TEACHERS without permanent jobs face greater threats of bullying from students or colleagues because it’s harder for them to raise problems with management, a conference heard yesterday.

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.

THE decision of the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) to appoint an RTÉ producer as its deputy general secretary has led to the resignation of a prominent member.

A GENERAL secretary could be in place at the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) within weeks as the position is being advertised in newspapers this week.

THE Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland is set to appoint a general secretary, more than a year after Charlie Lennon resigned from the job.

WHY has Education Minister Noel Dempsey not publicly welcomed the latest CSO figures which show that Ireland comes second in literacy level achievement in Europe?

The three NUI Senators, Quinn, Ryan and O'Toole, are to be congratulated for retaining their seats in the recent Seanad Elections.

COUNTING in the Seanad elections today enters its final day when all of the 49 seats should be filled.

Delegates at the ASTI’s annual conference in Co Donegal have called for secondary school teachers to be paid €34 per hour for Leaving and Junior Cert exam work.