Applications are invited for a unique degree course which sees students receiving an incremental salary over three years of study, and tuition fees paid.

A sexual harassment complaint against a lecturer who showed a female colleague a research paper on the sexual activities of bats has been upheld.

From September 2010, Marino Institute of Education will deliver courses for the 4-year B.Ed degree and the H.Dip in Ed (Primary) on the Marino campus.

Athlone Institute of Technology has become the first higher education institution in Ireland to sign a collaboration agreement with the ISPCA.

As the number of full time students in Ireland reaches the million mark for the first time in the history of the State, new teaching positions come on stream.

An increasing number of primary school principals are retiring early due to the growing administrative burden and lack of middle management structure.

Separate custodial sentences for two parents who failed to ensure that their teenagers attended school has been criticised by the Penal Reform Trust.

Project Maths is an NCCA led project which signifies the most fundamental change to maths teaching and learning at second level since the 1960s.

Minister for Education Mary Coughlan has written to College Heads asking them to modify the entry requirement of a pass in higher level maths.

The Net Visionary Awards will be announced on Thursday, May 20, at an awards ceremony to be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Dublin.

Set in the Dublin Mountains amidst beautiful scenery, Pine Forest Art Centre is famous for providing courses for children and young people which combine creativity with fun.

A new educational DVD gives post primary students a whistle stop tour of the European institutions and how they work from an Irish perspective.

Stíl saintréitheach á cleachtadh ag Laoise Ní Chomhraí agus Lára Nic Oireachtaigh, údair na leabhar nua seo do pháistí.

INTO president Máire Ní Chuinneagáin warned delegates that “economic colonialism may be more difficult to overthrow than political and military colonialism”.

Minister Coughlan told delegates at the INTO conference that we are not “out of the woods”, we have “more to do to stabilise our public finances”.

“You gave me the extraordinary honour and immense privilege of leading the INTO as general secretary for the last decade… I will be supporting you from the stands.”

The Annual Delegate Conference of the Irish Federation of University Teachers (IFUT) was held in the Gresham Hotel, Dublin, on April 24.

Addressing the IFUT conference, Mike Jennings spoke of the anger and shame of Irish people, and the sense of belittlement of public sector workers.

“IFUT advises members not to co-operate with work load management or full economic costing [FEC] models that are not negotiated and agreed with the union.”

Kieran Mulvey, chief executive of the Labour Relations Commission, was the first general secretary of IFUT - appointed almost 35 years ago at the age of 24.