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Secondary school managers have warned the Department of Education that time-tabling meetings during class time will lead to a ‘staggering’ loss of teaching hours. Photograph: iStock
Students ‘losing out’ on tuition time due to dispute

Thousands of secondary school students are losing out on tuition time due to an escalating dispute over whether teachers’ professional collaboration m(...)

TUI general secretary John MacGabhann (right) on a teachers’ protest outside Greenhills College in Dublin in 2018. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons
TUI faces €280,000 payout to ASTI over ‘poaching’ claims

The Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) is facing a bill of almost €280,000 in compensation to a rival union over allegations that it had “poached” abou(...)

The union said that 93 per cent of members had voted in favour for directing its members to only attend meetings which were in compliance with the agreed arrangements. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons/The Irish Times
Teachers union backs new junior cycle reforms directive in ballot

The country’s biggest secondary teachers’ union is likely to direct its members to only only attend meetings relating to junior cycle reforms which ar(...)

“Parents and schools pay a lot of attention to feeder school lists, and therefore they are massively important.” Photograph: iStock
Feeder Schools: the arguments around publishing progression data

“Misleading” and “unidimensional” or “hugely popular with parents” and “radical and left wing”? As ever, the publication of today’s feeder school lis(...)

The union represents about 19,000 members in second level schools, colleges of further and adult education and Institutes of Technology/Technological Universities. Photograph: David Sleator/The Irish Times.
Teachers who are members of TUI to stage one-day strike in February

Teachers are to stage a one-day strike in February in a significant escalation of the long-running campaign to end the two-tier pay system in schools.(...)

‘The evidence shows teachers are going abroad or doing other work.’ Photograph: Bryan O’Brien
Retired teachers returning to work to ease recruitment crisis

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(...)

ASTI delegates at its annual convention last year. The union is to hold a ballot of members over the timing of teacher meetings during the school day. Photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish Times
ASTI to ballot over timing of teacher meetings during school day

The country’s biggest secondary teachers’ union is to ballot members over a directive which would require members to only attend meetings relating to (...)

Senior cycle education in secondary school could have a more rigorous vocational dimension, according to an OECD analysis.
Leaving Cert ‘should have greater focus’ on work experience

The Leaving Cert should have a more rigorous vocational focus and give real work-based experience to students, according to a review of senior cycle b(...)

ASTI president Deirdre Mac Donald says additional work generated by Junior Cycle changes are just one of a range of new demands on teachers in recent years. Photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish Times
ASTI warns against senior cycle reform until Junior Cycle changes are evaluated

Major curriculum change at senior cycle level should not take place until there is a comprehensive review of the impact of Junior Cycle changes, a tea(...)

Marks & Spencer has reshaped Irish retail and consumer habits since it first arrived. In the early days Irish people could not get enough of its chicken Kievs, while its Cornish pasties ent down a treat
Marks and Spencer in Ireland says it is ready for anything Brexit can throw at it

“Marks and Spencer has been refused permission to import delicatessen foods for sale at its Mary St department store in Dublin,” the short news report(...)

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