Children caught up in grim cycle

THE domino effect of children in today’s run-down schools having to face similar problems in college, makes for a dreary picture of Irish education.

Having squandered the wealth of the Celtic Tiger era, when millions were doled out by the Coalition in a reckless vote-buying spree, the Government is now savaging the very education system that fuelled the economic boom.

Significantly, a timely call for a dramatic increase of investment at third level has come, not as one might expect from the Opposition, but from a leading educationalist.