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Audit of primary teachers sought as pupil numbers rise 10,000

Meitheamh 30, 2014

School principals have called for an audit of teaching resources as new figures published today confirm the number of primary school pupils has surged by almost 10,000. Clive Byrne, the director of National Association of Principals and Deputy Principals, said the key annual statistics for 2013-14 academic year highlighted the need for providing sufficient teachers in the “priority subjects” of the future.

While he welcomed the recruitment of 1,000 extra teachers this year to protect the staff-student ratio, he said: “It is equally vital that there is the correct match between the subjects most in demand and sufficient numbers of teachers qualified to teach these subjects”. He noted the Government had placed great emphasis on positioning Ireland as a global tech hub, “making it essential that we have sufficient numbers of teachers qualified to teach in science, computing and maths subjects.

“We have called on the Minister for Education to undertake a full audit of our teaching resources for the years ahead. This audit would include examining the numbers of teachers expected to retire in the years ahead; the subjects they currently teach and an analysis of whether we will have sufficient teaching graduates qualified to teach the priority subjects in the years ahead.”

The department statistics for 2013-14 academic year show that the number of children at primary school has increased by 9,895 at primary level to 528,562. The number at post-primary (excluding PLCs) has increased by 4,331 to 333,175. The primary pupil-teacher ratio has dropped slightly from 16.4 to 16.3, while it remains constant at second level at 13.9. Minister for Education and Skills Ruairí Quinn said this reflected the way the Government had “prioritised education” at a time of financial crisis.

The total number of primary schools is now at 3,286, down seven on last year. This decrease is a combination of the establishment of 16 new schools, mainly in areas of growing population, and the closure or amalgamation of 23 schools.

There are now 1,351 primary schools with fewer than 100 pupils, with 600 of these having fewer than 50. The average class size in primary schools has remained relatively unchanged, at 24.8.

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Meitheamh 27, 2014

Tugann Comhairle na Gaelscolaíochta tacaíocht do Thuistí an Tuaiscirt

Inniú, tá tacaíocht tugtha ó Chomhairle na Gaelscolaíochta chuig feachtas Tuistí an Tuaiscirt, feachtas atá ag obair chun bus a sholáthar idir Tuaisceart Bhéal Feirste agus Coláiste Feirste.

Deir Príomhfheidhmeannach Chomhairle na Gaelscolaíochta, an Dr. Micheál Ó Duibh:

“Ba mhaith linn an obair chrua atá á dhéanamh ag tuismitheoirí, scoláirí agus an pobal áitiúil i dtuaisceart Bhéal Feirste ar leas an fheachtais seo a mholadh. Léirionn na h-iarrachtaí atá déanta acu an gá atá ann do sholáthar taistil cuí a bheith ar fáil sa cheantar sin do scoláirí Choláiste Feirste ar bhonn láithreach. Iarrann muid ar an Roinn Oideachais inniú aitheantas a thabhairt don éileamh mór atá i dtuaisceart Bhéal Feirste le socruithe taistil a sholáthar mar is ceart agus chun aird a thabhairt ar bhuarthaí na dtuismitheoirí seo a luaithe agus is féidir.

Pléadh cúrsaí taistil i dtaca le gaeloideachas san Ard Chuirt i 2011 (Coláiste Feirste v Department of Education (2011) NIQB). Sa bhreithiúnas seo, duirt An Breitheamh Treacy:

“the provision of transport facilities to schools in any sector is critical to the development of that sector and the provision of genuine parental choice… it is not possible to divorce the development of schools from the means by which students are going to get to them.” Justice Treacy, Coláiste Feirste v Department of Education (2011)

Bunaíodh an cinneadh a bhí déanta ag An Breitheamh Treacy ar an dualgas dleathach atá curtha ar an Roinn Oideachais i 1998 le gaeloideachas ‘a spreagadh agus a eascú’, agus dúirt an breithiúnas nach rud mianaidhme a bhí i gceist leis seo ach rud a bheadh iarmhairtí praicticiúla agus brí reachtúla aige. Mar sin, tá dualgas soiléir dleathach ar an Roinn Oideachais le socruithe taistil cuí a sholáthar do scoláirí Choláiste Feirste as tuaisceart Bhéal Feirste.

Is mian le Comhairle na Gaelscolaíochta an oiread tacaíochta agus is féidir linn a thabhairt d’fheachtas Thuistí an Tuaiscirt i dtreo thoradh dearfach ar éileamh na dtuistí i dtuaisceart na Cathrach.

www.comhairle.org.

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