Review of Small Primary Schools: 

A Government decision not to accept a report on small schools is good news for rural Ireland but its political handling is bad administration, says Education Correspondent Niall Murray

The Department of Education is not sure how many staff hours went into a report on small schools that, like so many others, will spend most of its life gathering dust.

Some of the detailed statistics and analysis of schools by size and cost should indeed, as Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan said earlier this week, prove valuable in future education policy development.