A union representing secondary school teachers has ruled out industrial action before this year's exams.

The head of the Teachers Union of Ireland has said his members will make up their own minds on whether to accept or reject the deal on pay and reform of the public sector.

The head of the Teachers Union of Ireland is standing over the organisation's recommendation that its members reject the deal on pay and reform in the public sector.

A survey of Ireland's main trade unions has reportedly found that their leaders are paid salaries of up to €172,000.

The Teachers Union of Ireland is calling on all public-sector employers to withdraw immediately from IBEC.

THE transfer of responsibility for payment of teachers in vocational schools to the Department of Education would be firmly resisted, Vocational Education Committees (VECs) and their support staff have warned.

THE Government has been urged to save school computer and technology budgets from the chop in cutbacks it ordered on education spending.

COLLEGE lecturers may go on strike if Education Minister Mary Hanafin removes the job security currently available to them when she legislates for changed third-level funding structures later this year.