Teacher Redeployment [into.ie]
- Published: 24 June 2011
Friday, 24 June 2011
Statement by Sheila Nunan, INTO General Secretary, on Teacher Redeployment ?
Thousands of temporary posts in primary schools to be filled.
The INTO welcomed the announcement today that over eight hundred permanent teachers have already been redeployed to other primary schools. As a result, schools have been cleared by the Department of Education and Skills to fill thousands of temporary vacancies. However, larger schools must still not fill a small number of temporary posts for the time being. Up to today there was a ban on filling any temporary job because of the need to firstly redeploy permanent teachers.
The union said most redeployment panels were now cleared or only have a small number of teachers awaiting redeployment.
According to the union this is good news for temporary teachers because schools are now free to offer significant numbers of temporary or fixed term posts.
Permanent jobs will still have to be filled firstly from the main redeployment panel which is made up of permanent teachers whose jobs are no longer warranted in their schools. This year hundreds of additional teachers have had to redeploy because of government cutbacks.
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