Unqualified teachers ban fast-tracked [Independent.ie]
- Published: 27 April 2011
PRIMARY school teachers have threatened to refuse to work in the same school as unqualified staff from September. The Irish National Teachers Organisation (INTO) yesterday delivered the ultimatum by fast-tracking a ban that they had not planned to implement until 2013.
It prompted a positive response from EducatIon Minister Ruairi Quinn who promised to consider the union's idea of panels of qualified teachers from which principals could source staff for substitute or temporary work.
The INTO decision to bring forward their boycott followed revelations in the Irish Independent this week showing hundreds of persons with no teaching qualifications working in primary schools.
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