Capacity one of the main issues for schools accommodating Ukrainian students

Last-minute accommodation changes and pupils' trauma are also big challenges

Some 15,000 Ukrainian students have enrolled here since the start of the war.

Capacity issues, emerging trauma, and upheaval as accommodation changes at the last minute; new documents reveal just some of the challenges faced by schools at the front of Ireland’s educational response to the Ukrainian refugee crisis.

A little over a year into the war, almost 15,000 Ukrainian students have now enrolled here. It’s thanks to a heroic effort and one that comes off the back of the exhausting emergency response to the covid-19 pandemic.