- Read more: Ireland’s Second European Child Guarantee Interim Report 2024-2025
The European Child Guarantee is an EU initiative that seeks to ensure children at risk of poverty or social exclusion have access to key services such as early childhood learning and care, healthcare, housing, school-based education and healthy school meals. These areas are key to children’s well-being and development and play an important role in…
- Read more: Beyond access: Inclusive work placements and transitions from higher education to employment
Widening access to higher education is only part of the challenge. This paper shows why equitable participation in work placements for students with disabilities requires coordinated action across higher education institutions, employers, professional bodies and policymakers
- Read more: Menstrual Pain – Current Gaps in Irish Policy Leaving Many Menstruators Behind
Menstrual pain is a common, debilitating, yet under-managed public health issue across Ireland. Addressing menstrual pain requires policy initiatives to dismantle menstrual stigma in all aspects of public life, to reform current education in schools and universities, and to represent the multiple complex conditions that can cause this painful and limiting experience.
- Read more: The Effects of Investment in Education and Training on Productivity Growth in the European Union
Published in The Review of Income and Wealth, this paper analyzes on-the-job training’s impacts on labor productivity growth. Findings show that investment in job training does improve labor productivity growth, both directly and indirectly. Effects are strongest in industries with strong complementarities with organizational capital.
- Read more: Report Card 2026
The Children’s Rights Alliance has published Report Card 2026. Report Card 2026 is the first for the coalition (Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Independents) under the new Programme for Government: Securing Ireland’s Future and how it performed for children and young people in 2025.
- Read more: Wellbeing in Children’s School Lives – The Importance of Belonging
Framed by Seligman’s (2011) PERMA model of wellbeing and OECD indicators (OECD 2019; 2024), this policy brief concentrates on the ‘R’ for Relationships (Belonging) within the PERMA framework. Drawing insights from the comprehensive report, this policy brief underscores the importance of relationships and belonging which emerged as key indicators of wellbeing.
- Read more: Care to college: An exploratory study on care-experienced students’ educational journeys
The Economic and Social Research institute (ESRI) published a report “Care to college: An exploratory study on care-experienced students’ educational journeys”. The report is an exploratory study by Merike Darmody. It highlights the importance of combined effects of school experiences and care experiences on the post-school lives of young people. The main finding of the…
- Read more: Women and Men in Ireland Hub
The Central Statistics Office has published an update to the Women and Men in Ireland Hub. This Hub was developed in March 2024, using the latest data from both the CSO and other public service bodies, to provide a comprehensive one-stop-shop for equality data related to women and men in Ireland. The data is broken down…
- Read more: The State of the Nation’s Women and Girls
The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth has published: The State of the Nation’s Women and Girls. The report collates available data on the lives of women and girls across five key areas: demographics, health, education, employment and, poverty and social vulnerability. The report provides statistical analysis in each area and examines trends…
- Read more: Educaring for Wellbeing – A Transformative Approach for a Thriving Society?
Education is the cornerstone of our societies. It is the foundation upon which we build our communities, re/shape our values and understand ourselves as citizens of our immediate world and beyond. Education helps us to make sense of the world around us, challenging us to engage our creativity and critical thinking skills to solve problems,…
