• Get ready for a long, active summer

  Summer camps in Ireland are becoming more sophisticated, offering an ever-widening variety of ideas to keep your children and teenagers active during the holidays, writes Louise Holden p
  

• Second-level schools and the search for meaning

  Teaching Matters: The mid-19th century decision by Victorian policy makers to establish universal schooling was a truly profound new departure. For the first time in human history children would be removed for long periods of their lives from the surroundings of home and the workplace and placed in specialist institutions for the purposes of being taught. Such a development required a major leap in the public imagination and in the State's capacity to carry through such a monumental social project. p
  

• Questions & Answers

  All your education questions answered by Brian Mooney . p
  

• Noticeboard

  Open Day Senior College Dún Laoghaire:  Senior College Dún Laoghaire is holding an open day for prospective students tomorrow from 2pm to 4pm. The college offers full-time further education courses in a wide range of subjects. p
  

• In my life

  Matt Cooper , journalist, presenter, broadcaster p
  

• Teacher's Pet

  An insider's guide to education. p
  

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