Teacher pay and school funding on agenda of conferences

Education Correspondent Jess Casey looks at issues 85,000 educators will consider at their annual union conferences this week

Key topics at the INTO annual meeting include school funding, special education, teacher supply, and the primary school curriculum. Picture: iStock

Pay, industrial relations, and the funding and resourcing of education will dominate the agenda this week as 85,000 teachers gather at their annual congresses across the country.

The Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO) annual congress gets under way in Killarney today, Monday, while the annual conferences of the Association of Secondary Teachers’ Ireland (ASTI) and the Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) both open tomorrow, Tuesday.