• The students aren't revolting: how the good times killed the spirit

  The Union of Students in Ireland has championed many causes over the past 50 years, but all that has changed, changed utterly. Today's students are more concerned with getting their first Opel Astra than changing the world, argues Steven Conlon p
  

• Stable blend of ancient and modern the business of Glenstal

  If you're expecting to read about a harsh, parsimonious, monastic regime in a school hooked on tradition, think again. As they celebrate their 75th anniversary, Louise Holden talks hip-hop classes and crocodile kebabs with the monks and students of Glenstal Abbey p
  

• In praise of Glenstal

  Despite the charge of elitism, Glenstal should be celebrated as a provider of liberal Catholic education, writes former pupil Kevin O'Sullivan p
  

• Lessons from a classroom with a view on the whole world

  Teaching matters: At a meeting in Diswellstown in Dublin 15 in March last year on the issue of school places, a number of parents stated that places which had been promised to their children in the local school had now been withdrawn because they were not Catholic. p
  

• 2 cool 4 school?

  Entrepreneur Brody Sweeney tells it how it was p
  

• Teacher's pet

  An insider's guide to education p
  

• Questions and answers

  All your education questions answered by Brian Mooney p
  

• Noticeboard

  Adult Education Open Evening at Milltown Institute Milltown Institute is holding an adult education open evening, today from 6pm to 9pm. There will be a short introductory presentation about the institute at 6.15pm and again at 7.15pm, but people are welcome to drop in at any time during the evening. Milltown Institute, Ranelagh, Dublin 6. Tel: 01-2776352, www.milltown-institute.ie p
  

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