VEC confident girls will be able to enrol in school

THE Department of Education is still examining a request to allow a Cork all-boys vocational school to enrol girls from next September.

However, City of Cork Vocational Education Committee (VEC) chief executive Ted Owens said he is confident the go-ahead will be given for Nagle Community College in Mahon to open its gates as a mixed gender school when it reopens after the summer.

The VEC decided in late February to seek redesignation as a co-educational institution for the post-primary element of the college, which already has female students on its Post Leaving Certificate (PLC) courses.