Revealed: the payoff plans for 2,000 staff in education [belfasttelegraph.co.uk]
- Published: 13 September 2010
Northern Ireland’s education system could be hit by up to 2,000 job cuts including many teachers under Department of Education proposals, the chair of the Assembly’s education committee has warned.
The DUP’s Mervyn Storey said that teachers are likely to be hardest hit if a mass redundancy plan gets the go-ahead.
A teaching union leader stressed that job cuts would have a serious negative impact on the quality of children's education here.
Papers showing the department’s spending proposals for the next five years were discussed at last week’s education committee meeting.
On top of 188 teacher redundancies likely during 2010/11, the proposals include £253.8m to be spent on redundancy costs within schools and the department in the following four years.
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