{"id":377,"date":"2012-04-05T09:18:04","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T09:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/asti-show-real-impact-of-budget-2012-education-cuts-deputy-sean-crowe\/"},"modified":"2012-04-05T09:18:04","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T09:18:04","slug":"asti-show-real-impact-of-budget-2012-education-cuts-deputy-sean-crowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/asti-show-real-impact-of-budget-2012-education-cuts-deputy-sean-crowe\/","title":{"rendered":"ASTI show real impact of Budget 2012 education cuts \u2013 Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ASTI show real impact of Budget 2012 education cuts \u2013 Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s education spokesperson, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, has said that ASTI  findings, that 64% of second-level schools are considering dropping  subjects from their Leaving Cert programmes, are \u201cextremely worrying\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Crowe said: \u201cThe worst fears of many educationalists are being  realised as second level-schools are forced to drop a least one core  subject from their Leaving Cert syllabus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe subjects most at risk include accounting, chemistry, physics and  economics, which are essential if we are to develop the knowledge-based  economy needed to generate employment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSchools are faced with having to amalgamate higher, ordinary and foundation level classes in response to budget cuts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe retrograde decision by the government to end the ex-quota  teacher allocation for guidance counselling means an estimated increase  in the pupil-teacher ratio of .8.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will mean that from September 2012 onwards, there will be 700  less second-level teachers. The ASTI sponsored research also shows that  seven out of ten schools are likely to reduce guidance provision by an  average of 7.8 hours per week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will greatly impact on the levels of assistance and advice  schools can offer their students, and comes at a time when pastoral care  and career guidance are needed more than ever.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition there is a two per cent reduction in the school  capitation grant which will result in the loss of school tours and trips  and the postponement of essential building maintenance work.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ASTI research highlights the massive difficulties being imposed  on the Irish education system through the implementation of cuts that  will lead to teacher burnout and the denial to many young people of the  opportunity to reach their full academic potential.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASTI show real impact of Budget 2012 education cuts \u2013 Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s education spokesperson, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, has said that ASTI findings, that 64% of second-level schools are considering dropping subjects from their Leaving Cert programmes, are \u201cextremely worrying\u201d. Deputy Crowe said: \u201cThe worst fears of many educationalists are being realised as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}