TEACHERS must be given more time for planning and other activities outside the classroom if schools are to improve their service to students, a school managers’ leader said yesterday.

A MAJOR teachers’ union is set to ask for a 15% wages hike in an independent pay claim — despite its recent return to the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU).

STUDENTS are losing their entitlement to a full education as teacher training is being provided during school time, a managers’ leader claimed yesterday.