Supporting education, not teachers’ salaries [sbpost.ie]
- Published: 05 September 2011
Last week, school pupils around the country returned through the gates after the long - among the longest in Europe - summer holidays.
They return to schools under renewed financial pressure, funded by a department facing further cuts in funding, part of a government that must reduce its spending.
Public services throughout Ireland will come under extreme pressure in the months and years ahead. That is part of our adjustment from boomtime to reality, and a legacy of an ocean of money thrown at public services with little thought for improving their quality. Most of the money went on higher wages for existing public servants.
But those are the mistakes of the past and they won’t be fixed in one swoop. They will be corrected by a painful process which will take years. What is vital in the educational field is that the squeeze on funding does not affect the quality of education offered to children.
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