Posted by SchoolDays Newshound on 08/12/2011
Response by Tanya Flanagan, National Coordinator, Modern Languages in
Primary Schools Initiative' to this weeks budget proposal to abolish the
'Modern Languages in Primary Schools Initiative'
The budget
announcements included a proposal to abolish the Modern Languages in
Primary Schools Initiative with immediate effect. As you can appreciate,
we are absolutely devastated by this announcement which comes at the
end of a year when we have been congratulated at every review meeting
with the DES in terms of how we have continued to maintain and deliver
excellent services while achieving SIGNIFICANT efficiencies. Read more...