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Last week’s Budget for 2012 set out new measures that will raise the pupil-teacher ratio in Ireland’s fee-paying schools to 1:21. But is the funding allocation shift a justified austerity measure against archaic institutions, or is it a knee-jerk response that merely restricts the right of access of protestant families to schools of their own faith?

Kilkenny TD John Paul Phelan has said that this week’s Budget is ‘fair’ and that it contains a number of positives for Kilkenny.

This Friday Kilkenny students will be selling chocolate bars for the Hope Foundation in a fundraising event for the Hope Foundation’s first ever national day, A Day of Hope.

A memorial ceremony for Irish soldiers who died fighting in World War I was held in Kilkenny at St Canice’s Cathedral on Armistice Day, last Friday, November 11.

Five teams of students from two Kilkenny schools will travel to the RDS in Dublin in January, hoping to impress the judges at the annual BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition.

All-Ireland schools combined events

Students in Kilkenny were in celebration-mode this week, as thousands of the county’s teenagers received their Junior Cert results on Wednesday morning.

After the huge success of the Mindhives Excellence Camp at Easter, the camp is returning to Kilkenny College from August 15 to 20.

Fourteen young boys and girls from Kilkenny College were presented their certificates on completion on Thursday May 19 at the final session of the Youth Leadership Program, sponsored by the Kilkenny Toastmasters Club.