5 Headlines about the ESRI report on 9 year olds in primary schools

The ESRI have just released a study about 9 year olds in Irish primary schools.  I thought it might be interesting to see how the main media publications covered the story. RTE – A new study has found significant variations in how children spend their school day, according to the kind of school they attend. The […]

Something to think about Ruairi Quinn (Part 1)

After attending the BETT conference in the UK, I experienced Michael Gove for the first time.  For those of you who don’t know who he is, this is the education secretary in the UK who seems intent in driving everyone out of the teaching profession.  Last week he announced that headteachers could now fire teachers […]