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Fine Gael Senator for Galway West, Fidelma Healy Eames, has received confirmation from the Minister for Education that newly qualified teachers can use the JobBridge internship programme to complete their probation.

There is growing concern for the future education of primary school children in Galway caused by pressures placed on already dwindling resources due to cuts, teacher employment restrictions, and increases in class sizes.

The value placed on teachers in Ireland seems to be downgrading all the time.

The principal of a two teacher school in Conahy in Co Kilkenny has said that he is concerned for the future of two-teacher schools across rural Ireland following the value-for-money review which is currently being undertaken by the Department of Education.

Fine Gael Seanad education spokesperson Senator Fidelma Healy Eames has slammed schools which employ retired teachers to provide substitute cover when hundreds of newly qualified teachers are jobless.

The Department of Education’s new National Induction Programme for Teachers will be taking place in The Galway Education Centre.

Hundreds of teachers, parents, and students are expected to unite in Eyre Square this Saturday as the Irish National Teachers Organisation starts a second attempt to raise the attention of the Government with regard to drastic budget cuts that are set to “cause mayhem in the classroom”.

As the celebrations to mark Kilkenny’s 400-year-old city status begins to draw nearer, one group that is helping schools to get prepared for the historic event is Kilkenny Education Centre.

If the Government does not reverse the decision to cut resource and special needs teachers in Galway, they will hinder the efforts being made by non-national children to integrate into the education system and Irish society.

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