Further 125 school language support posts axed [IrishExaminer]
- Published: 21 May 2011
ANOTHER 125 teaching posts for newcomer children who need to learn English are to be axed from September.
The move comes on top of 125 language support teacher cuts already announced in last December’s budget as part of a phased reduction in their numbers.
While it was planned to reduce the total number of these jobs from 1,400 to 900 over four years, half those cuts will now take effect from September.
A Department of Education spokesperson said the cuts, which will mainly affect primary schools, are being speeded up to meet an unexpected rise in teacher numbers needed at second level.
Around 160 more teachers than was allowed for in the 2011 budget are to be approved for the country’s 730 second-level schools, based on analysis of the numbers in classes during the current school year. The remaining 35 posts are expected to be found by achieving efficiencies in other schools programmes without having to introduce further widespread cuts.
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