INTO warns of jobs 'crisis' [IrishTimes]
- Published: 26 April 2011
Ireland is facing a crisis in teacher employment next year if cuts in school staffing are not reversed, the primary teachers' union has warned.
Delegates at the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation conference in Sligo have been told that hundreds of newly qualified teachers are without regular work and, with 700 jobs in primary schools to go in September, the situation is set to worsen.
The union warned that a further 2,000 primary teachers will face emigration or unemployment when they graduate from colleges of education in May.
Teacher employment is the single biggest challenge facing primary teachers now, INTO president Jim Higgins told the 750 delegates today.
The cutbacks planned for next September and further threatened reductions as part of the four year austerity plan would take even more teachers out of the system, Mr Higgins warned.
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