Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 29 September 2004
665 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Education and Science the cap on student numbers that exists in relation to post-leaving certificate courses; and the degree of flexibility his Department can and will allow in relation to such numbers. [22959/04]
Amharc ar fhreagraVocational education committees and individual schools and colleges outside the VEC system have been given an allocation of post-leaving certificate places for 2004-05 equivalent to their 2003-04 allocation, except where the application by an individual school or college was for a lesser number. Nationally, a total of 28,588 places have been approved for post-leaving certificate courses for 2004-05.
Each vocational education committee has discretion to determine the distribution of the approved places between individual schools and colleges under its remit, within the constraint of the overall number of places allocated at VEC level. Where enrolments in PLC courses in a school or college exceed the number of approved places, the excess number will not be recognised for the purposes of teacher allocations or other resources.
