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IRELAND: Student number surge to spark funding crisis
05.07.2011
The Government is facing a massive financial headache because of a projected explosion in student numbers at schools and colleges.The number of enrolments over the coming years is estimated to be much higher than previously thought.
The Department of Education's latest predictions, seen by the Irish Independent, show that there will be an extra 80,000 students across all levels of education by 2014.
And by 2017, the number of students in primary and post-primary schools and third-level institutions will rise by 10pc to about 1.1 million.
In the next few years, it will require about 2,000 new teachers in primary and post-primary schools, as well as more third-level lecturers, to cope with the student boom.
It means education spending cuts will have to be even more severe than previously envisaged if the Government is to balance the books. It must also keep to the strict limits on staff numbers imposed by the EU/IMF bailout.
The increase in student numbers is higher than what was envisaged even late last year, when the four-year national recovery plan and bailout terms were drawn up.
The Government also faces the multi-million euro cost of building new schools -- up to 20 at second level alone, and many more at primary.
These will predominantly be built around the greater Dublin area.
Education Minister Ruairi Quinn will today provide details of where those schools will be located -- and then the Government faces the task of finding the money to build them.
Full text of the article: The Irish Independent website
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