Fee-paying schools increase ‘education apartheid’ — Labour

THE wide discrepancy in the number of students from different schools going to third-level colleges demonstrates an educational apartheid in Irish cities, the Labour Party said yesterday.

Jan O’Sullivan, the party’s education spokesperson, said tables showing which schools’ students went into degree, diploma and certificate courses last year show the extent of social division in the education system.

The tables, published in this week’s Farmers Journal, list which schools’ students went to which universities and institutes of technology (ITs) last year. They break down the percentage of students from every school who began degree, diploma or certificate courses.