TUI warns teaching staff can't handle additional workload in re-opening schools

Teachers Union of Ireland Genral Secretary John MacGabhann: Without extra funding, health and safety of staff and students cannot be guaranteed. Picture:Gareth Chaney/Collins

The Teachers' Union of Ireland (TUI) has called for urgent meetings with Simon Harris, the minister for further and higher education, and senior officials in his department, to discuss its concerns around the resources for reopening higher education institutions (HEIs) in September. 

The union has "made it clear" reopening cannot be predicated on additional workloads on lecturers and researchers who, even before the pandemic, had a workload "way above the domestic and international norms".