Union to continue opposing junior cycle plan

The largest secondary teachers’ union, the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (Asti), decided last night to continue its current industrial action against junior cycle reforms.

The decision was announced after the union’s national executive met for more than four hours in Dublin to discuss why members rejected the junior certificate reform plan.

But the Minister for Education, Jan O’Sullivan said earlier in the day that plans to reform the junior cycle were “not in tatters” following Thursday’s ballot result by the ASTI members.