Students with special needs to lose 10% of required teaching

PUPILS with special needs are to lose 10% of the resource teaching they need under the latest education cutbacks imposed because of EU/IMF staffing limits.

Schools will be notified of the move today. It could mean 300 fewer teachers working with special needs students than experts say should be provided.

As a result, tens of thousands of pupils will have to be taught in larger groups, lose one-to-one teaching, or have their special needs classes cut short.