Single-sex schools are targeted for teacher cut [Independent.ie]
- Published: 03 January 2012
THE Department of Education wants to target single-sex post-primary schools for a cut in teacher numbers.
It believes they have an advantage on the grounds that co-ed schools have more complex needs such as providing a range of subjects to cater for the interests of boys and girls.
Such a move would affect 248, or one in three of the 729 second-level single-sex schools.
Single-sex schools are almost exclusively run, or formerly run, by religious orders, in the voluntary secondary sector.
The question of singling them out for cuts was raised by the department in advance of the recent Budget.
But instead, the extra provision schools receive for guidance counselling and the general teaching allocation to fee-paying schools took the hit for next September.
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