TY - JOUR
T1 - The ‘tyranny of time’
T2 - getting to the heart of the impact of educational cuts on the provision of guidance counselling in Ireland
AU - Leahy, E.
AU - O’Flaherty, J.
AU - Hearne, L.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2017/1/1
Y1 - 2017/1/1
N2 - The Irish Education Act (Government of Ireland 1998) stipulates that each young person in secondary school in Ireland is entitled to access ‘appropriate’ guidance. It has been argued that this very right has been eroded since Budget 2012, where resource re-allocations in guidance counselling are obstructing the requirement for schools to implement this section of the Act. This qualitative study explored the effects of ‘educational cutbacks’ from the perspective of guidance counsellors. Findings from interviews with guidance counsellors, suggest that the effects of such cutbacks in guidance counselling are far-reaching and ultimately students are the one’s losing out. The paper proposes that there is a need to reinstate guidance counselling hours to allow guidance counsellors provide a comprehensive service to young people–which they are entitled to.
AB - The Irish Education Act (Government of Ireland 1998) stipulates that each young person in secondary school in Ireland is entitled to access ‘appropriate’ guidance. It has been argued that this very right has been eroded since Budget 2012, where resource re-allocations in guidance counselling are obstructing the requirement for schools to implement this section of the Act. This qualitative study explored the effects of ‘educational cutbacks’ from the perspective of guidance counsellors. Findings from interviews with guidance counsellors, suggest that the effects of such cutbacks in guidance counselling are far-reaching and ultimately students are the one’s losing out. The paper proposes that there is a need to reinstate guidance counselling hours to allow guidance counsellors provide a comprehensive service to young people–which they are entitled to.
KW - education cutbacks
KW - Guidance counselling
KW - guidance counselling re-allocation
KW - secondary education
KW - whole school approach
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84994172707&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/03069885.2016.1254722
DO - 10.1080/03069885.2016.1254722
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84994172707
SN - 0306-9885
VL - 45
SP - 97
EP - 111
JO - British Journal of Guidance and Counselling
JF - British Journal of Guidance and Counselling
IS - 1
ER -