THE Scottish Government is coming under increasing pressure to provide extra funding to help schools in Glasgow cope with a sharp increase in pupils from Eastern Europe.
THE Scottish Government is coming under increasing pressure to provide extra funding to help schools in Glasgow cope with a sharp increase in pupils from Eastern Europe.
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Andrew Denholm Education Correspondent
Glasgow City Council has written to ministers requesting financial assistance to deal with the influx of the pupils, which has topped 2000 since 2005/06.
In particular, the council is growing increasingly concerned about its ability to cope with an influx of Roma families, from Slovakia and Romania, with pupil numbers rising by more than 1000 from these countries alone in the past five years.
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