25% of ETB teachers on lowest pay

One in four teachers working for education and training boards (ETBs) are on the lowest pay scales, because their careers have only begun since 2011.

The 2,634 lower-paid teachers (LPTs), among 10,500 in the 16 ETBs’ 241 second-level schools, exceed the 2,224 in the much larger number of other second-level schools.

Between 370 religious-owned voluntary secondary schools and 96 community and comprehensive schools, LPTs accounted for just one in eight of the teaching population of 17,816 at the end of the last school year.