Cutbacks force school to turn away children

MUSIC lovers as young as four years of age are to be turned away from one of the country’s top music schools because of cutbacks.

Waterford Institute of Technology announced yesterday that it has been forced to cut teaching hours and pupil numbers at the city’s School of Music at College Street. It blamed “resource constraints” for the cut, adding it much regretted the move.

For years now, children from primary and secondary schools throughout Waterford have been flocking to the centre. But because of the cuts, teaching hours and staff numbers have been reduced.