Teachers angered over education cuts have accused the Government of breaking election promises.

The figures show state-sponsored privilege in education must be ended, writes Gerard Craughwell

Rising student numbers and workload increases are limiting the time available for teaching, support, and research by falling numbers of institute of technology lecturers, their union claims.

EDUCATION Minister Ruairi Quinn defended his broken election promise not to increase student fees by saying he preferred to spend the money on vulnerable students in schools.

THE Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) has taken the controversial decision to wait until after the election to ballot members on proposed work reforms in schools and colleges.

THE Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) is set to enter talks on the Croke Park public service pay agreement after members have voted to lift industrial action in schools and colleges.

THE Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) is to ballot its 15,500 members on whether they should end industrial action so they can enter talks on the Croke Park public service reform agreement.

THE Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) will be under pressure today to consider lifting industrial action in schools and colleges after a sister union decided to put the question to its executive.

PARENTS of school children are being put under enormous financial pressure due to the frequency of new editions of school textbooks.

THE Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) has unanimously voted against the public service pay agreement and threatened potential strike action from September in response to the latest Cabinet cutbacks.

The Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) has responded to comments attributed to Minister Batt O’Keeffe that elements of a deal related to public service reform almost agreed last week could form the basis for talks next year.

The Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) today stated that any changes to the Junior Certificate programme should only be for reasons that would benefit students rather than to generate savings to the Exchequer.

THE Teachers’ Union of Ireland’s (TUI) directive on class sizes is not the only instruction to teachers likely to cause industrial relations tensions in the country’s 4,000 schools which have already started opening their doors.

The Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) has said that public sector pay and conditions cannot be used as a punching bag as the country works towards economic recovery.

THE Teachers’ Union of Ireland has claimed that for every group of students that starts secondary school each year, the number who do not complete the Leaving Certificate will end up costing the State €4bn over a 40-year working life, or €100m per year.

LECTURERS and other staff at Waterford Institute of Technology have protested against a barrier parking system at the college’s main campus.

THE Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) views the recent report of the public service benchmarking body with extreme disappointment.

A TEACHERS’ union has taken out advertisements in national newspapers to protest at what it calls Government failure to properly invest in further education.

THE Teachers’ Union of Ireland has condemned the recent deportations of non-national students, especially their forced removal from schools.

THE Teachers’ Union of Ireland has called on Education Minister Mary Hanafin to immediately implement major recommendations contained in a 2003 report on reform of the further and adult education sector.