Tuesday was the final day of funding for the foreign languages programme for primary schools.
The Primary Modern Languages Programme has been scrapped as part of Department of Education’s cuts for the new financial year.
Four hundred and thirteen schools in Northern Ireland have had staff come in to teach Spanish, Irish or Polish.
Eighty-six teachers are employed under the scheme, most working in a handful of schools for a few hours at a time.
The Department of Education said the decision was regrettable but necessary, given the budget cuts they are facing and the fact that the scheme cost £900,000 a year.
They also suggested that schools fund the classes from their own budgets.
The headmaster of Killowen Primary in Rostrevor said that is not possible for his school and was very disappointed the scheme had been stopped. More.
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After all, who needs education anyway? Other languages and cultures? Pah, humbug! (This sums up the current UK government's attitude to education).
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After all, who needs education anyway? Other languages and cultures? Pah, humbug! (This sums up the current UK government's attitude to education).
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