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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleRetired 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...
View ArticleTeachers 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...
View ArticleTeachers 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...
View ArticleSweeping 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...
View ArticleGraduate 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...
View ArticleTeachers 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...
View ArticleYoung 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...
View ArticleTeachers 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...
View ArticleThousands 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...
View ArticleHundreds 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...
View ArticleKeeping 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...
View ArticleSchools 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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