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System to better target special needs resources

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System to better target special needs resources

Supports are to be allocated without the need for the assessment of pupils to guarantee extra help at school.

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‘We must target resources at children who need them most’

Disabled children’s groups denied say in allocation of teachers

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Disabled children’s groups denied say in allocation of teachers

Disability groups excluded from special needs planning

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Disability groups excluded from special needs planning

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The impact of having to wait for support

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Quinn left red faced as resource cuts reversed

Quinn takes the plaudits after parents’ anger

Ruairi Quinn paraded out of Government Buildings flanked with Labour backbenchers to announce Cabinet approval to keep resource teaching for children with disabilities at current levels in the autumn.

Wed, 26 Jun, 2013

Quinn: High-income families putting doctors under pressure over special needs care

Education Minister Ruairi Quinn has been forced into a second embarrassing U-turn and reversed a 10% cut in resource teaching hours to schoolchildren with special needs.

Tue, 25 Jun, 2013

Quinn to reverse special needs cuts decision

Education Minister Ruairi Quinn has received Cabinet approval for extra resources to reverse planned cuts to special needs education from September.

Tue, 25 Jun, 2013

Revealed: Quinn kept cuts secret for 3 weeks

Furious parents, children, and teachers will take to the streets next week as the extent of the Government’s special education cuts hit home.

Fri, 21 Jun, 2013

Leaving Certificate grades show downward trend

THE dramatic rise in top Leaving Certificate grades being awarded over the past 15 years has been reversed in the last two years.

Mon, 08 Sep, 2008

Bono's plea sees thousands sign up for anti-poverty rally

Thousands of U2 fans have signed up for the Make Poverty History rally in Dublin following Bono’s concert plea, it emerged today.

Mon, 27 Jun, 2005

Protesters urge new Finance Minister to act on cancellation of Third World debt

THE new Minister for Finance must lobby the World Bank for the cancellation of the entire Third World Debt, a group protesting for debt relief said yesterday.

Thu, 30 Sep, 2004