Spending on primary education per pupil is much lower than spending on secondary or tertiary education despite primary education being the best way to prevent long-term unemployment, poverty.
Living even that aside, how can it be that in some schools there is no sign the boom even happened as kids sit in their prefabs.
Even the latest OECD report which you mention Dot the figures were artficially inflated by mistaken figures given to the OECD by the Department:
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But Ireland’s performance may be still worse than indicated, as a Department of Education statement admitted it made errors in second-level data given to the OECD.
Some of the per-student spending figures are about 7% higher than they should be as a result, meaning the figure for Ireland is below the OECD average level at which it is indicated in the report.
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