Unemployment concern for teachers [dundalkdemocrat.ie]
- Published: 27 April 2011
Unemployment is the single biggest challenge facing primary school teachers, union leaders have claimed.
The president of the Irish National Teachers' Organisation called on the Government not to consign a generation of young, talented and highly skilled teachers to the dole queues in Ireland or classrooms in other countries.
Jim Higgins said unemployment was an inevitable result of the cuts in school staffing implemented after last year's austerity programme.
Some 700 posts were cut from primary education after the Budget, it maintained.
Mr Higgins told the INTO annual conference that while there might not be compulsory redundancies from the Croke Park Agreement, there are collateral redundancies.
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