More than eight decades of education provision ends today when 33 city and county vocational education committees (VECs) are consigned to history.

The wife of Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore is to become a policy specialist for his Labour Party colleague Ruairí Quinn as part of redeployment arrangements for vocational education committee (VEC) chiefs.

A DUBLIN primary school to open next year, operated by a Vocational Education Committee (VEC), could mark the first significant step in altering the Catholic church’s domination of primary education.