TUI seeks removal of additional third-level lecture time

The Teachers’ Union of Ireland is to seek the complete removal of extra lecturing hours imposed as part of the Croke Park Agreement.

The two extra hours agreed by the unions were reduced to one in subsequent talks, but Martin Marjoram, a member of the TUI executive committee, says the reality is that the “flex” hour imposes several more working hours on lecturers.

“Flex hours are additional lecturing hours that were, to our mind, imposed on TUI members who are lecturers in institutes of technology at the time of the Croke Park Agreement,” said Mr Marjoram, a lecturer in the Institute of Technology Tallaght.