Outsourcing non-educational work ‘will ease school principals shortage’

OUTSIDE professionals should be employed by the Department of Education to carry out non-educational work in primary schools and allow principals stick to their own role, an Oireachtas Committee was told yesterday.

The proposal was one of a number of solutions proposed by the Irish Primary Principals’ Network (IPPN) to help alleviate the crisis faced by schools trying to recruit principals.

In a submission to the Oireachtas Education Committee, it said that school boards of management do not have the capacity to fully manage schools.