asked the Minister for Education the estimated spending for 1989 by her Department on (a) in-service training for teachers, tabulated by primary/post-primary, (b) school books for pupils, primary/post-primary; and under which Vote and which subhead services have been provided for in the Estimates as published.
Written Answers. - Teachers' In-Service Training.
78.
The information requested by the Deputy is as follows:
|
Service |
Level |
Vote and Subhead |
Allocation 1989 |
|
£ |
|||
|
Inservice Training of teachers. |
Primary |
28 First-level Education F.8. |
143,000 |
|
Grant towards textbooks for necessitous pupils. |
Primary |
Vote 28 First-level F.4. |
982,000 |
|
Teacher Centres* |
Primary |
Vote 27 Office of the Minister for Education B.6. |
175,000 |
*A network of teacher centres has been established throughout the country for the professional use of primary and post-primary teachers. The major functions of a centre are to provide a meeting place for teachers to enable them to discuss problems relating to schoolwork, to act as a resource centre to enable teachers to prepare and construct equipment and materials for use in schools, to arrange courses on curriculum development, and to facilitate the display of pupils' and teachers' work and publishers' exhibitions of school textbooks. Accordingly, the centres have a major role to play in the inservice training of teachers.
A sum of approximately £300,000 is being provided for inservice courses for post-primary teachers in 1989. The money will be provided under Vote 29 Second Level Education, Subhead J.
The amounts provided for assistance towards the cost of schoolbooks in the Estimates for 1989 are as follows:
|
Amount |
Vote |
Subhead |
|
|
£ |
|||
|
Secondary |
1,150,000 |
29 |
B.6. |
|
Vocational* |
510,000 |
29 |
F.1. |
|
Community/ |
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|
Comprehensive |
252,000 |
29 |
E.2. |
*The allocation for Vocational Schools is included in the overall grant provision for VECs in Subhead F.1.