Hundreds of schools nationwide are to remain shut today as almost 20,000 educators strike over what they describe as an ongoing failure to eliminate pay discrimination within the teaching profession.

With more than half of Irish students never having sat a computer-based assessment before the OECD’s latest Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) tests, students here received a “significantly and substantially” lower score on the use of digital technology in class compared to other countries.

Changes to the Leaving Certificate cycle should not be made in the near future due to deteriorating” working conditions for teachers, uncertainty around Junior Cycle reform, and general underfunding of education.

There is sufficient scope within the Junior Cycle framework to see History become a mandatory subject again, according to the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland (ASTI).

While young people in Ireland are among the most educated globally, low national investment in education is leading to overstretched schools, teaching unions have warned.

Schools could be required to publish how they will deal with grievances under new proposed legislation aiming to strengthen complaints procedures.

More than 100 complaints about teachers have been lodged with the profession’s regulatory body.

A question on the Northern Ireland Executive may have surprised students sitting the ordinary level politics and society paper as the 2019 Leaving Cert exams officially drew to a close.

The Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland is to recommend that its 18,000 members reject the proposed new public service pay agreement.

Public sector workers who reject the new €880m Lansdowne Road pay agreement will miss out on pay increases contained in the deal, unions leaders are being warned.

Teachers could defy their own union heads in accepting a Government deal.

The Government could face industrial action by thousands of teachers and gardaí if it imposes financial penalties on them for repudiating the Lansdowne Road Agreement.

There is a growing fury among unions, representative bodies, and charities over a plethora is issues piling up as government negotiations continue.

Relief teachers who are members of the ASTI say they are finding themselves impacted because of the union's opposition to the new Junior Cert cycle.

Pay arrangements that can force women back into classrooms weeks after having miscarriages have been described as inhumane.

Cutbacks in schools have left teachers and principals unable to care for the pastoral needs of their students, including their mental health, a second-level teaching union claims.

Members of the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland are to vote on reform of the Junior Cert.

The Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland (ASTI) has stated that its executive was "too busy" to issue an invitation to Education Minister Jan O'Sullivan to attend its annual conference.

The General Secretary of the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland has condemned the treatment of the Education Minister Ruairi Quinn and claims he has been bullied by members of his own organisation.

The Teachers Union of Ireland General Secretary John MacGabhann has said it is time to seriously consider merging with the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland.

The Education Minister Ruairi Quinn says he's "frustrated" with complaints by teachers over the new Junior Cycle.

Education Minister Ruairi Quinn has told ASTI members threatening strike action over the Haddington Road deal to think “carefully” ahead of an upcoming ballot — and to be prepared to face the consequences if they reject the agreement.

The Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland (ASTI) is to ballot members on new Haddington Road proposals.

Teachers say they are unprepared for the new Junior Cert syllabus which will be phased in for first year students from next September.

The Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland (ASTI) has said it regrets any inconvenience to parents as a result of its industrial action.

Junior Certificate students were the first at this level, apart from those in 24 pilot schools, to be tested on Project Maths yesterday morning.

The English papers faced by about 53,000 Leaving Certificate students were based on themes of storytelling and humour.

A major teachers' union has warned the Government that it will consider taking industrial action if there is any attempt to unilaterally impose Croke Park II pay cuts.

Some newly qualified secondary school teachers will have to put up with being employed on an hour-by-hour basis for at least the rest of this decade because of the crisis in the country.

Young teachers are being “betrayed” by the Government’s recession-era policies which are forcing them into undignified working arrangements and onto the emigration boat.

An estimated 2,000 teachers and student teachers are taking part in a protest against education cuts outside Leinster House.

The General Secretary of the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland (ASTI) has said that the union's members may be balloted on withdrawing from the Croke Park deal if teachers' allowances are cut.

Education Minister Ruairi Quinn has said the Government has no plans to change the terms of the Croke Park Agreement.

Education Minister Ruairi Quinn is set to receive a frosty reception from delegates at the Teachers Union of Ireland (TUI) conference today.

It would be a “dreadful shame” if budget cuts result in schools dropping chemistry and physics from the Leaving Certificate programme, a senior academic has said.

A new survey shows 64% of second-level schools may have to drop one or more Leaving Cert subjects next year due to budget cuts.

The General Secretary of the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland will use his address at the annual conference today to hightlight the treatment of newly-qualified teachers.

The Public Service Executive Union (PSEU) conference has endorsed its leadership’s decision to recommend acceptance of the Croke Park agreement on public sector pay and reform.

Secondary teachers have appealed to their retired colleagues to stop "subbing" in schools.

SECONDARY school teachers angrily rejected the public sector pay deal, heralding a split within the trade union movement and the possibility of heightened industrial action in schools.

Delegates from the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland have unanimously agreed to recommend a rejection of the public service agreement in a ballot of its members.

THE union representing more than 18,000 secondary schoolteachers is set to decide on Friday whether or not to reject the public service pay deal in a move which could lead to industrial action in schools.