Stay Informed on Corporate Sustainability

Author: Archie Villaflores

Revisiting the Education Awards 2026 earlier this year, Bord Bia's Library, Knowledge & Market Intelligence Team took home the Best Library Team award, recognised for a strategic insight function that transforms market intelligence into commercial clarity and lasting value for Ireland's food industry. The win sets a strong benchmark for library and knowledge management excellence across the Irish education sector, raising the standard of strategic purpose, professional rigour, and future-focused thinking that entrants will look to match when the 2027 awards cycle opens.

Author: Archie Villaflores

QQI has authorised the first English language schools under TrustEd Ireland, a new statutory quality mark following January's award to 28 institutions. Discover the opportunity for Irish education providers competing for international students.

Author: Archie Villaflores

Hercules Construction Academy has secured £310,000 in funded training awards and expanded its prison programme to seven HM establishments. The integrated training-to-deployment model is what large infrastructure clients now specify from preferred supply chain partners.

Author: Archie Villaflores

Redsquid has acquired its 17th company, pushing pro-forma revenues to £46 million against a £250 million target. An owner-operator buy-and-build without PE backing, attracting founder-run sellers through B Corp credentials and cultural alignment, is increasingly rare in UK MSP M&A.

Author: Archie Villaflores

Olive Group has opened a national IT service hub in Carrick-on-Shannon for post-primary schools. Device deployment at scale has outpaced schools' ability to manage it, and centralised national infrastructure is the only cost-effective answer.

Author: Archie Villaflores

MTU has signed a six-year Turnitin contract as more than 500 Irish students were found to have used AI unauthorisedly in 2024/25, a figure likely understated because most large universities did not record AI misuse separately from plagiarism.

Author: Archie Villaflores

ClassCover is investing €3 million in Ireland, its first market outside Australia. Ireland's schools still rely on WhatsApp groups and phone calls to source substitute cover, the same informal workflow ClassCover replaced across 5,000 Australian schools.

Author: Archie Villaflores

As a recall to the Education Awards 2026, University of Galway took home the Best Collaboration Award – Domestic (Public Good, Culture & Social Impact), recognised earlier this year for the Empathy Studio, a research-led initiative that built a sustainable co-creation model with external organisations and lived-experience contributors to embed empathy across curriculum and industry partnerships at significant scale. The win sets a compelling benchmark for collaborative practice in Irish higher education, demonstrating the standard of depth, coherence, and measurable social impact that future entrants in the category for the 2027 cycle will be expected to deliver.

Author: Archie Villaflores

Adding scaffold tower accreditation to existing IPAF certification gives PLT Training single-provider coverage of the two major regulated categories of working at height, the procurement outcome that multi-trade contractors are actively looking for.

Author: Archie Villaflores

A levy-funded public body operating below its required income threshold is supplementing its budget with government grants, and extending onshore processor training for the first time reveals where the sector's workforce pressure is now most acute.