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New Schools, New Thinking – All Welcome

Educate Together has welcomed the announcement by the Minister for Education and Skills of new school building projects in 2012. Five of the 56 projects planned will involve Educate Together schools.New …

Educate Together’s Submission on School Enrolment Policy

Educate Together made a submission on school enrolment policies to the Department of Education and Skills in October 2011. The submission was sent to the Department as part of the recent …

Government Submissions 2011

The last quarter of 2011 was very active on the lobbying front. Educate Together made its final submission to the Patronage and Pluralism Forum, made a detailed deposition to the …

Principals & Teachers: Take Part in a Values in Educational Practice Survey

We are circulating an online survey on values to all school Principals in the Educate Together network. This is on behalf of Dublin City University's School of Education Studies and …

Parents and Educate Together Welcome News of Additional Primary Schools for 2012

Educate Together has welcomed news from the Department of Education and Skills that new primary schools will be opened in four additional areas in September 2012, with nine more in …

Back to School: A Great Day for Educate Together!

A note from Paul Rowe, Educate Together CEOA special welcome to almost 2,000 new junior infants who are starting in an Educate Together school for the first time this week. …

Forum on Patronage Gives Educate Together Confidence for Future

Educate Together has welcomed as ‘progressive’ draft recommendations proposed today by the Advisory Group to the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism.The Advisory Group shared its reflections on the planning for greater …

Ballinteer/Sandyford Public Information Meeting

Educate Together Schools – Core Values and Ethos

Paul Rowe, Chairperson, Educate Together Paper Presented to the Marino Institute Conference on School Culture and Ethos, March 20th 2000. Introduction I would like to present to you some of the experience of …

Parents Doing it for Themselves!

We are constantly told that people are busier then ever before, that time is the new currency…. yet hundreds of parents in Ireland have been increasingly taking the future of …