Warning over full-time rights for temporary teachers

Legislation granting temporary primary school teachers full-time rights without specialised qualifications could impact on the quality of learning in the classroom, it was warned today.

Sean Cotterill, director of the Irish Primary Principles Network, said a teacher who has been working in a part-time or temporary capacity for four or more years in a school would now be entitled to full-time rights under the 2003 Protection of Employees Act.