Official- They're gonna privatise our kids education

national | miscellaneous | news report Tuesday April 02, 2002 19:45 by Joe Carolan - Globalise Resistance globalise_resistance at yahoo dot com 087 9032281

Woods to use PPP to fund new primary schools

The Minister for Education has announced today he will extend the use of Public Private Partnerships(PPP) for the building of primary schools. How should the movement react to increasing use of PPPs? Maybe some form of discussion here?

Speaking at the Irish National Teachers Organisation’s annual conference in Limerick, Dr Michael Woods said he was preparing plans to invite tenders for further PPPs which would include new primary schools in rapidly developing areas. Development of a number of secondary schools throughout the country are already under way through PPP.

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