailyedge.thejournal.ie/leaving-cert-memories-936510-Jun2013/#comments</link>
<link rel="replies"  type="application/atom+xml" >http://thedailyedge.thejournal.ie/leaving-cert-memories-936510-Jun2013/feed/</link>
<updated>2013-06-19T13:12:00+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[No matter how hard you try to forget.]]></summary>
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<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Education" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Exams" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="lcmemories" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Leaving Cert" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="leaving cert memories" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Leaving Certificate" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="revision" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="School" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Study" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="what no plath?" />
<author><name>Michael Freeman</name>
<url>http://www.thejournal.ie/author/michael-freeman/</url>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html" ><![CDATA[Column: The countdown to Project Maths is on – what should you expect?]]></title>
<link href="http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/column-the-countdown-to-project-maths-is-on-%e2%80%93-should-what-should-you-expect-932646-Jun2013/" ></link>
<id>urn:uuid:44ec1955-6af7-9d55-8564-67fc0becb558</id>
<link rel="replies"  type="text/html" >http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/column-the-countdown-to-project-maths-is-on-%e2%80%93-should-what-should-you-expect-932646-Jun2013/#comments</link>
<link rel="replies"  type="application/atom+xml" >http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/column-the-countdown-to-project-maths-is-on-%e2%80%93-should-what-should-you-expect-932646-Jun2013/feed/</link>
<updated>2013-06-19T13:12:00+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[This week the State exams begin and Leaving and Junior Certificate students are getting ready to tackle Project Maths. John Devlin has some tips for those worried about the new syllabus. ]]></summary>
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<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Leaving Certificate" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Mathematics" />
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<author><name>John Devlin </name>
<url>http://www.thejournal.ie/author/john-devlin-/</url>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html" ><![CDATA[The 10 developed countries with the worst quality of life]]></title>
<link href="http://www.thejournal.ie/countries-worst-quality-of-life-931611-Jun2013/" ></link>
<id>urn:uuid:8c013b8a-5af5-ae77-d02e-2827a0170d20</id>
<link rel="replies"  type="text/html" >http://www.thejournal.ie/countries-worst-quality-of-life-931611-Jun2013/#comments</link>
<link rel="replies"  type="application/atom+xml" >http://www.thejournal.ie/countries-worst-quality-of-life-931611-Jun2013/feed/</link>
<updated>2013-06-19T13:12:00+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[Income, housing, jobs, education – these are the 10 countries that fared the worst in the OECD’s survey of quality of life. ]]></summary>
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<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Housing" />
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<author><name>Business Insider</name>
<url>http://www.thejournal.ie/author/business-insider/</url>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html" ><![CDATA[Technological Universities to be created in higher education shake-up]]></title>
<link href="http://www.thejournal.ie/third-level-education-930237-May2013/" ></link>
<id>urn:uuid:1f1f1bf1-c2be-ff0a-6382-7962a543328e</id>
<link rel="replies"  type="text/html" >http://www.thejournal.ie/third-level-education-930237-May2013/#comments</link>
<link rel="replies"  type="application/atom+xml" >http://www.thejournal.ie/third-level-education-930237-May2013/feed/</link>
<updated>2013-06-19T13:12:00+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[The details of the re-organisation of the country’s higher education sector were announced by Minister Ruairí Quinn this morning. ]]></summary>
<link rel="enclosure"  type="image/jpg"  href="http://s3.jrnl.ie/media/2013/05/5122012-budget-day-6-230x150.jpg" />
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<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="educations" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Ruairí Quinn" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="technological" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Third Level" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Universities" />
<author><name>Aoife Barry</name>
<url>http://www.thejournal.ie/author/aoife-barry/</url>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html" ><![CDATA[Column: What do you want to do with your life?]]></title>
<link href="http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/column-what-do-you-want-to-do-with-your-life-926402-May2013/" ></link>
<id>urn:uuid:74d9d6b5-d6a3-1ae3-69e5-fc197afbe774</id>
<link rel="replies"  type="text/html" >http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/column-what-do-you-want-to-do-with-your-life-926402-May2013/#comments</link>
<link rel="replies"  type="application/atom+xml" >http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/column-what-do-you-want-to-do-with-your-life-926402-May2013/feed/</link>
<updated>2013-06-19T13:12:00+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[Life is complicated and has a lot of choices, writes Fergus McCarthy who has some advice for this year’s Leaving Certificate students who have it all ahead of them.]]></summary>
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<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="what do you want to do" />
<author><name>Fergus McCarthy</name>
<url>http://www.thejournal.ie/author/fergus-mccarthy/</url>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html" ><![CDATA[Swedish riots ‘should serve as a wake-up call’ for Ireland]]></title>
<link href="http://www.thejournal.ie/sweden-riots-ireland-926400-May2013/" ></link>
<id>urn:uuid:dcaf1f6b-70a6-b2c2-ad47-1d4a416a93c4</id>
<link rel="replies"  type="text/html" >http://www.thejournal.ie/sweden-riots-ireland-926400-May2013/#comments</link>
<link rel="replies"  type="application/atom+xml" >http://www.thejournal.ie/sweden-riots-ireland-926400-May2013/feed/</link>
<updated>2013-06-19T13:12:00+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[The Integration Centre said that many of the same issues in Sweden exist here and that policymakers must act to address this.]]></summary>
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<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Children" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Culture" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Education" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Immigrants" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Integration" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Riots" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="segretation" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Sweden" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="The Integration Centre" />
<author><name>Michelle Hennessy</name>
<url>http://www.thejournal.ie/author/michelle-hennessy/</url>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html" ><![CDATA[13 things we learned from the CSO’s new ‘quality of life’ data]]></title>
<link href="http://www.thejournal.ie/cso-quality-of-life-13-stats-920803-May2013/" ></link>
<id>urn:uuid:89bf09fe-48f6-a0f3-098a-28d41f0fdb90</id>
<link rel="replies"  type="text/html" >http://www.thejournal.ie/cso-quality-of-life-13-stats-920803-May2013/#comments</link>
<link rel="replies"  type="application/atom+xml" >http://www.thejournal.ie/cso-quality-of-life-13-stats-920803-May2013/feed/</link>
<updated>2013-06-19T13:12:00+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[The CSO has published a wide-ranging document, covering everything from household waste to penalty points.]]></summary>
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<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Crime" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="CSO" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Disability" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Education" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Health" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="In Numbers" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Ireland in numbers" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Quality of Life" />
<author><name>Gavan Reilly</name>
<url>http://www.thejournal.ie/author/gavan-reilly/</url>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html" ><![CDATA[Column: The reality of unemployment is being masked by emigration]]></title>
<link href="http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/youth-unemployment-europe-913719-May2013/" ></link>
<id>urn:uuid:b7c71d34-bfbc-a905-91ba-d153a37d1512</id>
<link rel="replies"  type="text/html" >http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/youth-unemployment-europe-913719-May2013/#comments</link>
<link rel="replies"  type="application/atom+xml" >http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/youth-unemployment-europe-913719-May2013/feed/</link>
<updated>2013-06-19T13:12:00+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[With youth unemployment at 23 per cent, the European Union and policy makers have a collective responsibility and obligation to help the “Lost Generation”, writes Liam Aylward. ]]></summary>
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<author><name>Liam Aylward</name>
<url>http://www.thejournal.ie/author/liam-aylward/</url>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html" ><![CDATA[University lecturers agree to enter new Croke Park talks]]></title>
<link href="http://www.thejournal.ie/ifut-agrees-croke-park-pay-talks-917316-May2013/" ></link>
<id>urn:uuid:f2abd540-381e-4a6a-c923-10e1971ef8ec</id>
<link rel="replies"  type="text/html" >http://www.thejournal.ie/ifut-agrees-croke-park-pay-talks-917316-May2013/#comments</link>
<link rel="replies"  type="application/atom+xml" >http://www.thejournal.ie/ifut-agrees-croke-park-pay-talks-917316-May2013/feed/</link>
<updated>2013-06-19T13:12:00+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[The Irish Federation of University Teachers said it was up to the official side to prove that talks on a new pay deal are not just an attempt to persuade people to accept proposals that have already been rejected. ]]></summary>
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<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="croke park 2" />
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<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="IFUT" />
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<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Pay deal" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Public Sector" />
<author><name>Christine Bohan</name>
<url>http://www.thejournal.ie/author/christine-bohan/</url>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html" ><![CDATA[Column: In Ethiopia, ordinary Irish people doing extraordinary things in difficult circumstances]]></title>
<link href="http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/column-in-ethiopia-ordinary-irish-people-doing-extraordinary-things-in-difficult-circumstances-913816-May2013/" ></link>
<id>urn:uuid:be33d23f-6b14-a0e1-0020-20e91dd5b954</id>
<link rel="replies"  type="text/html" >http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/column-in-ethiopia-ordinary-irish-people-doing-extraordinary-things-in-difficult-circumstances-913816-May2013/#comments</link>
<link rel="replies"  type="application/atom+xml" >http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/column-in-ethiopia-ordinary-irish-people-doing-extraordinary-things-in-difficult-circumstances-913816-May2013/feed/</link>
<updated>2013-06-19T13:12:00+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[National Volunteering Week ends today. Here Donnacha Maguire, who is in Ethiopia, tells us about some of the work being done by Irish volunteers in the country. ]]></summary>
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<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Addis Ababa" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Africa" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Communities" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Education" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Ethiopia" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Help" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Ireland" />
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<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="world" />
<author><name>Donnacha Maguire</name>
<url>http://www.thejournal.ie/author/donnacha-maguire/</url>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html" ><![CDATA[55 public-paid educators earning more than the Taoiseach]]></title>
<link href="http://www.thejournal.ie/55-public-paid-educators-earning-more-than-the-taoiseach-913652-May2013/" ></link>
<id>urn:uuid:0ee6e389-4080-d54d-41d5-66b57f2a3637</id>
<link rel="replies"  type="text/html" >http://www.thejournal.ie/55-public-paid-educators-earning-more-than-the-taoiseach-913652-May2013/#comments</link>
<link rel="replies"  type="application/atom+xml" >http://www.thejournal.ie/55-public-paid-educators-earning-more-than-the-taoiseach-913652-May2013/feed/</link>
<updated>2013-06-19T13:12:00+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[Figures released by Ruairí Quinn show that 55 people under the remit of the Dept of Education earn over €200,000 a year.]]></summary>
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<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Colleges" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="comp:All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship (Hurling 59)" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Education" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Public Pay" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Roisin Shortall" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Ruairí Quinn" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Universities" />
<author><name>Gavan Reilly</name>
<url>http://www.thejournal.ie/author/gavan-reilly/</url>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html" ><![CDATA[Primary teachers votes for strike action if government cuts their pay]]></title>
<link href="http://www.thejournal.ie/into-strike-lrc-talks-914055-May2013/" ></link>
<id>urn:uuid:4a2d6464-738a-1a86-8f9a-66001597c6db</id>
<link rel="replies"  type="text/html" >http://www.thejournal.ie/into-strike-lrc-talks-914055-May2013/#comments</link>
<link rel="replies"  type="application/atom+xml" >http://www.thejournal.ie/into-strike-lrc-talks-914055-May2013/feed/</link>
<updated>2013-06-19T13:12:00+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[The INTO also agreed to accept an invitation to go back to the talks table with the Labour Relations Commission. ]]></summary>
<link rel="enclosure"  type="image/jpg"  href="http://s0.jrnl.ie/media/2013/05/into-strike-lrc-talks-230x150.jpg" />
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<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Croke Park" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Croke Park Agreement" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Croke Park II" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Education" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="INTO" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Labour Court" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Labour Relations Commission" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="LRC" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Sheila Nunan" />
<author><name>Amy Croffey</name>
<url>http://www.thejournal.ie/author/amy-croffey/</url>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html" ><![CDATA[Quinn proposes using child benefit funds for free preschool education ]]></title>
<link href="http://www.thejournal.ie/preschool-child-benefit-ireland-899897-May2013/" ></link>
<id>urn:uuid:1089b6a5-9613-99b9-6afa-785be4449899</id>
<link rel="replies"  type="text/html" >http://www.thejournal.ie/preschool-child-benefit-ireland-899897-May2013/#comments</link>
<link rel="replies"  type="application/atom+xml" >http://www.thejournal.ie/preschool-child-benefit-ireland-899897-May2013/feed/</link>
<updated>2013-06-19T13:12:00+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[The Minister is currently debating the issue with fellow ministers Joan Burton and Frances Fitzgerald.]]></summary>
<link rel="enclosure"  type="image/jpg"  href="http://s0.jrnl.ie/media/2013/05/2242013-action-plans-for-jobs-230x150.jpg" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Child" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Children" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Education" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Frances Fitzgerald" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="minister joan burton" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Preschool" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="pupils" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Ruairí Quinn" />
<author><name>Aoife Barry</name>
<url>http://www.thejournal.ie/author/aoife-barry/</url>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html" ><![CDATA[Children in care more likely to be ‘suspended, excluded and leave school early’]]></title>
<link href="http://www.thejournal.ie/children-ombudsman-data-care-education-898585-May2013/" ></link>
<id>urn:uuid:a1226b43-1beb-a80f-3a2f-933841baf8ac</id>
<link rel="replies"  type="text/html" >http://www.thejournal.ie/children-ombudsman-data-care-education-898585-May2013/#comments</link>
<link rel="replies"  type="application/atom+xml" >http://www.thejournal.ie/children-ombudsman-data-care-education-898585-May2013/feed/</link>
<updated>2013-06-19T13:12:00+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[“Given that there are currently 6,300 children in the care of the State – a relatively small number”, Emily Logan believes more should be done to support them.]]></summary>
<link rel="enclosure"  type="image/jpg"  href="http://s1.jrnl.ie/media/2013/05/children-ombudsman-data-care-education-230x150.jpg" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Absent" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Children" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Children in Care" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Children's Ombudsman" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Education" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Education of Children in Care in Ireland: An Exploratory Study" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Emily Logan" />
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<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Ombudsman" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="suspended" />
<author><name>Amy Croffey</name>
<url>http://www.thejournal.ie/author/amy-croffey/</url>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html" ><![CDATA[Fee-paying students more likely to go straight to college]]></title>
<link href="http://www.thejournal.ie/fee-paying-students-university-898323-May2013/" ></link>
<id>urn:uuid:341ec546-f5d9-20ee-4ff3-c18120a313bd</id>
<link rel="replies"  type="text/html" >http://www.thejournal.ie/fee-paying-students-university-898323-May2013/#comments</link>
<link rel="replies"  type="application/atom+xml" >http://www.thejournal.ie/fee-paying-students-university-898323-May2013/feed/</link>
<updated>2013-06-19T13:12:00+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[The research from the Department of Eduction says that more students from fee-paying secondary schools progress directly to higher education. ]]></summary>
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<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Education" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Fee-paying" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Further Education" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Saint Louis University Law Journal" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="school leavers" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Secondary School" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Training" />
<author><name>Aoife Barry</name>
<url>http://www.thejournal.ie/author/aoife-barry/</url>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html" ><![CDATA[Children’s Minister ‘constantly amazed’ at lack of basic services]]></title>
<link href="http://www.thejournal.ie/frances-fitzgerald-interview-2-890650-May2013/" ></link>
<id>urn:uuid:9ea69b6f-1733-fa7b-211e-1f4439458bb6</id>
<link rel="replies"  type="text/html" >http://www.thejournal.ie/frances-fitzgerald-interview-2-890650-May2013/#comments</link>
<link rel="replies"  type="application/atom+xml" >http://www.thejournal.ie/frances-fitzgerald-interview-2-890650-May2013/feed/</link>
<updated>2013-06-19T13:12:00+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[In a recent broad-ranging interview, Frances Fitzgerald talks about schools being ‘too ashamed’ to stand up to bullying, ‘unacceptable’ waiting lists and ‘bad news’ in service inspections. ]]></summary>
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<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Austerity" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Bullying" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Child Abuse" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Counsellling" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Cyberbullying" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="direct provision" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Education" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Family Law" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Frances Fitzgerald" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="HSE" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Interview" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Ministerial Interview" />
<author><name>Sinead O'Carroll</name>
<url>http://www.thejournal.ie/author/sinead-o'carroll/</url>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html" ><![CDATA[Smoke bomb goes off at Cork school]]></title>
<link href="http://www.thejournal.ie/smoke-bomb-goes-off-at-cork-school-895349-May2013/" ></link>
<id>urn:uuid:cd2b24a1-e204-d154-9a16-da86b7f48743</id>
<link rel="replies"  type="text/html" >http://www.thejournal.ie/smoke-bomb-goes-off-at-cork-school-895349-May2013/#comments</link>
<link rel="replies"  type="application/atom+xml" >http://www.thejournal.ie/smoke-bomb-goes-off-at-cork-school-895349-May2013/feed/</link>
<updated>2013-06-19T13:12:00+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[About 30 people were treated for smoke inhalation but nobody was seriously injured. ]]></summary>
<link rel="enclosure"  type="image/jpg"  href="http://s3.jrnl.ie/media/2013/05/school-6-230x150.jpg" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Cork" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Education" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Evacuated" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="School" />
<author><name>Sinead O'Carroll</name>
<url>http://www.thejournal.ie/author/sinead-o'carroll/</url>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html" ><![CDATA[Fears of repeat delays to grants as SUSI retains a fraction of staff]]></title>
<link href="http://www.thejournal.ie/fears-of-repeat-student-grants-delay-895045-May2013/" ></link>
<id>urn:uuid:b51c7c1a-b2d7-7fa8-fc6f-70460bda2259</id>
<link rel="replies"  type="text/html" >http://www.thejournal.ie/fears-of-repeat-student-grants-delay-895045-May2013/#comments</link>
<link rel="replies"  type="application/atom+xml" >http://www.thejournal.ie/fears-of-repeat-student-grants-delay-895045-May2013/feed/</link>
<updated>2013-06-19T13:12:00+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[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.]]></summary>
<link rel="enclosure"  type="image/jpg"  href="http://s0.jrnl.ie/media/2013/05/1512013-hard-times-for-students-2-230x150.jpg" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Education" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="grants" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Jonathan O'Brien" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Ruairí Quinn" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Student Universal Support Ireland" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="SUSI" />
<author><name>Gavan Reilly</name>
<url>http://www.thejournal.ie/author/gavan-reilly/</url>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html" ><![CDATA[Education Minister: ‘Do we really need 150 minutes of religion class per week?’]]></title>
<link href="http://www.thejournal.ie/education-minister-do-we-really-need-150-minutes-of-religion-class-per-week-881419-Apr2013/" ></link>
<id>urn:uuid:ff5ec843-e1b4-0da0-6324-6cb345d80d50</id>
<link rel="replies"  type="text/html" >http://www.thejournal.ie/education-minister-do-we-really-need-150-minutes-of-religion-class-per-week-881419-Apr2013/#comments</link>
<link rel="replies"  type="application/atom+xml" >http://www.thejournal.ie/education-minister-do-we-really-need-150-minutes-of-religion-class-per-week-881419-Apr2013/feed/</link>
<updated>2013-06-19T13:12:00+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[In a recent broad-ranging interview, Ruairí Quinn talks patronage, third-level fees, Margaret Thatcher’s funeral and his own future. ]]></summary>
<link rel="enclosure"  type="image/jpg"  href="http://s2.jrnl.ie/media/2013/04/rq2-230x150.jpg" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Education" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Minister Interviews" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="ministerial interviews" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Patronage" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Religion" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Ruairí Quinn" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Schools" />
<author><name>Sinead O'Carroll</name>
<url>http://www.thejournal.ie/author/sinead-o'carroll/</url>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html" ><![CDATA[Ruairí Quinn: Even conservative groups know homophobic bullying is a problem]]></title>
<link href="http://www.thejournal.ie/ruairi-quinn-even-conservative-groups-know-homophobic-bullying-is-a-problem-881565-Apr2013/" ></link>
<id>urn:uuid:ef563911-ba2c-d0a4-5ae1-e913886069cf</id>
<link rel="replies"  type="text/html" >http://www.thejournal.ie/ruairi-quinn-even-conservative-groups-know-homophobic-bullying-is-a-problem-881565-Apr2013/#comments</link>
<link rel="replies"  type="application/atom+xml" >http://www.thejournal.ie/ruairi-quinn-even-conservative-groups-know-homophobic-bullying-is-a-problem-881565-Apr2013/feed/</link>
<updated>2013-06-19T13:12:00+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[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. ]]></summary>
<link rel="enclosure"  type="image/jpg"  href="http://s1.jrnl.ie/media/2013/04/rq-230x150.jpg" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="anti-bullying" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Bullying" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Education" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Homophobia" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="homophobic bullying" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Minister" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Ministerial Interview" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Ruairí Quinn" />
<author><name>Sinead O'Carroll</name>
<url>http://www.thejournal.ie/author/sinead-o'carroll/</url>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html" ><![CDATA[‘Nothing on the table’ to provoke teachers’ strike, says Minister]]></title>
<link href="http://www.thejournal.ie/nothing-on-the-table-to-provoke-teachers-strike-says-minister-880253-Apr2013/" ></link>
<id>urn:uuid:4e9777c7-264a-30a7-631e-76a51f9796f0</id>
<link rel="replies"  type="text/html" >http://www.thejournal.ie/nothing-on-the-table-to-provoke-teachers-strike-says-minister-880253-Apr2013/#comments</link>
<link rel="replies"  type="application/atom+xml" >http://www.thejournal.ie/nothing-on-the-table-to-provoke-teachers-strike-says-minister-880253-Apr2013/feed/</link>
<updated>2013-06-19T13:12:00+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[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. ]]></summary>
<link rel="enclosure"  type="image/jpg"  href="http://s2.jrnl.ie/media/2013/04/ruairi-quinn-croke-park-230x150.jpg" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Croke Park II" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Education" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Government Interviews" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Minister Interviews" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="ministerial interviews" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Ruairí Quinn" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Strike" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Teachers" />
<author><name>Sinead O'Carroll</name>
<url>http://www.thejournal.ie/author/sinead-o'carroll/</url>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html" ><![CDATA[Students protest over delayed opening of €2.7m Kildare school ]]></title>
<link href="http://www.thejournal.ie/students-protest-over-delayed-opening-of-e2-7m-kildare-school-879442-Apr2013/" ></link>
<id>urn:uuid:92b20b80-ad5e-691c-b14b-b415e9f3a3b5</id>
<link rel="replies"  type="text/html" >http://www.thejournal.ie/students-protest-over-delayed-opening-of-e2-7m-kildare-school-879442-Apr2013/#comments</link>
<link rel="replies"  type="application/atom+xml" >http://www.thejournal.ie/students-protest-over-delayed-opening-of-e2-7m-kildare-school-879442-Apr2013/feed/</link>
<updated>2013-06-19T13:12:00+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[St Anne’s national school in Ardclough, Kildare was “completed” in December 2011 but remains vacant because minor problems uncovered during an inspection remain unfixed. ]]></summary>
<link rel="enclosure"  type="image/jpg"  href="http://s0.jrnl.ie/media/2013/04/shutterstock_74085415-230x150.jpg" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Ardclough" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Children" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Department of Education" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Education" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Kildare" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Protest" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="School" />
<author><name>Jennifer Wade</name>
<url>http://www.thejournal.ie/author/jennifer-wade/</url>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html" ><![CDATA[Inside the elite Swiss school that boards children of the rich and powerful]]></title>
<link href="http://www.thejournal.ie/inside-the-elite-swiss-school-that-boards-children-of-the-rich-and-powerful-864684-Apr2013/" ></link>
<id>urn:uuid:b3f7ae9e-5224-17d6-c0ef-e1f3c9be33f7</id>
<link rel="replies"  type="text/html" >http://www.thejournal.ie/inside-the-elite-swiss-school-that-boards-children-of-the-rich-and-powerful-864684-Apr2013/#comments</link>
<link rel="replies"  type="application/atom+xml" >http://www.thejournal.ie/inside-the-elite-swiss-school-that-boards-children-of-the-rich-and-powerful-864684-Apr2013/feed/</link>
<updated>2013-06-19T13:12:00+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[Former students include the last Shah of Iran, Prince Rainier of Monaco and assorted members of wealthy US families Rockefellers and Rothschilds.]]></summary>
<link rel="enclosure"  type="image/jpg"  href="http://s3.jrnl.ie/media/2013/04/le-rosey-630x332.jpg" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Aga Khan" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Bern" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Boarding School" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Dodi Al Fayed" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Education" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="institut le rosey" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="international school" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="King Albert" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="prince raineier" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="rockefellers" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="rolle" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="rothschilds" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="School" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="shah" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Swiss" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Switzerland" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="top class" />
<author><name>Business Insider</name>
<url>http://www.thejournal.ie/author/business-insider/</url>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html" ><![CDATA[College offers online course in what it means to be Irish]]></title>
<link href="http://www.thejournal.ie/exploring-irish-identity-hibernia-college-865710-Apr2013/" ></link>
<id>urn:uuid:77bf667e-636e-39a5-40c1-dd92f7eee7b6</id>
<link rel="replies"  type="text/html" >http://www.thejournal.ie/exploring-irish-identity-hibernia-college-865710-Apr2013/#comments</link>
<link rel="replies"  type="application/atom+xml" >http://www.thejournal.ie/exploring-irish-identity-hibernia-college-865710-Apr2013/feed/</link>
<updated>2013-06-19T13:12:00+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[Free open online course allows students here – and abroad – to explore Irish identity.]]></summary>
<link rel="enclosure"  type="image/jpg"  href="http://s3.jrnl.ie/media/2013/04/green-clover-230x150.jpg" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Academia" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Education" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="hibernia college" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="identity" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Ireland" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Irish identity" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Irishness" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="mooc" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Online" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="the gathering" />
<author><name>Susan Daly</name>
<url>http://www.thejournal.ie/author/susan-daly/</url>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html" ><![CDATA[Column: Ireland’s educational system is the most unjust structure in our society today]]></title>
<link href="http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/irish-education-equality-857107-Apr2013/" ></link>
<id>urn:uuid:096b934c-d4f8-2528-18c8-58e2832671f4</id>
<link rel="replies"  type="text/html" >http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/irish-education-equality-857107-Apr2013/#comments</link>
<link rel="replies"  type="application/atom+xml" >http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/irish-education-equality-857107-Apr2013/feed/</link>
<updated>2013-06-19T13:12:00+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[The fundamental role the educational system plays today is determining a young person’s future life choices, so if there is to be equal opportunity, then we need to tackle equal access for all, writes Fr Peter McVerry.]]></summary>
<link rel="enclosure"  type="image/jpg"  href="http://s0.jrnl.ie/media/2013/04/shutterstock_99407126-230x150.jpg" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Academic" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="ACCESS TO EDUCATION" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Children" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Education" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Equality" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Fee-paying" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Homelessness" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Leaving Certificate" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="LIFE PROSPECTS" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Opinion" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Peter McVErry" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="points" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="PROBLEM CHILDREN" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Read Me" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Read mes" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Stress" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Studying" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Suicide" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Support" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Teachers" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="upbringing" />
<author><name>Peter McVerry</name>
<url>http://www.thejournal.ie/author/peter-mcverry/</url>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html" ><![CDATA[How do you stop your water bottle leaking onto your iPad?]]></title>
<link href="http://businessetc.thejournal.ie/student-enterprise-awards-invention-855715-Apr2013/" ></link>
<id>urn:uuid:4f8218c4-0660-e559-2575-ae5766f4e6a9</id>
<link rel="replies"  type="text/html" >http://businessetc.thejournal.ie/student-enterprise-awards-invention-855715-Apr2013/#comments</link>
<link rel="replies"  type="application/atom+xml" >http://businessetc.thejournal.ie/student-enterprise-awards-invention-855715-Apr2013/feed/</link>
<updated>2013-06-19T13:12:00+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[Hundreds of secondary school students are creating businesses for national entrepreneurship final. This little invention is just one of the entries.]]></summary>
<link rel="enclosure"  type="image/jpg"  href="http://s3.jrnl.ie/media/2013/04/aquasnap-230x150.jpg" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="business studies" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="business world" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Education" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="enterprising" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Entrepreneurs" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="School" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Start Ups" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="student enterprise" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Students" />
<author><name>Susan Daly</name>
<url>http://www.thejournal.ie/author/susan-daly/</url>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html" ><![CDATA[‘Unworkable’: Shatter rejects vetting idea from teachers]]></title>
<link href="http://www.thejournal.ie/teacher-vetting-857718-Apr2013/" ></link>
<id>urn:uuid:70b29de4-4b22-bd61-34f4-4025864a67bf</id>
<link rel="replies"  type="text/html" >http://www.thejournal.ie/teacher-vetting-857718-Apr2013/#comments</link>
<link rel="replies"  type="application/atom+xml" >http://www.thejournal.ie/teacher-vetting-857718-Apr2013/feed/</link>
<updated>2013-06-19T13:12:00+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[Around 42,000 serving teachers will have to be vetted retrospectively under new legislation, which one teachers’ union says will create long delays. ]]></summary>
<link rel="enclosure"  type="image/jpg"  href="http://s2.jrnl.ie/media/2013/04/teacher-vetting-230x150.jpg" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Alan Shatter" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Education" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Justice Minister" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="national vetting bureau" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Not happening" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Teachers" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="TUI" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="vetting" />
<author><name>Christine Bohan</name>
<url>http://www.thejournal.ie/author/christine-bohan/</url>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html" ><![CDATA[Ruairí Quinn: School enrolment to be ‘more structured, fair and transparent’]]></title>
<link href="http://www.thejournal.ie/quinn-school-enrolment-education-854621-Apr2013/" ></link>
<id>urn:uuid:069dc6df-b455-333f-57d9-15a9ee6b952a</id>
<link rel="replies"  type="text/html" >http://www.thejournal.ie/quinn-school-enrolment-education-854621-Apr2013/#comments</link>
<link rel="replies"  type="application/atom+xml" >http://www.thejournal.ie/quinn-school-enrolment-education-854621-Apr2013/feed/</link>
<updated>2013-06-19T13:12:00+01:00</updated>
<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[The minister is to publish a bill which will curtail the “over-use of preferential treatment” in the enrolment process.]]></summary>
<link rel="enclosure"  type="image/jpg"  href="http://s1.jrnl.ie/media/2013/04/quinn-school-enrolment-education-2-230x150.jpg" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Department of Education" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Education" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Education Act of 1998" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Education Minister" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="Ruairí Quinn" />
<category scheme="http://www.thejournal.ie"  term="school enrolment" />
<author><name>Paul Hyland</name>
<url>http://www.thejournal.ie/author/paul-hyland/</url>
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