ONE of the country’s leading teacher-training colleges is intolerably overcrowded, its college president warned yesterday.

THE Department of Education has delayed a decision on proposals it sought for extra teacher-training places from a leading college, despite the shortage of primary school staff.

POST-GRADUATE students at an overcrowded teacher training college are paying up to €5,000 a year to be taught in prefabs.

MORE damning evidenceof the lack of rationale in the Government’s frenzied cutbacks — a costly legacy for the taxpayer of the Coalition’s cynical pre-election vote-buying spree — is manifest in the blatant neglect of one of Ireland’s leading teacher training colleges.

THE money spent on keeping young people from disadvantaged areas in school needs to be better divided to give them a chance of getting to third level, an education expert said last night.