Quinn to meet schoolbook firms over frequency of new editions [Independent.ie]
- Published: 09 June 2011
EDUCATION Minister Ruairi Quinn is to meet the publishers of schoolbooks in an attempt to stop the frequent appearance of new editions.
Mr Quinn has been under pressure from parents, teachers and welfare organisations over the cost imposed on families who have to buy new books.
As highlighted in the Irish Independent last month, new editions appear regularly even though there have been no syllabus changes in most subjects for years.
And teachers have little choice but to put a new edition on the book list because the former edition is withdrawn from sale.
It means parents may not have the option of passing down the version of the same book used by an older sibling.
The changes contained in the new editions are frequently only cosmetic and may amount to nothing more than different photos or other illustrations, or an updating of statistics in one section.
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