Year: 2022

Continuous assessment component main bone of contention In March Education Minister Norma Foley announced plans to change the Leaving Certificate system that will set the agenda for reform over the next decade. The changes aim […]

Non-progression rates among first-year students in Higher Education into the following academic year are continuing to trend slowly downwards from 16% almost ten years ago to just 9% among new entrants in 2019/20. New data, […]

The Government has announced that €20 million will be provided to recognised primary and post-primary schools for the purchase of books, audio books and other media for the purposes of improving their existing literacy resource […]

Funding will be provided for a new postgraduate programme to upskill registered post-primary teachers teaching social personal and health education/ relationships and sexuality education (SPHE/RSE) according to the Department of Education. This programme will provide […]

An Foras Pátrúnachta and Educate Together have raised concerns that they will be excluded from a pilot programme to transfer some catholic schools to a multi-denominational models. The two groups fear that the Community National […]

A Law to encourage the Northern Ireland authorities to promote integrated education for protestant and catholic school pupils has been passed in the Northern assembly. The law was proposed by the Alliance Party and supported […]

Labour education spokesperson Aodhán Ó Ríordáin has published a bill to end single-gender school admission policies. Deputy Ó Ríordáin said the time has come to bring Ireland’s education system more in line with international norms. […]

Dr Orla Flynn is the President of ATU, and was appointed in April 2022. She was president of the former GMIT since March 2020. The new university was officially opened on April 4th .Atlantic TU […]

People who are strongly attached to their pets were more likely to suffer mental health problems during the Covid-19 lockdown than those who are less attached, new research from Queen’s University Belfast has revealed. Researchers […]

Journalist Peter Maguire has won the Mary Raftery Prize for his feature on noteworthy.ie entitled ‘Speak or Survive: Sexual Violence Victims Still Fighting Roadblocks to Justice’. The Mary Raftery Prize is awarded annually to an […]

The new healthy ageing testbed is trialling innovative approaches to tackling isolation and loneliness in older people. Northern Ireland has the most rapidly ageing population in the UK. The Northern Ireland consortium, led by Ulster […]

A group of women from the Travelling Community yesterday graduated at a conferring ceremony at UCC having completed a ‘life-changing’ course designed to empower leadership in their community. The Level 6 Leadership in the Community […]

A Peacebuilding in High Risk Communities course from the Centre for Technology Enhanced Learning instructional designer has been awarded the UNESCO OER Implementation Award for Excellence Neill Wylie, Instructional Designer with WIT’s Centre for Technology […]

The European Commission (EC) has announced the Destination Earth initiative to creat a digital model of the Earth to combat the effects of climate change. Destination Earth (DestinE) and its development of digital earth twins […]

Wind Energy Ireland has released its March Wind Energy report, which showed that wind energy provided 33 per cent of Ireland’s electricity in March 2022. However, Ireland’s dependence on imported fossil fuels for much of […]

The IPCC released the third part of their Sixth Assessment report on April 6, focused on climate change mitigation and an assessment of methods for reducing and removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. The report […]

A report published by the consortium CIEL (Centre for Innovation Excellence in Livestock) has identified that greenhouse gas emissions could be reduced if wide scale and highly effective mitigations are adopted on farms. The greenhouse […]

To improve understanding of the impact of the North Atlantic climate system on Ireland, Met Éireann is teaming up with climate researchers from NUI Galway – Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC) to collaborate on […]

INTO President Joe McKeown has met with the Department of Education to discuss how primary and special schools could be best supported as Ukrainian families fleeing the war access education in Ireland. Minister for Education […]