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More than 200 principals and teachers from across Ireland’s 16 education and training boards, including Galway & Roscommon ETB, who gathered at a national symposium 'Let’s Talk Ethos' in Athlone this week to reflect on their core values, have heard that the previously “uncontested” core value of equality can be the most challenging to implement.

More than 200 principals and teachers from across Ireland’s 16 education and training boards, including Galway & Roscommon ETB, who gathered at a national symposium 'Let’s Talk Ethos' in Athlone this week to reflect on their core values, have heard that the previously “uncontested” core value of equality can be the most challenging to implement.

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?

Athlone and Ballinasloe have been named as two of the locations around the country where the Government is considering plans to take control of some Catholic primary schools.

Primary schools face bankruptcy if the Government adopts the recommendations published in the An Bord Snip Nua report.

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.