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School tours are going downhill
Thousands of pupils have headed off on school trips, spending
their Easter holidays in some far-flung location. But is there any
educational bang for their parents' bucks? p
School tours: sans frontiers?
One Dublin national school with a long history of overseas travel was forced to discontinue its annual trip to Paris due to its changing student profile. p
Educating faithfully
After more than three decades in a role that has become increasingly challenging in recent years, an optimistic Monsignor Dan O'Connor is retiring as head of the Catholic Primary School Managers' Association p
Putting an end to the sum of all fears
Brian Mooney answers your questions p
Burying the bad news on class size
THIS month's announcement to primary schools that class size promises in the Programme for Government will be broken comes right out of the Jo Moore book of media management. p
School's out again - in May
TEACHER'S PET: Remember all that talk about how the new common school year would make things easier for working parents? p
Noticeboard
University College Cork Science Public Lecture Series: Complementary and Alternative Medicine - Holistic Healing or Noxious Nonsense? is the title of a lecture by Colin Bradley, professor of general practice, UCC tomorrow at, 8pm in Boole IV Lecture Theatre. p
2 COOL FOR SKOOL?
CATHAL MacCOILLE, BROADCASTER p
