£2m wasted - Allister
TRADITIONAL Unionist Jim Allister has revealed the cost of pupil profiling and in doing so has called for the Revised Curriculum to be scrapped.
The MEP was speaking after seeing documentation obtained through the Freedom of Information Act which stated that the total cost of profiling was more than two million pounds.
“When plans to introduce a system of pupil profiling across Northern Ireland’s schools were cancelled by the Department of Education in December I stated that a number of key questions demanded answers,” said the MEP.
“First and foremost, how much did it cost the tax payer? I am now in a position to provide a definitive answer. I am sure people across the Province will be shocked to learn that over two million pounds was squandered by the Department on this.
“I would repeat my call for the scrapping of the Revised Curriculum, not just pupil profiling,” said Mr Allister.
“It is fundamentally anti-selection and robs Northern Ireland’s children of a grounding in the fundamentals of literacy and numeracy,” he said.
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