Ms Kathleen Moran:

Briefly, from our point of view, we probably deal with students at the individual level rather than from the top down. One of the things we have seen is that many of those who have come in have been placed in transition year if they are aged 15 or more. Some would be more advanced than that. Our librarians have often reported that students have particular aspirations for their careers. They may want to be an engineer, architect or whatever and they are planning they subjects they will need when they move into fifth or sixth year next year. However, the sudden movement of a student then to another school where those subjects may not be available does not seem to be taken into account in terms of their individual needs. It is accommodation over everything else. It is extremely traumatic for those students that they are not necessarily assessed for where they see themselves progressing in the education system and their careers in the future. Many of them are very focused on where they want to be. It needs to be taken into account that we are putting them somewhere and then taking the ground from under them again when we move them to somewhere those aspirations cannot be met.