Published: 05 August 2011

Quinn urged to focus on teacher numbers and abandon exam reform

SEÁN FLYNN, Education Editor

MINISTER FOR Education Ruairí Quinn should jettison radical plans for exam reform and instead focus on preserving teacher numbers in schools, a teacher union leader has said.

Amid controversy about Government plans to increase class size, Peter MacMenamin of the Teachers’ Union of Ireland said the education system should “effectively tread water” and abandon plans to introduce expensive programmes.

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