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Education in the Republic of Ireland is a primary, secondary and higher (often known as "third-level" or tertiary) education.In recent years, further education has grown immensely, with 51% of working age adults having completed higher education by 2020. [1]
The first printing press in Ireland was established in 1551, [1] the first Irish-language book was printed in 1571 and Trinity College Dublin was established in 1592. [2] The Education Act 1695 prohibited Irish Catholics from running Catholic schools in Ireland or seeking a Catholic education abroad, until its repeal in 1782. [3]
A Vocational Education Committee (VEC) (Irish: Coiste Gairmoideachais) was a statutory local education body in Ireland that administered some secondary education, most adult education and a very small amount of primary education in the state.
The education system in Northern Ireland differs from elsewhere in the United Kingdom (although it is relatively similar to Wales), but is similar to the Republic of Ireland in sharing in the development of the national school system and serving a similar society with a relatively rural population.
The Leaving Certificate Examination (Irish: Scrúdú na hArdteistiméireachta), commonly referred to as the Leaving Cert or (informally) the Leaving (Irish: Ardteist), is the final exam of the Irish secondary school system and the university matriculation examination in Ireland.
History of education in Ireland (until 1922) This page was last edited on 22 January 2024, at 12:47 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Some Irish commentators consider that O'Malley's extension of education, changing Ireland from a land where the majority were schooled only to the age of 14 to a country with universal secondary-school education, indirectly led to the Celtic Tiger boom of the 1990s-2000s [21] when it was followed for some years by an extension of free education ...
The Association of Secondary Teachers, Ireland (ASTI) is a trade union for secondary school teachers in Ireland. [3] It is a member of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions . The union represents 18,500 teachers in schools attended by 80% of all second-level students.