Procedures to deal with under-performing teachers to be in place by September

TEACHERS who under-perform will be dealt with under procedures to be in place before the beginning of the next school year.

Education Minister Mary Hanafin said that under the plans, schools themselves will have to deal with teachers who have complaints made against them.

The measures were proposed in talks with teacher unions and school management bodies as part of a commitment in the Towards 2016 social partnership deal.