Secondary teachers are to seek a full restoration of pay, as guaranteed in the Haddington Road Agreement.

The Croke Park agreement, under which teachers work 33 hours per year in non-classroom contact, has been described as the “greatest waste of time ever”.

Most schools have been forced to offer less one-to-one counselling for students and almost half give less guidance to junior cycle classes since a cut imposed by the Department of Education three years ago.

The Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland (ASTI) has stated that its executive was "too busy" to issue an invitation to Education Minister Jan O'Sullivan to attend its annual conference.

Teachers should be allowed give their views on the final junior cycle reform plans instead of their union leaders vetoing them, Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan has said.

The Education Minister Jan O'Sullivan is hopeful that a planned strike by secondary school teachers next month will not go ahead.

Industrial action by secondary school teachers scheduled for January 22 will go ahead unless a solution is found, unions have warned.

It is expected the secondary teachers unions will confirm later that a one-day strike will take place in January.

The Education Minister Jan O'Sullivan says it is not too late to call off tomorrow's teachers strike, but that teachers must make the first move.

Second level teachers have announced two days of strike action over plans to reform the Junior Cert.

The 17,000 members of the country’s largest second-level teaching union have threatened a campaign of strikes over plans to have members assess their own pupils as part of the new Junior Cycle student award.

World Teachers’ Day has just passed and to mark the occasion we, the leaders of all the teachers’ and lecturers’ unions in Ireland and Great Britain would like to pose three questions:

Ireland spends more on each person in education than most countries but teacher unions say the system remains poorly funded.

A jump in the number of students doing an oral Irish test for the Junior Certificate highlights the need to resolve a teachers’ dispute over junior cycle assessment, a principals’ leader has claimed.

The country's largest teachers' union says strike action could be on the cards over the Government's Junior Cert reform.

Teachers have called for the immediate reversal of cuts to guidance counselling in the wake of the ESRI report that showed almost half of young people regretted their college or career choices.

Ireland's largest teachers union has welcomed an ESRI report which has called for a "sea change" in the way secondary schools teach.

Teachers are seeking a meeting with the new Education Minister to resolve the current row over proposed changes to junior cycle assessment.

There has been an increase in the number of primary pupils in "supersize" classes of 30 or more.

Failure to address teachers’ concerns over his junior cycle reform plans has prompted Education Minister Ruairi Quinn to invite unions to talks aimed at breaking the deadlock.

Elected officers of the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland are to investigate their general secretary’s claim that he was bullied and had a death threat made against him on a website used by some of the union’s members.

English teachers at nearly 400 secondary schools could be told not to teach the new junior cycle curriculum under an emergency proposal that might reach their union conference floor today.

The Government has been accused by a union leader of replacing democracy with dictatorship by using the law to force public servants into reduced pay and conditions.

Some teachers may be forced to work to a 12-month year schedule as part of plans to overhaul the further education system.

Parents are to be targeted in a campaign to explain teacher’s educational concerns about Ruairi Quinn’s plans to replace the Junior Certificate with a new system of school-based assessment.

Death threats on a website run by some of his own union’s members were alleged by ASTI’s general secretary yesterday, as he rounded on delegates who abused Education Minister Ruairi Quinn this week.

The teacher who used a megaphone to disrupt the Education Minister's address at the ASTI conference said today that he has no regrets.

The General Secretary of the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland has condemned the treatment of the Education Minister Ruairi Quinn and claims he has been bullied by members of his own organisation.

A strong majority of teachers of English do not accept they had enough training to begin covering a new course next autumn as part of Education Minister Ruairi Quinn’s Junior Cycle reforms.

The new junior cycle student award cannot be implemented in second-level schools, according to almost nine out of 10 teachers.

The Education Minister Ruairí Quinn has indicated he may be willing to negotiate with teachers over his Junior Cert reforms.

Teachers are being reminded by a union not to mark their own students for Junior Certificate oral Irish as pressure mounts over exam reforms.

Ballots for industrial action by the country’s 27,000 second-level teachers over the new junior cycle are to take place next month.

More than 90% of Irish students stay in school to complete the Leaving Certificate.

Two teachers’ unions are to ballot members on withdrawal of co-operation with proposed Junior Certificate reforms.

The ASTI is calling on Minister for Education Ruairi Quinn to "listen to teachers" when it comes to proposed changes to the Junior Cert.

The danger of students at over 500 second-level schools being told to stay at home from mid-January has been averted after the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland voted to accept the Haddington Road Agreement.

The ASTI has voted to sign up to the Haddington Road pay deal.

The Government is on a collision course with 16,000 secondary school teachers, after it told the Association of Secondary Teachers (ASTI) they are obliged to undertake unpaid substitution and supervision duties from next month.

My son is doing his Leaving Certificate this year. I wish to express my disgust at the decision of ASTI members to reject the Haddington Road agreement, which is supported by the other teaching unions and by other unions within the public service.

The ASTI has warned they will not accept compulsory redundancies on the back of a review of pupil teacher ratios in schools.

Half of Ireland's secondary school principals say they don't have the capacity to introduce the new Junior Cycle.

Teachers are warning that secondary schools may close if they escalate their industrial action over pay cuts.

Students and schools could be facing further disruption next year as leaders of a second-level teachers’ union have recommended the rejection of latest proposals on the Haddington Road Agreement.