'Retired' teachers back at work as graduates sign on [Independent.ie]
- Published: 19 October 2010
MORE than 300 retired teachers were employed in primary schools last month, despite up to 1,000 recent graduates being unable to get a job.
The retired staff were back in the classroom as substitutes at a minimum of €195.33 per day.
The primary teachers' union, the Irish National Teachers' Organisation (INTO), has renewed its call on schools to ensure that newly qualified staff get priority for filling any vacancies.
INTO general secretary Sheila Nunan said yesterday that part of the problem was that unemployed teachers had no way of knowing where a vacancy arose, while the schools also needed to know how to contact them.
Retired teachers, by contrast, would be well known to the school.
The union has now called on the minister to establish panels of supply teachers on a regional basis so that available vacancies could be matched with teachers seeking work.
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