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Sunday 29 November 2020
It said ASTI members had “serious concerns” about the health and safety of school communities.
Over 90% of the Teachers Union of Ireland’s 19,000 members voted in favour of taking industrial action today.
22 complaints were issued about the advertising which appeared on buses and in the press.
Failings in the school system increase the risk of homelessness, according to a new study.
The teen was alleged to have engaged in “unpredictable, aggressive and violent behaviour in the school”.
That’s according to the Barnardos School Costs Survey, published today.
Parents of primary school students are paying €50 less than last year, while parents of secondary school students are paying €20 more.
The student involved cannot be identified for legal reasons.
Average back-to-school costs have risen at all levels since last year.
There’s no excuse for English teachers to get less than 100%.
Physical harassment was considerably more prevalent in the all-boys school.
To paraphrase Bryan Adams, were those the best days of your life?
A study published in the journal School Effectiveness and School Improvement looked into how the school environment influenced boy’s and girls’ educational performance in secondary schools.
A new report looks at how children experiencing transitioning between school levels.
TheJournal.ie spoke to four Leaving Cert students in the countdown to the results.
Fake news, democracy and inventing the wheel – how did the first day of State exams go?
The SEC said that it would have sufficient numbers in place and did not want to “cause alarm” with the appeal.
New legislation will see the waiting lists phased out after admission reforms.
The incident occurred in Tocqueville high school in the French town of Grasse.
We spoke to a garda, a nurse and a teacher who are just a couple of years into their careers – and already disenfranchised.
Damn. That Karst landscape.
ASTI members voted overwhelmingly in favour of an industrial action.
New figures show that Ireland has one of the widest gender gaps among teachers at primary and post-primary level in Europe
AKA The Worst People.
In 31 out of 36 subjects, female exam students topped the class.
The cost of their employment is €9.5 million.
Ah, the good old days.
That mini company hustle.
And she has absolutely called them out on Facebook.
OH MY GOD DID WE HAVE ENGLISH??
There’s more to it than science, you know.
Teachers will hold their second strike on Thursday 22 January.
Thank you, teachers.
Real education is not present when rote-learning is encouraged and facilitated.
As a national average, people pay 2.6% more to live within 200 metres of a primary school.
At both junior and senior cycle.
You’ll need to know this when the points are released today…
It has prompted renewed calls from the opposition for changes to the Junior Cycle to be delayed.
Attention, newly-graduated secondary school students. This one is for you.
THE DEATH OF David Prowse, the actor who played Darth Vader, was announced this morning.
The on-screen character for which he was most famous (voiced by James Earl Jones) is often hailed as the most villainous of all movie bad guys.
But for the day that’s in it, we’re wondering if that’s a fair assessment. Today we’re asking: Who is the greatest movie villain of all time?
Poll Results:
Share your story: voices@thejournal.ie
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