SCHOOL staff were still in shock yesterday after an English teacher’s nose and teeth were broken in a heated row with a pupil over a mobile phone.

THE Government’s entire budget for dealing with student misbehaviour was spent on recruiting staff and establishing an administrative office, according to the Labour Party.

THE gap in Ireland’s two-tier education system is increasing, the president of the 14,000-member Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI), Paddy Healy, claimed yesterday.

CLASSROOM indiscipline is now top of the teachers’ agenda, edging out pay, the Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) conference heard yesterday.

THE student behaviour task force report must be fully implemented if Government wants to curtail the problems in classrooms, teachers warned last night.

SOME schools are adopting selective enrolment policies to allow them dump troublesome students on public sector schools, a teachers’ leader has claimed.

The Teachers Union of Ireland (TUI) has questioned the Government's commitment to tackling indiscipline in Irish classrooms.

The Teachers Union of Ireland has said large class sizes are contributing to the growing problem of indiscipline among second-level students.

THE Teachers' Union of Ireland has criticised the "woefully inadequate" support system for teachers trying to tackle the growing problem of disruptive students in class.

SCHOOLS must be given extra staff to cater for students whose behaviour disrupts the education of other children, according to the Teachers Union of Ireland (TUI).

TACKLING unruly behaviour and indiscipline at school is now more important to teachers than pay issues, the Teachers Union of Ireland (TUI) said yesterday.

THE ASTI’s pay dispute is far from over despite weekend steps to leave hard-line tactics behind, according to leaders of the secondary teachers’ union.