Many of the teachers and lecturers who took part in strikes today are not directly affected by what they deem "pay discrimination" but see the impact it is having on colleagues, and on the education sector.

Hundreds of secondary schools remain shut as a result of a nationwide strike which has impacted 200,000 students.

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.

Secondary teachers with the Teachers Union of Ireland (TUI) say they will strike for a day in February.

A trade union has warned that the English Language Teaching sector could well be facing into a period of serious industrial relations disruption.

Despite concerns about the introduction of History as a mandatory subject for the Junior Cert, the Minister for Education says he is “confident” that the subject will be integrated well into the reformed curriculum.

School principals have called for more admin support to tackle their increasing workload in what is being referred to in some cases as a “burnout issue".

Secondary school teachers have voted to strike over lower pay for new entrants to the profession.

More than 20 complaints about an ad for a private second-level grinds school, that claims to have ‘better teachers, better results’ have been lodged with the advertising watchdog.

richard hogan This has been a very long week for nearly every young adult and their families on this island. Tuesday revealed the results of the Leaving Certificate, and today will reveal whether or not those results have yielded a place in a desired college. So last night was protracted and restless for many families, as they worried about what this morning would bring for their son or daughter, and how to manage their disappointment should they fall short.

The World Health Organisation recently recognised the existence of parental alienation as a condition. The concept of parental alienation was first coined by Dr Richard Gardner in the 1980s, and refers to the behaviour of one parent against another whereby they deliberately estrange a once loved parent from their children during an acrimonious separation.

Cooking though really is the essential skill I truly believe we have to teach our children.

Parents in Meath are petitioning their only second-level feeder school to postpone their iPad teaching policy for this year's incoming first years until a thorough review is carried out.

More than two-thirds of teachers struggle to make ends meet.

"They don't get a second chance. They don't get to be in primary school for the length of time this review group is taking."

The ongoing pay gap between teachers could lead to strike action, according to the Teacher's Union of Ireland.

The joys of a deputy principal in a small primary school range from chasing mice to unblocking toilets to “cleaning up after lost heifers”, the INTO annual congress has heard.

It is not surprising that the Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) has taken a strong position on the two-tier pay scale.

A new scheme allowing post-primary schools to share teachers will be introduced in September.

The INTO continues to fight for equal pay and pension rights for all teachers and never ‘colluded’ with Government to cut new entrants’ pay, says Sheila Nunan.

The Government has launched the first course in Ireland to enable deaf and hard of hearing people who use Irish Sign Language (ISL) to become primary school teachers.

The Teachers Union of Ireland is warning of a recruitment and retention crisis in our schools.

Almost 100% of principals and deputy principals surveyed on staff numbers, have said their school has had problems recruiting teachers, while more than half said they have had difficulties retaining teachers in the past year.

Teachers have very mixed views on how badly-needed changes to assessment methods for Leaving Certificate should be introduced, early consultations have found.

Recruitment problems for second-level schools are set to worsen as an extra 2,000 teachers are needed just to keep with the looming spike in student numbers, a principals’ leader has warned.

Hundreds of students considering a course to become a primary teacher after their degree will no longer have to take multiple Irish oral tests if they apply to more than one college.

Changes are being introduced to the post-graduate entry process for primary teaching by DCU, Maynooth University, Marino Institute of Education and Mary Immaculate College.

A vote for industrial action in schools could leave more than 36,000 primary teachers thousands of euro out of pocket in pursuit of equal pay for equal work.

The ASTI is calling on the government to urgently address the issue of overcrowding in classrooms.

Experienced teachers say it is unfair to accuse them of abandoning junior colleagues in pay negotiations.

There is a widespread perception that mathematics is inaccessible, and ultimately boring., writes Sue Johnston-Wilder and Davide Penazzi.

Hundreds of primary teachers are to be retrained for secondary schools to help solve staff shortages.

Making religion an optional subject for students at hundreds of second-level schools has forced trainee teachers to look for work abroad, an educationalist has warned.

Members of one of the country’s teaching unions are set to ignore a recent “ham-fisted” Department of Education demand to provide alternative arrangements for students who opt out of religious instruction.

The loss of hundreds of members to a rival union has forced the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) into a campaign to try and win them back.

It is in keeping with the annual whinge-fest from teachers and doctors — I mean conference season — that the issue of pay makes its way to the top of the agenda, writes Daniel McConnell.