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- Published: 26 April 2011
The union representing primary school teachers, the INTO, have voted to direct its members not to work alongside unqualified teachers in schools from next September.
The directive comes following revelations that 400 people with no teaching qualifications worked for at least 50 days in primary schools in the current school year, while thousands of graduates struggle to find work. Today’s directive by the union fast tracks a 2008 decision not to work alongside unqualified people in schools from 2013.
The INTO is continuing its three day annual conference in Sligo today. The Education Minister Rurai Quinn says he wants to clampdown on the practice of schools hiring in people to teach, who have no teaching qualifications. He says he hopes to bring this to an end by next September.
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