Irish Independent: The Department of Education has announced a slowing down of the reform plan and a range of extra resources and other measures designed to ease the transition...Welcoming the new measures, Ferdia Kelly of the Joint Managerial Body (JMB), representing managers in about two thirds of schools, said the minister had "clearly been listening and although in school terms September is very close, we now have a much more realistic set of tools to get on with the job". Read article