‘Scurrilous’ move to increase pupil/teacher ratio

IN recent hard-fought negotiations between the INTO and the Department of Education, standards were set to provide an effective pupil/teacher ratio in order to best serve the young children of this country.

The aim was to bring our system in line with other European countries by reducing class sizes in order to implement the extended revised curriculum and to enable our children eventually to compete in a changing global economy.

We had the money in the last 15 years but the Government dragged its feet, as ever reluctant to invest in our most treasured asset.