The education system cannot be funded by getting teachers to pay for it by cutting their pay and eroding working conditions, Teachers’ Union of Ireland president Bernie Ruane said.

Teachers have sent the Government a clear message that it faces industrial unrest in schools and colleges if it tries to cut their pay.

Primary, secondary and third level teachers are threatening industrial action if the Government breaches pay agreements made in the Croke Park Agreement.

PAY, pensions, and other conditions are common themes in the motions for debate by all three teacher unions this week.

The dropping of Leaving Certificate subjects by schools faced with staffing cuts could be damaging to the country’s chances of international investment, the chairman of the Higher Education Authority has said.

A Teacher's Union is warning the government that the consequences of cutbacks in education will be dire, and could lead to students dropping out of schools.

IRISH teachers have criticised a report which says they are among the best paid in the world as “beyond historic”.

IVAN Yates makes several assertions (Opinion, September 1), some of which are completely false, some of which need to be put in a proper context, and some of which defy logic.

SCHOOLBOOK publishers should be in a position to cut prices because rising student numbers mean more sales, the Teachers’ Union of Ireland has claimed.

The points for college courses in science, technology and agriculture have increased dramatically this year.

THERE are 2,152 fewer people than a year ago still with no offer of a college place from the Central Applications (CAO) office despite a jump in the points needed for hundreds of courses.

Education Minister Ruairi Quinn has vowed to shake up the Leaving Certificate amid concerns that continued poor maths and science results highlight the need for wider reform.

TEACHERS claim a drop in standards and numbers taking the Leaving Certificate Applied is a direct consequence of cutbacks in schools.

MORE than seven weeks of waiting ends for approx-imately 55,500 students when they receive their Leaving Certificate results tomorrow.

HARD-UP families are seeking help from the St Vincent de Paul Society to buy schoolbooks.

EDUCATION Minister Ruairi Quinn rejected calls by second-level teachers for the lifting of a moratorium on the filling of promotional posts.

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.

A new survey conducted among principals by the Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) shows the "devastating" impact that the cutbacks have had on the most vulnerable students in the education system, it was claimed today.

THE leader of the 15,000-member Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) has warned the union could withdraw from the Croke Park Agreement.

Education is a human right which appears to have no place in the balance sheet of Ireland’s financiers, a union said today.

TEACHERS will be left in no doubt by Education Minister Ruairi Quinn over the next three days that there is no extra funding to reverse cutbacks in schools.

COLLEGE lecturers will only introduce reforms if changes being discussed with the Department of Education are acceptable to them, a union leader has said.

Investment in education is critical to pulling Ireland out of recession, the presidents of the country’s four teaching unions warned today.

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

Parents are facing high school book costs because publishers keep issuing new editions of textbooks even though the school syllabus hasn't changed.

INCREASED competition for third-level places has seen points rise across almost half of all courses offering entry to just under 48,500 people today.

THE minds of most of this year’s school leavers will already be turning to the confirmation of college courses, a process which begins in earnest next Monday.

THE Civil, Public and Services Union (CPSU) is to re-ballot its 13,000 members on the terms of the Croke Park deal and said it is ending the action it has been holding in a number of Government departments.

Bernie Ruane has been elected as the new president of the Teacher's Union of Ireland (TUI).

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.

STRIKE action was yesterday unanimously endorsed by the Teachers’ Union of Ireland in opposition to the education cutbacks, which include the loss of teaching posts and the abolition of the book grant scheme.