‘Officials only care about the numbers’

The loss of two teachers, combined with other cuts to resources, will undermine what one Cork primary school has worked so hard to achieve, says Education Correspondent Niall Murray.

GLASHEEN Boys National School was included in a Department of Education scheme for schools with high numbers of disadvantaged pupils in 2002.

The two extra teachers it was given under Giving Children an Even Break were kept when the scheme was replaced by the DEIS (Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools) programme in 2005.