Cost-of-living crisis is worsening 'dire teacher shortage', says TUI

Earlier this year, TUI members forwent a general 1% pay increase under the public-sector pay deal Building Momentum, so that the equivalent funding would allow for the reinstatement of the Postgraduate Masters in Education (PME) allowance to those appointed after 2012. 

A severe teacher shortage in schools is being exacerbated by the cost-of-living crisis, a teachers’ union has warned as it called for a key allowance to be restored.

The Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) is warning that pay is adding to a severe teacher recruitment and retention problem, impacting on both the attractiveness of, and morale within, the profession.