The plans for decentralisation were omitted.\u00a0 Boards of Management were not mandatory.\u00a0 Certain bodies were established to provide support systems for education.\u00a0 The National Council for Curriculum and Assessment was established.<\/p>\n
Prior to the 1998 Act the variation of existing trusts which governed Catholic schools were agreed between the state and the Catholic Church in respect of primary schools.\u00a0 This variation provided that the ethos of the school was recognised.\u00a0 This was effectively part of the process of negotiation towards acceptance of the Education Act.<\/p>\n
The Minister must have regard to the right of schools to manage their own affairs in accordance with the Act, charters, deeds, articles of management and other instruments relating to their establishment and operation.<\/p>\n
The patron is the entity recognised as such.\u00a0 This may be a diocesan Bishop, the Board of the company if any \u00a0, Board of Governors, trustees (comprehensive and community schools), Minister in the case of model schools, VEC, the owner of private schools or governors.\u00a0 In the case of gaelscoileanna it may be the bishop of the diocese or Foras \u00a0Patrunachta na Scoileann Lan-Ghaelige . An application can be made to alter the status of a school from one to another.<\/p>\n\n
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Programme of Action The Programme for Action in Education 1984 to 1987 promoted the idea of a permanent and continuing education for all citizens and equal opportunities for educational advancement.\u00a0 It mentioned the possibility of positive discrimination in favour of persons who are educationally disadvantaged. The Programme emphasised the relevance of the educational process to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[309],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2450"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27194,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450\/revisions\/27194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}