Boys marked down in Leaving Cert?
“These findings should reassure those who are engaged in face-to-face teaching,” it found.
Since its establishment 21 years ago CFI has provided in excess of €75m through what it terms “strategic investments” in communities.
This constituted a fivefold increase in the number of applications when compared to 2019.
Annual cost of child attending secondary school is €1,500, on average.
Credit to Julianne Corr at the Times for this entertaining scoop: The third level college that ran Ireland’s first influencer course hopes to offer the programme to secondary school students as part of their transition year studies, its organiser has said…. …Irene McCormick, the programme director, said that about 240 people had applied for the […]
The young woman was desperate to get into university. She had chosen a science course, and felt it was grossly unfair that she would be judged on her ability to write essays which would go towards her Leaving Cert points. Writing was her only weak point. Plus, she had a social life! As a veteran […]
Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has issued a very stark warning that Catholic schools are no longer welcome in modern Ireland. Despite a Constitutional provision that the Government must provide for the education of children, it is clear that the current administration thinks that it has a monopoly on the content of what children get taught because […]
A story, from the Irish Times, to lift the spirits. After all, if we at Gript can’t cheer a Professor telling a bunch of layabout students that they are illiterate dunces who don’t belong in a University, well, dear reader, what are we even for? Dr Paul Stokes, a lecturer in the sociology department, delivered […]
A reported rise of covid-19 cases in children is because of an increase in covid testing – not the re-opening of schools, according to a senior health expert. Professor Philip Nolan, who is chairman of the Irish Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group, has said that data indicates schools are a low-risk environment for contracting covid, following […]
Chuir na Sasanaigh tús le córas oideachais do pháistí na tíre ag tús na 1830idí. Ba í an phríomhchúis leis ná aigne na ndaoine a chur faoi smacht agus an Ghaeilge a bhriseadh in Éirinn. Bhí ar na páistí ‘an phaidir’ seo a rá ag tús gach lá scoile, ‘I thank the goodness and the […]
Let me begin by making a statement of the obvious. If you are a third level student from a disadvantaged background, then the chances of you having to work part time and during your holidays are significantly higher than if you were a student from one of the more economically privileged social groups. Of […]