Tánaiste opens new €850,000 Scoil Náisiúnta Taobhóige, Cloghan, Co Donegal [education.ie]
- Published: 04 June 2010
The Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills, Mary Coughlan TD, today opened the new €850,000 Scoil Náisiúnta Taobhóige, Cloghan, Co Donegal.
The new school consists of three classrooms, a multipurpose room, a staffroom and an office.
Scoil Taobhóige has 52 pupils and a staffing complement of three.
Speaking at the school, the Tánaiste commended the school's board of management, teachers, pupils and the local community for working so diligently bringing the project to completion.
'I'd like to say a particular thank you to the former Chairperson of the Board of Management, Fr Hugh Sweeney, who provided a local contribution to acquire the site. This area of Donegal in the Finn Valley is particularly well served by investment in new schools.
'I'd also like to congratulate the Board of Management, under Fr Ó Searcaigh, who were involved with the progression and finalisation of the project and who organised this wonderful opening today,' said the Tánaiste.
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Contract signed for campus hosting primary and second-level schools [IrishExaminer]
- Published: 04 June 2010
A SCHOOLS campus bringing primary and second-level education together in the west Cork town of Bantry is set to be finished by the end of next year.
The Department of Education expects the new home for Gaelscoil Bheanntraí to be ready for its 200 pupils by September 2010 and the new Community College should open its doors within months or even weeks of that.
The two schools are among six being built as part of the latest bundle of public private partnership (PPP) schools for which Education Minister Mary Coughlan signed contracts with Macquarie Partnerships for Ireland (MPFI) yesterday.
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Third-level staffing down but student numbers soar [Independent.ie]
- Published: 03 June 2010
MORE than 1,000 jobs have been lost in higher education over the past two years -- at a time when student numbers are rising rapidly.
New figures show that at the end of March this year, the third-level colleges had a full-time staffing quota of 20,084, down from 21,149 at the end of December 2008.
But over the same period the number of full-time students went up from around 145,000 to 155,000, and is still rising amid warnings of further cuts in staffing levels.
The Higher Education Authority has written to the heads of third-level colleges, alerting them to the possibility of more staff reductions next year. Chief executive Tom Boland said they can also expect further reductions in core allocations from the State.
Full Story: www.independent.ie
Six new schools to provide work for over 1,000 [Independent.ie]
- Published: 03 June 2010
MORE than 1,000 construction jobs will be created as work gets under way on six state-of-the-art schools.
They will be built over the next 18 months under the Public Private Partnership (PPP) scheme.
But as Education Minster Mary Coughlan signed the contract, she admitted the regular school-building programme had been hit by delays.
She said spending on the 2010 €579m programme was behind target, partly because of planning issues and the bad winter weather.
However, the minister insisted the final outcome would not be as bad as last year when €79m of the school building budget was left unspent.
Full Story: www.independent.ie
Perfect pupils have never missed day [Independent.ie]
- Published: 03 June 2010
THEY'RE a class act. School friends Emma Gleeson and Fiona Carter have achieved the remarkable feat of perfect attendance since they entered the education system 14 years ago.
From playschool, through national school and right up to the end of their secondary schooling, the two students at Dunmore Community School in north Galway have never missed a day.
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