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Tuesday , September 22 2026

Road safety GCSE prepares students to be safe drivers

Cuts to funding for a GCSE course which teaches students road safety have been reversed.

Grants to schools to teach a GCSE in Motor Vehicle and Road User Studies were axed in 2023, alongside other swingeing cuts to education.

The Department for Instructure (DfI) had stopped providing textbooks and funding for schools to buy a moped to teach the subject.

But Infrastructure Minister John O’Dowd has now reinstated the funding.

Read more here.


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