Minister for Education to face Oireachtas committee regarding free school transport
The Education Minister is due before an Oireachtas committee today, over issues facing the new free school transport scheme. Minister Norma Foley will take questions from TDs and Senators as many parents report not being able to access bus places for their children. The problem has been widespread…
Leaving Cert students unable to switch from pass to honours as oral exams cancelled
Leaving Cert students will be unable to switch from pass to honours Irish in light of the oral exams being cancelled. The exams will not go ahead next week as planned, due to the outbreak of COVID-19. Everyone will receive full marks for the Irish oral, which is worth 46…
Leaving Cert and Junior Cert oral and practical exams cancelled
The Leaving Cert and Junior Cert oral and practical exams have been cancelled because of the coronavirus outbreak. Students will be awarded full marks for the exams, which were due to start on Monday. It’s been a little under a week since schools closed in an attempt to stop the…
Education Minister confirms postponement of Leaving Certificate Oral exams
The Leaving Certificate Oral exams will no longer go ahead as scheduled. The language tests were due to get underway on Monday March 23rd. Education Minister and Donegal TD Joe McHugh says his department is working to reschedule the oral exams for as soon as students return to school: https://filedn.com/lglCaxamfnlV2gaMY6rU7tH/News%20Clips%202019-20/17updmchugh-virus-schools-add-clip-n.mp3
“I never liked the confidence and supply agreement” – McHugh
The Education Minister claims he never liked the confidence and supply agreement that bound Fianna Fail and Fine Gael together in the last government. As a former chief whip, Donegal TD Joe McHugh believes the confidence and supply agreement never supplied the kind of scrutiny of the opposition that was…
€330,000 announced for Donegal under Community Enhancement Programme
Education Minister and Donegal Fine Gael TD Joe McHugh has welcomed €330,000 announced to the county under the Community Enhancement Programme. It will provide better and up to date facilities for recreation, leisure and sport facilities; with a separate €10,000 in LEADER funding announced to the Erne Enterprise Development Community…
Donegal TD and Education Minister Joe McHugh to visit a direct provision centre
Donegal TD and Education Minister Joe McHugh is to visit a direct provision centre in the coming weeks to hear the views of families and young people. Last night, Minister McHugh told the Dail he was confident school places would be found for up to thirty children living in direct…