by admin | Jan 28, 2013 | Teaching News
The Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn, TD, today launched new “Guidelines for Developing Textbook Rental Schemes in Schools”. The Guidelines provide practical advice to primary and post-primary schools on how rental schemes can be established and...
by admin | Jan 13, 2013 | Teaching News
For those teachers whose renewal of registration with the Teaching Council is due in January 2013, the good news is that the registration fee has been reduced from €90 to €65, a reduction of €25 or 28%. This fee reduction only applies to those registrations which fall...
by admin | Jan 7, 2013 | Teaching News, Website
Popular UK educational website Teaching News has selected Seomra Ranga as the first in its new series for the new year of “Brilliant Blogger of the Week”. Naturally, I’m delighted and honoured to be selected as the inaugural recipient of this weekly accolade on this...
by admin | Jan 7, 2013 | Resources Websites, Teaching News
The Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn T.D., has today announced free home access to the online edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica for all school-going children. For the past three years, primary and post-primary schools have had access to the resource,...
by admin | Jan 6, 2013 | Teaching News
I recently asked teachers/SNAs on Facebook to give me some examples of what they spend personal money on for their classroom. To say that I was amazed at the array of items listed would be an understatement. Of course I expected to see books, paper, pencils, paint...
by admin | Jan 4, 2013 | Teaching News
The Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Jimmy Deenihan TD, and the Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn TD, have jointly launched an Arts in Education Charter. This Charter places new responsibilities on Government Departments, agencies, cultural...
