Archive for the category: ‘Education’

Minister for Education and Skills to address Education Committee

Minister for Education and Skills Ruairi Quinn TD will come before the Joint Committee on Jobs, Social Protection and Education tomorrow, 25th January, to discuss a range of education matters. Among the issues to be [...]

Committee on Jobs, Social Protection and Education to discuss ICT education with representatives from Coderdojo

The Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Social Protection and Education will meet with representatives from Coderdojo tomorrow, 7th December, to discuss measures to enhance the teaching of information and communications technology at primary and post primary [...]

Oireachtas Committee Your Input

Joint meeting of the Jobs, Social Protection and Education Committee The next meeting of the Joint Oireachtas JSPE Committee will be held on Wednesday 16 May in Committee Room 3 at 9.30 a.m. The agenda [...]

Schools in Meath West to lose out badly as FF/Greens slash budgets by 40% – TD English

English challenges Dempsey to spell out effect school budget cuts will have on Meath West children Fianna Fáil and the Greens have slashed school budgets by a massive €2 billion in the Capital Expenditure Programme [...]

Deputy English Welcomes Construction of New Athboy Community School

Deputy Damien English has welcomed assurances from The Department of Education and Skills that construction of a new building for Athboy Community School will commence next month. The Fine Gael Spokesperson for Small Business and [...]

Case for Second Level School in Navan

There are strong indications now that there should be a new Second Level school opened by September 2010 in the form of temporary accommodation for 1st year students Deputy English has been putting the case [...]

Lack of Primary School Places in Meath next year adds to uncertainty over pre-school places

“Parents in Meath West are finding out that their young children may end up in an educational ‘no mans land’ due to a lack of available primary school places for next Septembers term” declared Meath [...]

135 school prefabs in Meath rented out for over 10 years – TD English

135 school prefabs in County Meath have been rented out for at least ten years or more according to information revealed by Fine Gael TD Damien English Deputy English received the information after Fine Gael [...]