Fee-paying schools in a different class [timesonline.co.uk]
- Published: 07 February 2010
Money talks in Irish education more than ever, as fee-paying schools increase their lead in The Sunday Times’s annual Parent Power league table. Some 80% of the republic’s top 10 schools are charging annual fees, of between €3,400 and €14,500. A year ago, half the country’s top 10 schools were fee-paying.
With state funding to these schools being cut, parents are forced to pay more for the privilege. This is the case in Gonzaga College, the boys’ school in south Dublin which tops the table for the fifth time in seven years. Its €5,030 annual fee is up from €3,400 in 2007.
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