The OECD says a “near negligible amount” of time is devoted to modern foreign languages in the Republic, compared to other EU states where it accounts for 9 per cent of instruction time.

By contrast, 10 per cent of compulsory teaching time was devoted to religion in the Republic, the second highest (after Israel) among the countries surveyed.

 

Teachers’ Pay in Republic Among Highest In World (Sean Flynn, Irish Times)

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