Schools told job priority must go to qualified teachers

FEW newly graduated teachers will be left without work as long as schools no longer use almost 4,000 unqualified staff, Education Minister Batt O’Keeffe has claimed.

Schools told job priority must go to qualified teachers

Responding to criticisms about the number of graduates who may be unable to get teaching jobs because of cuts in school staffing and other education resources, he said there should be no difficulties.

Almost 2,000 people have already finished primary teacher training degrees this year or will qualify in the autumn, and hundreds more have qualified to work in second-level schools. But with hundreds fewer teaching posts available this year, it has been suggested by teachers’ unions that most will be forced to join the dole queue.

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