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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (6 Jul 2017)

Richard Bruton: The criteria used for the allocation of teachers to primary schools is published annually on the website of the Department of Education and Skills. The key factor for determining the level of staffing resources provided at individual school level is the staffing schedule for the relevant school year and pupil enrolments on the previous 30 September. Budget 2012 increased the appointment...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Skills Shortages (6 Jul 2017)

Richard Bruton: The Action Plan for Education and the National Skills Strategy detail clear curriculum change and other commitments that will secure the step-change needed to equip learners with the skills necessary to participate in the modern economy. In relation to Science and Technology I expect to publish shortly a STEM education policy statement and implementation plan which will detail...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (6 Jul 2017)

Richard Bruton: In looking at how to meet competing demands across the education and training system within the resources available to my Department, I must take a targeted and balanced approach to directing investment. My aim is to progressively deliver on the ambitions and objectives of the Programme for Government, the Confidence and Supply Arrangement and the Action Plan for Education. As part of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (6 Jul 2017)

Richard Bruton: I wish to advise the Deputy that DES Circular 0013/2017 for primary schools and 0014/2017 for post primary schools were published on 7 March 2017. These Circulars set out the details of a new model for allocating special education teachers to schools. The revised allocation process replaces the generalised allocation process at primary and post primary school level for learning...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Autism Support Services (6 Jul 2017)

Richard Bruton: It is the policy of my Department that all children with Special Educational Needs, including those with Autistic Spectrum Disorders, can have access to an education appropriate to their needs, preferably in school settings through the primary and post primary school network. Such placements facilitate access to individualised education programmes which may draw from a range of appropriate...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff Data (6 Jul 2017)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 114 and 118 together. I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department's Circulars 0013/2017 for primary schools and 0014/2017 for post primary schools were published on 7 March 2017. These Circulars set out the details of a new model for allocating special education teachers to schools. The revised allocation process replaces the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Administration (6 Jul 2017)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 115, 116 and 119 together. I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department uses a Geographical Information System (GIS) to identify where the pressure for school places across the country will arise. In order to plan for school provision and analyse the relevant demographic data, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas. The GIS uses...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Psychological Assessments (6 Jul 2017)

Richard Bruton: I can inform the Deputy that my Department’s National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) provides educational psychology service to all primary and post primary schools through an assigned NEPS psychologist and in some cases through the Scheme for Commissioning Psychological Assessments (SCPA), full details of which are on the Department's website. Under this scheme schools can...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (6 Jul 2017)

Richard Bruton: Budget 2017 sets out the resources available for schools in the 2017/18 school year.  This Budget represents the start of a major reinvestment in education, and the first phase of implementation of the Action Plan for Education, aimed at becoming the best education system in Europe within a decade.  The budget provides for over 2,400 additional teaching posts for our...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Digital Strategy for Schools (6 Jul 2017)

Richard Bruton: The Digital Strategy for Schools 2015-2020 (Enhancing Teaching, Learning & Assessment), launched in October 2015, sets out a clear vision that is focused on realising the potential of digital technologies to transform the learning experience of students by helping them become engaged thinkers, active learners, knowledge constructors and global citizens who participate fully in society...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (6 Jul 2017)

Richard Bruton: My Department is very aware of the importance of small schools to rural communities and particularly the most dispersed and remote communities. To sustain primary schools in these communities my Department has a more favourable staffing schedule for small schools that are more than 8km distant from the next nearest school of the same type of patronage and language of instruction. This...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (6 Jul 2017)

Richard Bruton: Higher Education Institutions, which have primary responsibility for the quality of their course provision, have quality assurance procedures in place, having had regard to Guidelines from Quality and Qualifications Ireland. In addition to encompassing regular periodic reviews of study programmes, institutions are also encouraged to undertake quality reviews of academic,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Autism Support Services (6 Jul 2017)

Richard Bruton: It is the policy of my Department that all children with Special Educational Needs, including those with Autistic Spectrum Disorders, can have access to an education appropriate to their needs, preferably in school settings through the primary and post primary school network. Such placements facilitate access to individualised education programmes which may draw from a range of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (11 Jul 2017)

Richard Bruton: It is the policy of my Department that all children with Special Educational Needs, including those with Autistic Spectrum Disorders, can have access to an education appropriate to their needs, preferably in school settings through the primary and post primary school network. Such placements facilitate access to individualised education programmes which may draw from a range of appropriate...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (11 Jul 2017)

Richard Bruton: The Stage 2(b) Detailed Design Report was recently submitted to my Department by the Board of Management and its Design Team. Following receipt of that submission, my Department authorised the Board of Management to instruct its Design Team to commence the pre-qualification process for the assessment of suitably qualified contractors to which the project can be tendered....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Grievance Procedures (11 Jul 2017)

Richard Bruton: The Deputy will be aware that, under the Education Act 1998, legally, all schools are managed by the school Board of Management, on behalf of the schools patrons or trustees or Education and Training Board (known as the management authority). It is the management authority that employs the school principal, teachers and other staff members. In ETB schools, the ETB is the employer....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (11 Jul 2017)

Richard Bruton: My Department has been advised by the school referred to that it is withdrawing its application for the provision of additional accommodation for the establishment of a National Council for Special Education (NCSE) approved Early Intervention Unit (EIU).  My Department understands, however, that the school concerned are proposing to apply for accommodation to facilitate the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (11 Jul 2017)

Richard Bruton: The school to which the Deputy refers was established in 2016.  It is currently operating from part of Nagle Community College, Mahon, Blackrock, Co. Cork.  An extension of this arrangement was recently agreed with the school authority pending the delivery of alternative temporary accommodation which is currently being arranged by the school’s patron body. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (11 Jul 2017)

Richard Bruton: It is the policy of my Department that all children with Special Educational Needs, including those with Autistic Spectrum Disorders, can have access to an education appropriate to their needs, preferably in school settings through the primary and post primary school network. Such placements facilitate access to individualised education programmes which may draw from a range of appropriate...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (11 Jul 2017)

Richard Bruton: My Department has no proposals to carry out a cost study in relation to the establishment of a support centre for Irish language medium education at this time.