Liam Harkin

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The roles of an academic subject teacher and a guidance counsellor are very different, and trying to move from one role to another very rapidly is causing some guidance counsellors to burn out.
Breda O’Brien: Cuts in the number of Guidance counsellors hit the poor hardest

‘My biggest fear is that due to a lack of time I will not be able to help a child in need.’ That comment, made by a guidance counsellor, is quoted in (...)

Betty McLaughlin, school guidance counsellor at Coláiste Mhuire in Mullingar, Co Westmeath and PRO for the Institute of Guidance Counsellors, discusses third- level options with students. Photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish Times
Fee-paying schools miss worst of cuts to counselling

Fee-paying secondary schools have been able to insulate themselves from the worst effects of cuts in guidance counselling services introduced three ye(...)