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Fri 07 Jul 2009Education Science Unions say cuts are a 'social timebomb'
EDUCATION SECTOR:RADICAL CUTS of €746 million in the education sector are identified in the McCarthy report, including 6,390 job losses, mergers of smaller rural schools, increased pupil-teacher ratios and significant mergers across third-level colleges.
he proposed cuts have provoked widespread anger, with unions describing them as a recipe for a “social timebomb”.
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