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11/04/2012
Call Made For Cross Border Education
A call has been made for cross-border education by Northern Ireland's Education Minister.
Speaking today at the Irish National Teachers Organisation's annual conference in Killarney, John O'Dowd said that parents should have the right to be able to send their children across the border to be educated in the Irish Republic.
It is the Minister's belief that parents should have the right to choose and that the land border should not be an issue.
Parents want to be able to educate their children in the nearest schools and in some cases this means that they need to cross into the Republic of Ireland.
Mr O'Dowd said: "People are not emigrating, they are moving across a line on a map.
"Their social connections, their economic connections, their community connections, their heritage, their cultural connections all remain the same."
(LB)
Speaking today at the Irish National Teachers Organisation's annual conference in Killarney, John O'Dowd said that parents should have the right to be able to send their children across the border to be educated in the Irish Republic.
It is the Minister's belief that parents should have the right to choose and that the land border should not be an issue.
Parents want to be able to educate their children in the nearest schools and in some cases this means that they need to cross into the Republic of Ireland.
Mr O'Dowd said: "People are not emigrating, they are moving across a line on a map.
"Their social connections, their economic connections, their community connections, their heritage, their cultural connections all remain the same."
(LB)
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