asked the Minister for Education (i) the number of secondary schools in County Galway; (ii) the number of students attending these schools; (iii) the number of schools with career guidance teachers; and (iv) the number of schools with over 500 pupils; and if she will make a statement in regard to the future employment of career guidance and remedial teachers in County Galway.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - County Galway Secondary Schools.
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There are 31 secondary schools in County Galway and there are 11,916 pupils enrolled in these schools in the current school year. Twenty-two of those schools employ guidance teachers and eight schools have over 500 pupils. The question of the employment of guidance and remedial teachers is one for the school authorities subject to compliance with the relevant official regulations.
In the current school-year 1982-83, a guidance teacher employed in a school with less than 250 pupils is eligible to receive incremental salary only if he is within the authorised quota of the school. In the case of a school of 250 or more pupils, the teacher may receive incremental salary on an ex-quota basis.
As from 1 August 1983 the payment of incremental salary to teachers on the basis of being within the quota or ex-quota will be related to a figure of 500 instead of 250. Adjustments in existing school staffing will arise in this connection, however, only according as vacancies occur in the schools.