TEACHERS should provide unpaid supervision of classes when colleagues are away with students for class activities or sports matches, Education Minister Batt O’Keeffe has suggested.

LEAVING Certificate students will have to carry out a project in all subjects before their written exams as part of an extensive reform of the system being finalised.

ANNOUNCING their support for the nurses in their pay dispute, the Association of Secondary Teachers’ Ireland (ASTI) yesterday said the power to resolve the matter lies with the greater trade union movement.

SCHOOLS should soon be informed of a ban on appointing teachers to permanent jobs, a union leader said yesterday.

FEARS for teachers losing their jobs in schools with falling student numbers were discussed at a historic meeting of the two, second-level teacher unions yesterday.

THE country’s teachers have sought a 10% salary increase in their claim to the Public Services Benchmarking Body (PSBB).

SECOND-LEVEL teachers have backed their primary counterparts in opposing the publication of school inspection reports, but stopped short of backing their plans to ban co-operation with Department of Education inspectors.