2,000 Northern Ireland pupils on educational psychology waiting list

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-12596279

 This is a brief; yet, important article that discusses that 2,000 Ireland students are on an educational psychology waiting list.

 Figures from the last academic year show that 11,000 students in post and primary schools have been getting help from an educational psychologist.

However, now there is a waiting list and there is a shortage of educational psychologists. It was stressed in the article that children should get the help they need as early on as possible.

I think that the shortage of psychologists is something that is also a problem here in Minnesota. There are waiting lists to see specialists because there is such a shortage and it is unfortunate. I think that perhaps what turns someone off from going to school to become a psychologist may be the length of time it takes to go to school to earn a degree to become a psychologist and perhaps that needs to change in the future so that more individuals would be willing to go to school to become a psychologist and then the shortage of psychologists would be less of a problem.