Offering a new approach to mainstream education, a range of schools have opened across the country with a focus on child-directed learning. So how does a system without a curriculum, principal and ...

My daughter turns 19 next month. She isn’t sure what she wants to do after school and is having trouble motivating herself ...

IS IT a bore for the kids, another layer of labour for frazzled mums — or a crucial route to academic success? Children’s homework and the time it takes are problems for parents — homework is ...

There’s a notable change in the mood in this house since homework returned. (The kids aren’t that impressed either.) Goodbye free and easy evenings of summer; we’re back to the days of kitchen table ...

Pandemic anxieties in my therapy room have largely been replaced with the worries of a pending nuclear war. But there has also been a return of some old concerns. One such theme that has come up this ...

There is little evidence to suggest that school homework in its current form has any real benefit, according to a primary school principals’ group. In a submission paper to the Joint Oireachtas ...