Teachers working in disadvantaged schools have highlighted their concerns over poor classroom facilities, class sizes, persistent stigma, and a lack of transparency in resource allocation. With ...

Some 310 schools attended by more than 60,000 students are to benefit from additional teaching posts, free schoolbooks and home supports under an expansion of the Deis programme for students at ...

The Minister for Education Richard Bruton has said a new action plan for disadvantaged schools will be published by the end of this year.

A solicitor from Co Limerick is hoping to inspire other students from DEIS schools to consider a career in law. Vanessa Blake, 29, qualified as a solicitor last year, but when she was in secondary ...

Sir, – There are major strategic gaps in the Government’s national pilot for school-based counsellors and psychotherapists. One-to-one counselling is not provided for Deis schools in large ...

The Deis school in Co Wexford – which currently only teaches first to third-year pupils aged 12 to 15 – is already in preparation for its first set of Leaving Cert students in two years.