Report calls for inept teachers to be weeded out

ONLY one Irish teacher - out of the country’s 50,000 - was sacked in the past four years for unsatisfactory teaching, according to recent figures.

Despite an OECD report, which calls for a more stringent approach to weed out ineffective teachers, Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) president Paddy Healy insisted adequate procedures are in place for teachers to quit their posts.

“There is no specific hint in this report that there is a problem of ineffective teachers in Ireland.