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Boom babies need 3,000 new teachers

The massive increase will be required to cope with the surge in school enrolments at primary and post-primary level as a result of the baby boom. The additional recruits will only be enough to keep...

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New teachers still owe State €1m

More than €1m overpaid to nearly 3,000 new teachers in the first half of 2011 has yet to be recovered by the Department of Education. The Comptroller & Auditor General’s report said it should have...

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Retired staff still getting jobs ahead of new teachers

RETIRED teachers are back working in primary schools in jobs that should be going to the thousands of graduates struggling for work. This is despite strict new rules designed to ensure that...

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Teachers on alert as up to 80 allowances targeted for cuts

AROUND 12,000 teachers and education staff are facing substantially more allowance cuts than have already been announced. Department of Education officials say they are looking at axing as many as 80...

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Teachers flood schools with job applications

UNEMPLOYED teachers are flooding schools with applications for jobs. The postbox at a Dublin primary school was filled to overflowing every day for a fortnight after it advertised two short-term...

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Sweeping changes for teacher training in Ireland

The Minister for Education, Ruairi Quinn, is considering sweeping changes to the way teachers are trained in Ireland.   Mr. Quinn was speaking at an Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and...

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Graduate teachers struggle to get jobs as retirees rehired

RETIRED teachers are being employed on long-term contracts in primary schools, while unemployed graduates struggle to find work. This is despite a pledge by Education Minister Ruairi Quinn to end the...

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Teachers to lose supervision and substitution pay under new deal

However, sources said a compromise may be reached that means the payments are still made to teachers on short-term contracts or minimum hours. They said this was a preferred option for education...

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Young teachers protected from worst of the cuts

Younger teachers have been protected from the worst of the cuts in the education sector. The deal has gone some way to tackle two-tier pay scales and restore losses suffered by those who entered the...

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Teachers and principals could face a review every year

THE chief schools inspector has raised the prospect of annual reviews of the performance of teachers and principals. Harold Hislop pointed out that, unlike some countries, Ireland has no system of...

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Thousands of teachers hit in pocket as increment freeze begins

THOUSANDS of second-level teachers and university lecturers face losing their increments from next week because they haven’t accepted the Haddington Road deal. The harsh reality is brought home in...

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Hundreds of teachers axed despite surge in enrolments

THE country’s 720 post-primary schools have lost 650 teachers at a time when student numbers rose by 3,800. The teacher cuts at second-level translate into fewer subject choices for students and less...

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Keeping up with technology: small school launches its app for parents

A small, rural national school with a total of 56 pupils and three classrooms has just launched its own app. Parents of pupils at Inch National School in Co Tipperary will be able to send and receive...

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Schools call for changes in funding

THE trustees of post-primary schools traditionally run by the religious have called for a new way of funding second-level education, to ensure that all sectors are treated equally. They were responding...

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