Major 'transition planning' for students with disabilities to progress to college

 
Minister for Further and Higher Education Simon Harris has announced as a “major priority” transition planning for students with learning disabilities to move into further education and employment.
The project, to be completed by September, will also include a “mapping exercise” of existing facilities and examples of good practice for further and higher education.
A national access plan for students into further education after secondary school is also under way.
Mr Harris said in the Dáil that too often the “discussion is too narrow” for pupils with disabilities when they leave school.
“It’s around what health service are we going to provide somebody with post-school, not what would this person like to do, what skill would they like, what job would they like, what college would they like to go to,” he said.

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