Jess Casey: A lot to occupy the minds of teachers at their union gatherings

Leaving Cert reform and funding — along with the challenges presented by Covid, the cost of living, and war in Ukraine — will be on the agenda at this week's teachers' conferences

Leaving Cert reform will be one of the items discussed as the TUI, the ASTI (above), and the INTO, hold their annual conferences this week. File picture: Eamonn Keogh

It is a very different world since the last time the country’s three teachers’ unions held their annual conferences in person.

In 2019, not many of us could have foreseen the impact a global pandemic would have on our daily lives, and now we’re also facing war in Europe, and spiralling inflation.