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IVEA Disappointed With Recommendation to Abandon County-Based Structure of VECS
16 July 2009
The Irish Vocational Education Association (IVEA) has today expressed its particular disappointment with the recommendation in the Report of An Bord Snip Nua, published today, for the abandonment of the county-based Vocational Education Committee (VEC) structure.
Michael Moriarty, General Secretary of IVEA said, “The cornerstone and strength of the VECs’ county-based structure has been their identification with their local communities. They employ local people to oversee the administration of national education programmes, implemented in local schools, local community centres and parish halls.”
“Unfortunately, if the recommendation is implemented,” Mr Moriarty continued, “this local dimension could be lost forever. The local community’s identification with their local VEC – and vice versa – could well be severed as we lunge towards larger administrative units covering two or more counties.”
“The loss of the local dimension would undoubtedly have a detrimental effect on the capacity and flexibility of VECs to deliver national educational programmes tailored to the needs of local industry and to provide bespoke schools to meet the needs of the communities they now serve,” Mr Moriarty concluded.
The Irish Vocational Education Association (IVEA) represents the interests, at national level of Ireland's thirty-three Vocational Education Committees (VECs).

The VECs are statutory education authorities currently delivering educational programmes up to 100,000 second level pupils and 200,000 adult education learners. The day-to-day administration of the association is carried out by the secretariat, headed by the General Secretary, Mr Michael Moriarty in the IVEA's head office in Dublin.
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