Quinn: Changes needed in education system
The Education Minister Ruairí Quinn is warning changes are needed to the way education is delivered despite a positive report from the OECD.
The think-tank says Ireland has one of the best rates in the world for completion of secondary education and it found that investment in disadvantaged areas had effectively paid off.
Quinn says to protect such investment, changes will have to be made: "If we don't reinvent our education system we will not have a new economy.
"If we don't have a new economy, this country won't prosper in the future. That view is shared by everybody in the Labour party.
"I will be discussing the kind of reforms we need to take and will do it with the cooperation of our education stakeholders, which I'm glad to say is very fulsome."
