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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?

Next Wednesday is a big day. Maybe not for you. But for many of the country’s 17-19 year-olds it will mark the beginning of the rest of their lives. Dreams will come true for some, while others may be disappointed.