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Ireland bottom of class when it comes to class sizes and funding: OECD report

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.

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Out-of-control students subject teachers to misogynistic attacks

Management in schools are failing to protect teachers from intimidation, inappropriate sexualised behaviour, and misogynistic attacks from problem students, unions have claimed.

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‘Unequal pay and low retention a threat to teaching’

The retention of teachers and new entrants in a sector with pay inequality is a threat to the education system, a union leader has warned.

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Poetry in motion with Heaney on the double in Leaving Cert English

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Teacher training to go ahead despite union ban

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Teachers urged to act if colleagues are bullied

Quinn told ‘draconian’ law must go

THE Government may have a rethink on a controversial part of the Employment Equality Act, which a union leader claimed discriminates against people on religious grounds.

Thu, 28 Apr, 2011

Green TD warns of severe cuts to education

EDUCATION services may have to be severely cut as a result of the Croke Park deal’s protection of public service wages, Green Party TD Paul Gogarty has warned.

Fri, 22 Oct, 2010

Changes ‘would help students reach potential’

CHANGES should be made to the Leaving Certificate to allow more students, who are not interested in the points race, to reach their potential, teachers and business leaders said last night.

Wed, 07 Jun, 2006

Educational leave from work ‘will boost prospects’

THE poor job prospects of early school-leavers highlight the need for paid educational leave from work, teachers have claimed.

Thu, 16 Feb, 2006

Three-year delay in plans for Leaving Cert overhaul

MAJOR changes to the Leaving Certificate will not impact on students sitting the exam for at least the next three years.

Thu, 05 Jan, 2006

Report calls for inept teachers to be weeded out

ONLY one Irish teacher - out of the country’s 50,000 - was sacked in the past four years for unsatisfactory teaching, according to recent figures.

Thu, 07 Apr, 2005

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