Graduates lose out to unqualified staff [Independent.ie]
- Published: 05 April 2010
MORE than 700 unqualified teachers have been employed by primary and secondary schools despite hundreds of recent teaching graduates struggling to find work.
The situation is particularly severe at primary level, which accounted for the vast majority of the 715 unqualified teachers who have been employed by schools.
Some 629 unqualified teachers were in charge of primary classrooms over the past two years, while 86 were employed at second level, figures obtained by the Irish Independent reveal.
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