'Swamped' principals want extra posts to cater for influx of Ukrainian students

Schools will be unable to meet the challenges caused by the fallout from the pandemic and provide for an influx of Ukrainian students without additional school leadership posts, teachers have warned.

Schools will be unable to meet the challenges caused by the fallout from the pandemic and provide for an influx of Ukrainian students without additional school leadership posts, teachers have warned.

Principals and deputy principals are “already swamped by administrative and bureaucratic overload”, Michael Gillespie, general secretary of the Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) told delegates at its annual congress in Wexford.