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Uncovering the fun side of science through “hands-on learning” initiatives has now been proven to translate into young people going on to third level science and technology – the graduates who will sustain and enhance future economic growth.

Fine Gael Seanad education spokesperson Senator Fidelma Healy Eames has slammed schools which employ retired teachers to provide substitute cover when hundreds of newly qualified teachers are jobless.

The bombshell that Mayo VEC is to be amalgamated with Sligo VEC as part of a radical plan agreed by the Cabinet this week to cut the number of VECs in the country by half down from 33 to 16, has left the education sector in Mayo reeling this week.

A Galway city councillor has slammed the Government for its “lack of detail” on plans to restructure the Vocational Education Committee system, a move that could have serious implications for the future delivery of vital educational services in the city and county.

Sadly we have become a figure of fun internationally. Irish jokes are once again popular because the Irish people have been turned into a joke by those we entrusted to represent us with dignity, honour and competence.

Time has a habit of dulling the images of the past. Remembering the people we love, trying to recall their faces takes a second or so longer as each year goes by, the pictures blur, the sharpness becomes fuzzy; try as we might, the tide of memory ebbs and flows and slowly goes out to the horizons of the mind.

TAKING US from the harsh realities of Baile Crua to the cautious serenity of the Spiddal bogs, Rita Ann Higgins’ new book Hurting God - part essay, part rhyme (Salmon) is a short but intense spiritual autobiography.

FORMER MEMBERS of Pentangle, as well as Beverly Martyn and Mary Coughlan are part of a very exciting line-up of gigs in The Crane Bar, Sea Road, in the coming weeks.

To mark the third anniversary of Manuela Riedo’s tragic death in Galway in October 2007, a number of events will be taking place next week.

There was no shortage of A students in Kilkenny this week as some 1,000 excited pupils flooded into schools around the county to collect their Junior Certificate results.