The religious order is now exposed to more compensation claims from victims of alleged abuse. But what is the financial capacity of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit?
Creating people who can build things starts and ends with education. Yet, our system is designed to take the one-in-a-million extraordinary people and make them mediocre before they’ve even had a chance to realise the scale of their potential.
The teaching feedback platform Nurture is closing a round of funding that has attracted big names in education and tech. Its co-founder David Neville explains how predictive grades helped take its business mainstream and why he thinks its software can also help teachers in the classroom.
In 1920s America, a psychiatrist and educator had designed a way of identifying group dynamics and harmful behaviour patterns among schoolchildren. One century later, a former Irish teacher has harnessed modern technology to make it work.
The online education company is facing angry creditors for a second time. The High Court has given an examiner time to turn it around.
Based in the Dublin suburb of Clonskeagh, Skillsoft emerged from Irish tech pioneer SmartForce. The company is now weighing up several restructuring options across Ireland, the UK and the US.
Ross Hunt argues that Ireland should redirect €50 billion towards additional education funding over the next 20 years. Here is how he would spend it.
The Irish education system has remained stuck in a paper-based world and failed to grasp the challenge life-long learning. Yet we have the resources to transform it into the best in the world, argues Ross Hunt.
Where we are going as a country depends on our choice of the structural features of our economy, on the dynamic path we choose to walk. We need to remember that many of these structural choices are still within our gift to make.
AerCap boss Aengus Kelly runs a company with assets of $43.1bn. In this wide-ranging interview, he talks candidly about tax, education, business and why Brexit could be a once-in-a-generation opportunity for Ireland.
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