A post-primary school teacher should not have been put into a less advantageous pension scheme by the Department of Education following its introduction eight years ago under emergency measures to deal with the financial crisis, the High Court has ruled.

The High Court has ordered the case of an art teacher at Blackrock College in Dublin for 34 years to be reconsidered by the Labour Court after it overturned a finding in her favour in relation to her legal status as an employee.

Secondary School union the ASTI has dismissed suggestions strike action by TUI members amounts to election blackmail.

Secondary schools are struggling to recruit teachers as a new study shows that four out of five schools surveyed received no applications for publicly advertised jobs.

One of my favourite novels to teach is Of Mice and Men. I know it’s been on the curriculum forever; I remember watching the film with Gary Sinise in school myself, but Steinbeck’s message is timeless.

They start in August, the recurring back-to-school dreams.

Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO) president Joe Killeen has said his union will stand with its new members on securing pay equality, whether through “negotiation, court challenge or industrial action”.

The President of the Teachers Union of Ireland (TUI), Seamus Lahart, is warning that children will be sent home from school because there are not enough teachers.

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Some of Ireland's principals are among the best paid in Europe, according to a European report.

If only our teachers were this cool when we went to school.

A teacher who manipulated people around the world to sexually abuse children in their care was branded a "malign puppet master" by a judge as he was jailed.

Quotas are to be introduced in certain college courses to prevent an oversupply of secondary school teachers in certain subjects.

Teacher unions will be consulted by a steering group examining ways to deal with the problems schools face in recruiting teachers, the Department of Education has promised.

A teacher at the Florida school where 17 people were shot dead has been arrested after authorities said he left a loaded gun in a public toilet, where a drunk homeless man picked it up and fired it.

A teacher in England accused of having sex with a pupil sent him a card asking "who else can I be a slut with?", a court has heard.

“Teachers are the primary asset of the Irish education sector and should be paid a fair and living wage” Discuss.

Teachers meeting in Kerry say they are 'raging at the Government' over pay and bureaucracy.

More than one in four student teachers consider dropping out due to financial pressures.

Incentives other than increased training places will be needed to keep pace with growing demand for second-level teachers, Education Minister Richard Bruton has been advised.

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A headteacher struggling with the pressures of his position and fighting mental health and drink problems has been fined after being caught drink-driving while in possession of cocaine.

Teachers’ unions have warned that restricting career breaks will make the profession less attractive.

The Education Minister Richard Bruton insists there are adequate numbers of teachers being trained to meet demand.

An investigation is underway at a school in south Dublin after a student found a topless photo of one of his female teachers.

The Education Minister Richard Bruton is hoping teachers on a career break might agree to sub in order to deal with the shortage of part-time teachers.

She tells Maura and Dáithí about losing her eyesight and how she deals within the classroom environment.

Teachers have described as “a well-kept secret” a scheme that allows schools to obtain asthma inhalers for emergencies.

A Co Galway-based secondary school teacher has launched a High Court challenge against her proposed transfer from the school she has taught at for 17 years to another school.

After a rape attack in a school toilet, a teacher took his young victim to meet an international sports star as a treat, a court heard, writes Jimmy Woulfe.

Meetings to end disruption in secondary schools have been continuing over the past week between the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) and Department of Education.

More than 500 schools will almost certainly close from Monday after the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) leadership decided its latest industrial action would go ahead.

The Irish Second-Level Students’ Union (ISSU), the national representative body for second-level students in Ireland, would like to remind everyone that it is the students who are most impacted by these strike days, through no fault of their own.