Proposals aim to end half-day school closures for teacher meetings [IrishTimes]
- Published: 12 November 2010
THE PRACTICE of schools closing for half days for teacher meetings and training is set to end under new Department of Education proposals for more “parent-friendly’’ schooling.
The department is also proposing new procedures to monitor the workload of lecturing staff at third level.
The new proposals are set out in the department’s plan for 90,000 education employees, prepared as part of the Croke Park agreement on public service reform.
The agreement requires teachers to work an additional hour per week.
The department says it wants to reduce the “existing deficit in the operation of schools” which results in school planning and staff and other meetings “intruding on class-contact time”.
It plans a new protocol from January which will ensure the additional hour is used to reduce the need for school closure.
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