All second level schools are to get high speed (100Mbps) broadband, the Minister for Communications, Energy & Natural Resources, Pat Rabbitte TD and the Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn TD announced this week.
The national roll-out will be completed over three stages with 200 schools being connected by September 2012, a further 200 being connected next year and the remaining 250 schools being connected in 2014.
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Texaco Art
Seven different categories, including one for special needs students. Cash prizes. Closes 24 February 2012
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A number of new quizzes aimed at Junior Cert Science were added to our Quizzes site recently. Here are three from across the curriculum:
Food
Metals
The Respiratory System

Britannica Spotlights

The students section of Encyclopaedia Britannica contains some really useful in-depth sections on topics relevant to education. Among the topics featuring are: Guide to Shakespeare; Guide to the Nobel Prize; 300 Women Who Changed the World; Reflections on the Holocaust and Thunderstorms and Tornadoes.
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