Students with special needs to lose 10% of required teaching [IrishExaminer]
- Published: 03 June 2011
PUPILS with special needs are to lose 10% of the resource teaching they need under the latest education cutbacks imposed because of EU/IMF staffing limits.
Schools will be notified of the move today. It could mean 300 fewer teachers working with special needs students than experts say should be provided.
As a result, tens of thousands of pupils will have to be taught in larger groups, lose one-to-one teaching, or have their special needs classes cut short.
At second level, all special needs students must have resource teaching hours sanctioned by the National Council for Special Education (NCSE).
In primary schools, NCSE approval is only required for supports for those with more serious disabilities such as hearing or visual impairment, or autism, with overall pupil numbers in each school determining additional supports for those with more common learning difficulties, like dyslexia.
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