Teaching becoming a 'halting site in between better jobs' [Independent.ie]
- Published: 09 April 2010
UNEMPLOYED architects and lawyers, as well as retired teachers, are taking substitute work from young, jobless graduates, the ASTI conference was told yesterday.
Greta Harrison of the West Mayo branch said that teaching was "a bad job in the good times and a good job in bad times".
She said it was galling to see unemployed professionals who did not choose teaching suddenly looking towards it and getting hours while young people who had trained as teachers were sitting on their hands.
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