by admin | Jan 29, 2014 | Teaching News
Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSI), in association with Scoilnet Maps, have announced a competition for primary schools called “Map My School”. Aimed at senior classes in primary schools (4th-6th classes), the Map My School competition sets out to bring map...
by admin | Jan 29, 2014 | Teaching News
The Irish Primary PE Association (IPPEA) will hold its annual conference on Saturday March 1st in Carlingford Adventure Centre. The theme of this year’s conference is “Out and About” and a variety of workshops are planned for the day to get participants moving. A...
by admin | Jan 9, 2014 | Teaching News
The Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO) has said that the new Book Rental Scheme, as proposed by Minister for Education and Skills Ruairí Quinn, is penalising schools that have struggled and made sacrifices to set up book rental schemes in the past. The...
by admin | Jan 4, 2014 | Teaching News
The Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn, plans to shortly amend legislation to give extra powers to the Teaching Council to deal with what is referred to as “poor and under-performing teachers”. At present, a teacher has to be deemed “unfit to...
by admin | Jan 4, 2014 | Teaching News
Two teachers or five SNAs – that could be one of the choices facing principals in the future if proposals by Public Spending Minister, Brendan Howlin ever come to fruition. It seems that the minister has plans to devolve funding to schools themselves and allow...
