Cuts will erode students’ progress, principal warns

THE progress that boys have made in reading and maths will be eroded overnight by budget cuts to a school serving one of Cork’s most disadvantaged communities, its principal has warned.

Scoil Mhuire Fatima at North Monastery just off Fairhill in Cork City’s northside was already due to lose two of the 16 teaching staff working with its 210 pupils next September because of previous cuts.

But following last week’s budget, principal Conn Higgins said another three vital posts could be lost.