Warning over cuts to career guidance [Independent.ie]
- Published: 14 December 2011
CUTS to career guidance will leave pupils exposed to making poor choices when they leave school, the ESRI think tank has warned.
The ESRI report says that investment in education is "perhaps unique in having the potential to impact on generations to come". It warns about the impact of Budget cuts to career guidance in schools, and how this will affect pupils.
It has been the practice for schools to get extra teaching hours for career guidance, which were over and above their general allocation.
But from next September, they will have to provide the guidance service from within their general teacher allocation. It amounts to the abolition of about 500 posts.
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