Hundreds of teachers ‘still temporary after five years’

HUNDREDS of second-level teachers have been working in the same schools for more than five years without being given a permanent job, a major survey reveals.

There are more than 3,000 non-permanent teachers in the country's 750 second-level schools, most of them represented by the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI).

Research published by the union over the weekend revealed almost one-fifth of them have been in their current school for at least five years, indicating around 600 people are in this position. The survey which was answered by more than 1,000 teachers found that 3% almost 100 of all non-permanent staff have been teaching in the same school for more than a decade.