The Minister of Education confirmed that schools will reopen as planned. In a statement, Norma Foley said she wanted to "reassure" parents and guardians that plans are in place to reopen schools from late August.

The principal of Owenabue Educate Together National School (ETNS) has said they are delighted to have secured a premises for the coming school year and the two years after that but said that in the long-term they will need a purpose-built, permanent ...

OUTGOING ASTI President Ann Piggott will embark on a new challenge in September when she takes up a teaching position in Cork secondary school Coláiste Éamann Rís.

A CORK TD is imploring the Government to reverse what he has described as a “dangerous initiative” to allow English Language Education (ELE) schools to resume in-person classes from tomorrow.

THE Cork Life Centre board has withdrawn from talks with the Department of Education following a lack of “progress” over the “red line issue” of staff retention.

HUNDREDS have signed a petition urging the Minister for Education to fund the “much loved, much needed” Cork Life Centre amid fears about its future.

Munster Technological University (MTU) has secured €200,000 in EU funding through a pilot programme that aims to boost innovation and entrepreneurship at institutional level in higher education institutions.

TRINITY’S first female provost, Professor Linda Doyle has been named as the Cork Person of the Month for July for her inspiring contributions to education both at home and abroad.

CORK student Suneet Mahajan has captured a silver medal at the International Olympiad in Informatic (IOI).

THE Taoiseach has said Ireland is "fully on target" to see schools reopening in September.

FEARS have been raised about the eligibility of college students to avail of grant funding for the forthcoming year amid fears their pandemic unemployment payments (PUP) could push them over the threshold.

John Bohane talks to Asha Woodhouse, the incoming president of University College Cork’s Students’ Union, about her plans for the role, which include a return to campus for students and tackling accommodation issues

SCHOOLS must be given clarity on whether a grant for Covid-19 cleaning supports for schools will be continued for the next school year. That is according to a West Cork school principal who is concerned that a decision has not yet been made on it.

OVER 150 young people in Cork have been honoured for their participation in the We Are Cork Youth Challenge.

CORK primary school Our Lady of Lourdes NS Ballinlough held a special awards ceremony this week in recognition of their success in the national Simply Blue Group’s renewable energy poster competition.

SIGNIFICANT refurbishment and renovation works are to take place at a Mayfield school. The Department of Education has approved funding for works at St Killian’s Special School.

SEPTEMBER 2021 will see the amalgamation of Sunday’s Well Girls’ and Boys’ national schools, under the new name of Strawberry Hill. Sunday’s Well GNS was one of the first national schools to be built in Cork when it was established in 1835.

NORTH Monastery Primary School pupils walked out the gates of the school with pride following their graduation after what has been “a very difficult year”.

ST Vincent's Primary School Deputy Principal Maeve O'Leary will retire after 43 years of distinguished service at the Cork city school on Wednesday, June 30. Ms O’Leary started teaching in St Vincent’s national school in September 1978.

16 Cork schools, located throughout the city and county, have been selected for inclusion in the Safe Routes to School (SRTS) Programme to support walking and cycling infrastructure for primary and post-primary schools.

John Bohane speaks with Jessica Mason-Little about the West Cork Sudbury School, where there is no prescribed curriculum or homework and where pupils have a say

THE Minister for Social Protection, Heather Humphreys has announced that funding for the School Meals Programme will continue throughout the summer holidays.

TWO Cork schools are to benefit from a funding boost from the Department of Education. Coláiste an Spioraid Naoimh secondary school has been granted funding under the Emergency Works Scheme for external environmental projects.

Local families have been credited for the role they played in getting an Irish unit sanctioned for Gaelcholáiste Mhic Shuibhne at Terence MacSwiney Community College in Knocknaheeny.

The long awaited tender for the Carrigtwohill Community College and two new primary schools Scoil Chliodhna CNS & Scoil Mhuire Naofa, Carrigtwohill has been approved by the Department of Education.

SHANE Fennessy recently commenced his role as the new principal of Cloghroe National School. The Waterford native started in his new role three weeks ago following the retirement of the previous principal, Emma Dineen.

CORK TD Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire has called on the Minister for Education Norma Foley to make a statement on concerns which have been raised about the Leaving Certificate oral exams.

AN Taoiseach Micheál Martin joined staff and students at Terence MacSwiney Community College in Knocknaheeney to honour 12 second-year students who won the prestigious Joe McDonagh Award in 2020.

CORK students commenced their Leaving Certificate examinations today with English paper one and home economics. Jim O’Sullivan, the principal of Nagle Community College, in Mahon, said his students were pleased with their first day.

THE Leaving Certificate commenced this morning in secondary school centres nationwide with English Paper 1 the first exam. ASTI President Ann Piggott sent a message of good luck to the candidates sitting the 2021 Leaving Cert written exams.

“THEY are ready to start. They need to get through the exams and then they can move on with the next stage in their lives”, said Coláiste an Chroí Naofa school principal Colm Ó Corcora as his students prepare to start their State examinations.

TAOISEACH Micheál Martin met North Monastery Primary School’s first junior infant girl on Tuesday in what was described as a “historical moment”.

MINISTER for Education Norma Foley TD and Minister of State for Special Education and Social Inclusion Josepha Madigan TD have published the Department of Education’s Statement of Strategy, covering the period 2021-2023.

SIXTH class pupils from Rochestown Educate Together NS recently won the overall ECO-UNESCO Young Environmentalist Award following their innovative project on sustainability.

IN celebration of World Pride Month, Deliveroo is partnering with an award-winning Irish author and burger restaurant, Wowburger to offer free LGBTQ children’s books for young people in Cork.

A number of parents in Cork have voiced their worry and frustration that, with fewer than three months left until the new school year starts, they still do not have confirmation of a school place for their children.

CORK student Anna Jakobek is celebrating after being accepted on the Washington Ireland Programme (WIP), a summer educational programme that begins on Monday.

CONCERNS have been raised that the Government’s decision to delay the release of the Leaving Cert results will put unnecessary pressure on students who plan to go to college.

THE Acting Director of Public Health for the Cork Kerry region Dr Anne Sheahan has issued words of advice for this year’s Leaving Cert students, their families and friends.

ANY PROPOSED amalgamation of three Northside secondary schools has been subject to criticism from parents of students attending one of the schools involved.

CORK students will receive their Leaving Certificate results on Friday, September 3.

THERE was great excitement in Scoil Mhuire Ballincollig this week as Irish Olympian and former student Aoife Cooke raised the school's Active School Flag and the Health Promoting School Flag.

John Bohane speaks to Cork Life Centre director, Don O’Leary, about their work and how they are set to benefit from significant funding.

CORK secondary school Coláiste an Phiarsaigh has received the all-clear from the Department of Education to proceed with plans for a major development and extension to the school.

NORTH Monastery Secondary School has recently fitted RT Smart Data sensors throughout the building to measure CO2, temperature, humidity and to assess virus risk in their classrooms.

“Be part of a community. Stay connected with each other. ”That was one of the parting messages from Kieran Golden, principal of Mayfield Community School to sixth-year pupils at the school as they celebrated their graduation last week.

PUPILS of a Cork school hit by Covid-19 at every class level have started returning to school in recent days.

THERE was great excitement in Scoil Mhuire gan Smál secondary school this morning as the sod was turned for their new secondary school in Blarney.

A TEAM of five students from St Aloysius College in Carrigtwohill have been announced as the Overall Winners of the 2021 Certified Irish Angus School’s Competition.

THE president of the Association of Secondary Teachers, Ireland, is urging Leaving Certificate students not to do anything which could put their plans to sit the exams in jeopardy.