High on aspirations, low on funds [IrishTimes]
- Published: 13 September 2011
Ruairí Quinn has been the most reforming Minister for Education in a generation, backing change to the Junior and Leaving Cert, the CAO, school patronage and much else. But how has Quinn changed the culture of his department, and what are his chances of success?
ASK ANY SENIOR Department of Education official about Ruairí Quinn’s first six months in Marlborough Street and they invariably reach for two words: “exhilirating” and “exhausting”.
It has been a extraordinary period in which Quinn has thrown out the rule book. Whereas many of his predecessors were content to cast themselves as cheerleaders for the education system, Quinn has been critical, sceptical and impatient, not least about the department itself.
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