Coughlan to ease ban on key jobs for teachers [Independent.ie]
- Published: 06 April 2010
EDUCATION Minister Mary Coughlan is to partially lift a jobs ban on key teaching roles which threatens to close schools this autumn.
In her first significant decision since taking over the education portfolio, the Tanaiste will soften the Government's stance on the controversial issue.
She has agreed to a "limited alleviation" of the ban on filling key middle management posts in schools.
Secondary schools have already lost 900 assistant principal posts in the past year and hundreds of additional post- holders will retire this summer.
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