INTO refuses to work with untrained staff

EDUCATION Minister Ruairi Quinn faces a race against time to deal with unqualified people being given teaching work after a union decided its members will be banned from hiring or working with them after the summer.

The effects on pupils of being in classrooms with almost 1,000 non-teachers who were given substitution work in primary schools since September were the subject of warnings from Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO) delegates yesterday.

The consequences for thousands of unemployed teachers who have qualified in recent years was the subject of anger at all three teacher union conferences.