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Newly employed teachers are being treated like “galley slaves” and will earn around €300,000 less over a 40-year career than current senior colleagues, the Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) conference has been told.

The Teachers’ Union of Ireland has called for a 1% levy on corporate profits in order to generate additional funding for a resource-starved higher-education sector.

Teachers should not be expected to provide further extra work in return for any restoration of pay cuts of recent years, delegates at the Teachers’ Union of Ireland congress told their officials.

Extra hours, preparing classes, and student corrections are among the heaviest duties for second-level teachers, who have almost all seen their workload increase significantly in five years, a survey suggests.

Hopes of a breakthrough in the teachers’ dispute with the Government over junior cycle reform look slim, despite fresh talks planned next week.

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Education Minister Jan O'Sullivan has held a "constructive" meeting with secondary teachers' unions to hear their concerns about Junior Cycle reforms.

A union representing 16,000 second-level teachers and Institute of Technology lecturers has warned Government to expect a ballot box backlash next month as a direct result of the “misery” that has been inflicted on the sector.

A merger of two of the country’s second-level teaching unions appears to have moved a step closer, after the leaders of both groups said the current separation was “absurd and certainly wasteful” and one voted in favour of entering talks on the deal.

Young teachers are being forced to take up second jobs at night because cuts to their school hours mean they are not paid enough to survive.

The Teachers Union of Ireland General Secretary John MacGabhann has said it is time to seriously consider merging with the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland.

Institutes of technology could face industrial action by academic staff if they fail to consult them or try to change their conditions in any mergers to form technological universities (TUs), a union has warned.

School managers have rejected claims that they are unable or unwilling to deal with intimidating and violent student behaviour.

Violence, intimidation, and verbal abuse by students are on the rise and risk getting worse because of cuts to guidance and other roles, a teachers’ union has warned.

Teacher unions and others that remain opposed to €300m public sector pay cut proposals will be subjected to laws cutting higher salaries and other work changes, Enda Kenny said yesterday.

The TUI has hit out at a possible “absurd effect” of new national vetting legislation that will make it illegal, for a period of time, for schools to employ new teachers in any capacity.

The Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) has threatened the Government that teachers will withdraw from activities carried out normally on a goodwill basis because of Croke Park II demands.

As two investigations continue into the death of a member of the governing body of UCC, tributes have been paid to the man who worked at the university for 27 years.

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A teachers’ representative says they will consider examining their own students for Junior Certificate but only if it is done in their normal teaching time, or if they will be paid for it.

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The rush to secure university status could do more damage than good to some institutes of technology, the Teachers’ Union of Ireland congress heard.

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.

Any cut to teacher allowances would be a breach of the Croke Park agreement and would result in the end of reforms under the deal, a union has warned.

PROPOSED reforms of the college entry points system should bring major benefits for second-level students, the Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) has claimed.

SECONDARY schools operating enrolment policies which exclude Travellers, non-English speaking and special needs students should not be receipt of Government funding.

STUDENTS have rejected Éamon Ó Cuív’s claim he was protecting himself and an assistant when he grabbed a protester during a demonstration in Galway on Tuesday night.

A Government minister today insisted he was right to restrain a protesting student after a noisy demonstration over education cutbacks turned nasty.

SCHOOLS that have welcomed special needs students are set to be crippled by paperwork because the Department of Education has not penalised schools which exclude them, teachers have warned.

IT IS encouraging to see the Teachers’ Union of Ireland take up the cudgel on behalf of those it says are at an educational disadvantage.

THE number of school psychologists should be almost doubled immediately to ease the crisis of second-level students with special needs waiting years for vital assessments, a teachers’ leader has claimed.

THE second-level school system faces an avalanche of students with special needs but does not have the resources to offer the supports they require, the Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) has claimed.

MAJOR changes to the Leaving Certificate will not impact on students sitting the exam for at least the next three years.

EDUCATION Minister Mary Hanafin has been criticised for again delaying crucial reforms of Leaving Certificate subjects critical to the country’s economic future.

GIRLS have once again far outperformed boys with high grades in the Leaving Certificate, with little sign of course changes which might help close the gender gap.

AN elderly couple died of carbon monoxide poisoning in their home after a gas flue was blocked over, an inquest heard yesterday.

STEPHEN MacGABHANN will make his Championship debut with Meath in Sunday’s Leinster clash with Wicklow in Croke Park.