Association Of Secondary Teachers

The Government is concerned over its exposure to legal action by students who may miss out on college places following its decision to replace the Lea(...)

Schools are to be given the freedom to decide whether to run school-based assessments for Junior Cycle students during May. The move means exams that(...)

Several hundred schools across the country are closed on Tuesday as part of an ongoing campaign against a two-tier pay system by the Teachers’ Union o(...)

The number of retired teachers returning to schools to help deal with teacher shortages rose by a fifth (21 per cent) last year to 1,626. Data releas(...)

A teacher who allegedly called a male pupil “a little bitch” was denied a proper disciplinary process, the High Court has ruled. Ms Justice Deirdre (...)

The year 1984 became notorious for a number of stories involving women, pregnancy outside marriage, and their treatment by society, church and State(...)

The State examinations begin today for some 124,000 pupils with a range of new measures aimed at reducing stress and anxiety levels. Youth mental hea(...)

The Association of Secondary Teachers of Ireland is to waive penalties against former members who left the union during its controversial campaign of (...)

Minister for Education Richard Bruton has been accused of “blaming” trade unions for not prioritising the restoration of pay for new entrant teachers (...)

The way the Leaving Cert is structured is maximising stress on students and leading to crippling levels of anxiety, parents’ representatives have clai(...)