School teachers will refuse to work with unqualified staff in the classroom as concerns soar over thousands of trained teachers out-of-work.

IN response to Niall Murray (March 28), it makes sense that the more you read, the better reader you become; through repeated practice, you become more fluent, learn more words, and continue to gain the skills and knowledge that hook you into a lifelong love of reading.

GOVERNMENT plans to tackle falling literacy levels can only be achieved if schools are properly staffed and funded, a teachers’ leader has claimed.

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

EXAMS authorities have assured Junior Certificate students that an error on one of this year’s business papers did not cost them grades.

ALMOST 58,000 students collecting their Leaving Certificate results have been urged to keep things in perspective and stay safe in the pubs and on the roads.

Jack Keane is the new President of the Association of Secondary Teachers of Ireland.

SECONDARY school teachers angrily rejected the public sector pay deal, heralding a split within the trade union movement and the possibility of heightened industrial action in schools.

SHANNON have lost their appeal against the €25,000 fine imposed on them by the IRFU disciplinary committee arising out of incidents involving senior members of the club and referee George Clancy at the conclusion of last month’s AIB League game against Cork Constitution at Coonagh.

TEACHERS yesterday urged parents to support a call for inspectors to stay away from schools in the final term of the school year because of exam pressure.

The head of the British Army during the invasion of Iraq has labelled post-war US policy “intellectually bankrupt”, it was reported today.

THE second week of State exams began with second papers in maths followed by geography yesterday afternoon.

US President George W Bush today opened three days of intensive consultations on Iraq, aiming to reverse the course of the nearly four-year-old war and energise his final two years in office.

THE final maths exam came for thousands of students who sat the Leaving Certificate second papers yesterday morning.