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May 12, 2025
Post-Graduate Diploma Programme of Teacher Professional Learning for Special Education Teachers, 2025/2026

Post-Graduate Diploma Programme of Teacher Professional Learning for Special Education Teachers, 2025/2026

May 12, 2025
Graduate Certificate in Autism Education for Teachers Working with Autistic Pupils in Special Schools, Special Classes or as Special Education Teachers in Mainstream Primary and Post-Primary Schools, 2025/2026

Graduate Certificate in Autism Education for Teachers Working with Autistic Pupils in Special Schools, Special Classes or as Special Education Teachers in Mainstream Primary and Post-Primary Schools, 2025/2026

May 08, 2025
Interdepartmental Competition for Promotion to Assistant Principal Officer (Standard) in the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission

Circular 12/2025

Interdepartmental Competition for Promotion to Assistant Principal Officer (Standard) in the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission

May 08, 2025
Interdepartmental Competition for Promotion to Assistant Principal Officer (Standard) in the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission

Ciorclán 12/2025 Comórtas Idir-rannach le haghaidh Ardú Céime go Príomhoifigeach Cúnta (Caighdeánach) i gCoimisiún na hÉireann um Chearta an Duine agus Comhionannas

May 06, 2025
Occupational Injury Scheme for Registered Teachers employed in Recognised Primary and Post Primary Schools

Under the Occupational Injury Leave Scheme, leave with pay may be granted by the employer, to a teacher who has been certified as medically unfit for work due to a physical injury sustained as a result of an accident in the actual discharge of their duties, including approved school activities; which was not due to negligence on the part of the teacher, and by some injury solely attributable to the nature of their duty which has been established by the employer as an Occupational Injury.

May 06, 2025
Update to the capturing/entry of pupil ethnicity to the Primary Online Data (POD) and the Post-Primary Online Database (PPOD).

This circular provides supplementary information on the Primary Online Database (POD) and the Post-Primary Online Database (PPOD) in light of the upcoming introduction of the National Equality Data Strategy, and adds to section 5 of Circular 50/2015. In short, the circular updates the categories of ethnic or cultural background that schools should capture when enrolling a pupil, and makes the capturing of such data mandatory

April 15, 2025
Cost Limits for Primary and Post-primary School Buildings

The Planning and Building Unit of the Department of Education has kept under review the movements of Primary and Post-primary School building costs since the Basic Building Cost (BBC) was last increased in June 2022. As a result, it has been decided that increased Cost Limits will apply from 14th April 2025.

April 10, 2025
Allocation of Assistant Principal Posts 2025/2026

The purpose of this circular is provide the revised table for the allocation of Assistant Principal Posts with effect from 1 September 2025

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