School’s income slashed by €39,000

THE annual income of a top west Cork secondary school will plummet by €39,000 this year as a result of grant cutbacks, while subject choice and some teaching jobs will be affected, the headmistress has warned.

Sacred Heart Secondary School in Clonakilty will lose €39,000 because of cutbacks in the books grant, the transition year grant, the grant underpinning the Leaving Cert Applied Programme, the sciences grant, and the grants underpinning the provision of Home Economics and the school music orchestra, according to school principal, Sr Eilis McGrath.

This represented a total estimated drop in income to the school of about 25%, she warned.