Education council says up to 300 special needs jobs may be cut [IrishTimes]
- Published: 12 March 2010
THE STATE body conducting a review into the allocation of special needs assistants to schools has said it estimates that 200 to 300 assistants will lose their jobs.
But the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) insisted yesterday that the review, ordered by Minister for Education Batt O’Keeffe, was not a cost-cutting exercise or a change in policy.
“In conducting the review there was absolutely no change in policy . . . an important factor in the allocation of resources, unlike other areas, is there is no cap on [assistant] numbers or financial cap,” Pat Curtin, council chief executive, told the Oireachtas committee on education and science.
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