education funds in ireland

Sceala Clann Counsellor Location: NZ

ireland's healthcare spending was reported one of the lowest in the developed world.
i asked before
that if ireland was now super rich. where does all the money go.
this just gets worse.
why do the people not demand better than this.
ireland bottom of education spending list
ireland spends less on education than most other industrialised countries and class sizes are among the largest, an oecd report said today.
the education at a glance 2007 study found ireland spent just €4,839 per child –lower than the eu average of €4,910 per child. the report also claimed that irish primary schools had an average class size of 25 children in 2005, compared to 22 across the eu.
secondary teachers’ union asti general secretary john white said inadequate funding for second-level education had resulted inlarge class sizes and poorly-resourced schools.
mr white said: “despite the fact that we are one of the wealthiest countries in the world, ireland comes joint last out of 29 oecd countries when it comes to spending on each second-level student relative to gdp per capita.” he added that ireland’s gdp per capita was the second highest in the eu and sixth in the world.
in a detailed response to the oecd report, education minister mary hanafin said that public spending on education has continued to increase since 2004 and it is now the third largest spending department in the country.
she claimed that the oecd report does not include the thousands of extra teachers put in place in the past three years.
“the report shows improvements in the pupil teacher ratio up to 2004, it is important to remember that it has improved even further since then, with one teacher for every 16 pupils now at primarylevel and one for every 13 at secondlevel,” she said.
the government, through the national development plan, has already committed over €32bn to alllevels of education over the next seven years, she added.
“we are planning for increased enrolments in our schools, massive investment in our school building programme as well as major investment in our 3rd and 4thlevel sectors in order to ensure that we are well placed to compete with our counterparts across the eu and wider oecd countries.
“with this increased investment, we will be seeking to ensure that the outcomes attained are also improving and giving all the students in our education system the best chances possible for both their personal and professional development.”

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