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Sinn Féin councillor Thérèse Ruane has said advertisements carried on the JobBridge website that seek to employ primary school teachers for €50 a week are “exploitive and demeaning to the teaching profession.”

Westmeath County Council is to write to Minister for Education Ruairí Quinn to condemn any cuts relating to children with special needs.

Handing over zoned residential land to the Housing Agency has been described as an “absurd idea” when Galway has one of the worst housing crises in the country, that is according to Independent City Councillor Catherine Connolly.

On Thursday June 13, Gealóga, a traditional music ensemble formed as part of the Music Generation Mayo - Music Residency Programme, performed for international delegates attending the Education Committee Meeting in Castletown House, Leixlip, a Department of Education and Skills event organised as part of Ireland’s EU presidency.

In last week’s edition, the article ‘Gaelscoil Mhic Amhlaigh building to house new Steiner school’, in relation to a new primary school being established in Knocknacarra in 2014, stated that the new school being established will be under Steiner patronage.

Gaelscoil Mhic Amhlaigh in Knocknacarra is to move to a new facility, which will allow for a 50 per cent increase in pupil numbers, following agreements reached this week.

Castlebar College of Further Education (CCFE) has reacted positively to the announcement by the Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn, that the provision of the free pre-school programmes is to be doubled within the lifetime of the Government.

A new partnership model is being proposed for Robinstown as a way of advancing plans for a sports complex for the area.

With the Irish unemployment rate remaining stubbornly high at 14 per cent, Ros na Rún in association with Gréasán na Méan aims to assist job seeking Irish speakers in accessing the growing Irish language media industries. Through a one day intensive acting workshop on Wednesday May 1 budding actors have the opportunity to get their ‘Big Break’.

Parents of primary school children in the Ballinasloe and Roscommon areas have expressed mixed wishes when it comes to changing the patronage of their primary schools.