Published: 11 August 2011

Classroom chaos must be avoided

THE education system could lose more than 1,000 teachers before February, just 12 weeks before the Leaving Cert starts.

Our story today reveals that senior teachers are likely to retire before this date next year to save their pension entitlements being cut.

Such a mass exodus could leave thousands of students without a teacher who would have spent 18 months preparing them for exams.

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