Up to 2,000 teachers to go in budget cuts [businessworld.ie]
- Published: 07 November 2011
Up to 2,000 teaching jobs are to be axed next year under budget cutbacks, according to a weekend report.
The jobs are to go across the primary and secondary school system in order to save money, the Sunday Times reports.
It quotes senior government sources as saying that education minister Ruairi Quinn and public expenditure minister Brendan Howlin are discussing cuts of between 1,500-2,000 in the number current total of 57,000 teachers.
Cutting back the numbers will provide 140m euros of the 2.2bn euros of cuts that are coming in the budget, it says.
Such cuts would push the post-primary pupil-teacher ration from 19:1 to 20:1 and raise the primary school ratio from 27:1 to 28:1.
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