Olwyn Enright (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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Question 97: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of whole school evaluations that will be completed by the end of 2006; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40247/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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In 2006 the Inspectorate planned to conduct a total of 285 whole-school evaluations (WSE) in primary and post-primary schools. This comprised 228 WSEs at primary level and 57 WSEs at post-primary level. A further 22 evaluations were conducted in other centres for education including Youth Encounter Project schools, Youthreach Centres and Senior Traveller Training Centres.

By the end of 2006 the evaluation phase of WSE will have been completed in all of the above. 160 of the WSE reports will have been issued to the schools or centres by the end of December 2006. The remainder will issue to schools or centres and be published on the Department's website in early 2007 in accordance with the agreed timeframe for the publication of reports.