Budget 2017: Threat to extra teaching posts
They include 550 new jobs to allow for teachers taking part in training linked to junior cycle reforms. A further 150 primary and second-level teachers will be needed as a reformed middle-management structure is introduced next autumn.
They are among 2,400 extra teachers promised by the end of 2017 in Education Minister Richard Bruton’s budget of €9.5bn, a €458m or 5.1% increase on what was allocated to the Department of Education a year ago.
