Teachers unions and groups working with young people have welcomed Education Minister Richard Bruton’s plans for a review of sex education in schools.

One of the country’s largest unions has voted to accept the new public service pay deal, but has warned that it expects discussions aimed at ending the two-tier pay scales currently imposed upon its members.

Moira Leydon of the Association of Secondary Teachers of Ireland outlines her organisation’s perspective on what can be done to improve our education system.

The Minister for Education is set to hear calls for pay rises for teachers at unions' conferences this week.

The Government has avoided potential industrial action by bringing forward a €1,000 pay increase for public workers.

Secondary schools could face closures in the coming months as teachers prepare to ballot on pay and reform proposals which their union recommends be rejected.

The head of the Garda Representative Association (GRA) has survived a motion of no confidence as members of the force consider a Labour Court pay deal.

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Thousands of mostly-young teachers must wait at least another month before the Department of Education sorts out delays in putting them on the right pay rates.

I, and the Student Council of St Patrick’s Classical School, Navan, are supporting the continued industrial action taken by our teachers in our school and around the country who oppose the implacement of the current reforms of the Junior Certificate, which are being implemented by the current Minister for Education and Skills, Jan O’Sullivan.

To resist unsound changes to the junior cycle being imposed by Government, members of the Association of Secondary Teachers of Ireland (ASTI) and the Teachers Union of Ireland (TUI) have voted overwhelmingly for industrial action.

Secondary school teachers have voted to go on strike over the planned reform of the Junior Cycle.

The recently published ESRI report, ‘Leaving School in Ireland: A Study of Post-School Transitions’, highlights the critical importance of the career guidance service in a student’s journey through second-level school and beyond.

Teachers have called for the immediate reversal of cuts to guidance counselling in the wake of the ESRI report that showed almost half of young people regretted their college or career choices.

Up to 27,000 teachers will protest outside secondary schools across the country, over their concerns about planned changes to the Junior Cert.

Secondary school teachers are planning to hold lunchtime protests on March 11th over their opposition to the new Junior Cycle.

More than 90% of Irish students stay in school to complete the Leaving Certificate.

The ASTI has voted to sign up to the Haddington Road pay deal.

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The recent decision of the 17,000 members of the Association of Secondary Teachers of Ireland to reject the Haddington Road proposals was pragmatic.

TODAY, 17,000 teachers who are members of the Association of Secondary Teachers of Ireland begin industrial action.

The Taoiseach has appealed to 17,000 secondary school teachers to “reflect very seriously” on their decision to withdraw from meetings with parents and other duties “at this time of economic challenge for our country”.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has fiercely defended the Education Minister amid warnings that teachers threatening industrial action could be in danger of compulsory redundancies.

Secondary school teachers have vowed to follow through with industrial action over pay cuts by refusing to work outside normal hours.

The Teachers' Union of Ireland (TUI) has voted to accept the Haddington Road Agreement by a majority of 54% to 46%, on a turnout of 65%.

Secondary schoolteachers are to take industrial action over the revised public sector pay deal.

Public servants face compulsory redundancies unless they accept a new deal on cuts in pay and pensions, the Government has warned.

The country’s largest teachers’ union will decide tomorrow whether to re-enter talks on a revised public sector pay deal.

The eight union executives which have urged their members reject the Croke Park II deal will meet officially for the first time next week to discuss a strategy to “protect existing pay rates and terms and conditions”.

The protest rally by about 2,000 teachers outside Leinster House yesterday raises many issues. The three main teacher unions — the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation, the Association of Secondary Teachers of Ireland, and the Teachers’ Union of Ireland — were remonstrating against educational cuts.

Senior civil servants have vowed to fight the abolition of their allowance for representing Ireland at meetings of the EU and other international organisations.

The Government has failed in its target to save €75m in a slash-and-burn of public sector pay bonuses.

MORE than 30,000 teachers will receive pay increases worth almost €22 million next year, while students and their families suffer another round of cutbacks.

IRELAND has improved its grade when it comes to students’ ability to read computer-based text — but the level is behind that of a decade ago.

THE Irish Congress of Trade Unions is to stage a national demonstration potentially involving hundreds of thousands of people angry at the Government’s austerity measures.

Ireland had one of the lowest education budgets among developed nations as the boom years drew to a close, an independent study revealed today.

Jack Keane is the new President of the Association of Secondary Teachers of Ireland.

Education chiefs vowed tonight to increase pressure on schools to improve sex education after a shocking survey revealed three-quarters of teenagers are not taught the subject.

Secondary schools are to get guidelines on how to combat the harassment of gay and lesbian teachers.

The Government tonight vowed to press ahead with €1.3bn public sector pay cuts after talks with unions on alternatives dramatically collapsed.

MORE than 65,000 teachers and lecturers will take to the picket line in 10 days’ time, leaving the parents of almost 800,000 school pupils needing to arrange childcare on November 24.