One in four teachers does not know if school has social media policy

The findings of the research were used to formulate guidelines on the use of social media by teachers which were published by the Teaching Council earlier this year.

Almost 40% of school principals and deputy principals said their school did not have a policy on social media use by teachers while 5% said they did not know whether such a policy existed in their school, according to research carried out by the Teaching Council.

The survey of almost 5,000 teachers revealed that 39% of principals and deputy principals and 27% of teachers worked in schools where no policy on the use of social media existed, while another 25% of teachers said they did not know whether their school had such a policy.