INTO refuses to work with untrained staff [IrishExaminer]
- Published: 27 April 2011
EDUCATION Minister Ruairi Quinn faces a race against time to deal with unqualified people being given teaching work after a union decided its members will be banned from hiring or working with them after the summer.
The effects on pupils of being in classrooms with almost 1,000 non-teachers who were given substitution work in primary schools since September were the subject of warnings from Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO) delegates yesterday.
The consequences for thousands of unemployed teachers who have qualified in recent years was the subject of anger at all three teacher union conferences.
The creation of a two-tier pay and pensions system in which trained teachers are being forced out of limited substitution by unqualified people and retired teachers also drew anger from delegates at the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) convention in Cork and Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) congress in Tralee.
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