Contract signed for campus hosting primary and second-level schools

A SCHOOLS campus bringing primary and second-level education together in the west Cork town of Bantry is set to be finished by the end of next year.

The Department of Education expects the new home for Gaelscoil Bheanntraí to be ready for its 200 pupils by September 2010 and the new Community College should open its doors within months or even weeks of that.

The two schools are among six being built as part of the latest bundle of public private partnership (PPP) schools for which Education Minister Mary Coughlan signed contracts with Macquarie Partnerships for Ireland (MPFI) yesterday.