CALLS are being made for the local authority to abandon plans to reorganise the county’s education system, which could see 14 secondary schools reduced to six or seven.

Gwynedd Council’s Cabinet discussed plans to reduce the number of headteachers in Gwynedd, without closing any schools, on Tuesday.

The local authority said the changes are necessary due to recruitment problems and cash cuts.

The Cabinet’s report suggests the majority of the county’s 95 primary schools are retained with cooperatives set up to share management.

The report also states that the education system is having difficulties in recruiting headteachers for primary schools and difficulties in recruiting senior leaders and middle managers at secondary schools.

Tremadog councillor, Alwyn Gruffydd, who has campaigned with his party, Llais Gwynedd, over a number of years to keep schools in Gwynedd open, says no reorganisation should be made to education.

See the full story in this week’s Meirionnydd and Arfon/Dwyfor editions of the Cambrian News