Teacher watchdog fails to set up urgent probe into maths crisis [Independent.ie]
- Published: 01 September 2011
THE teaching watchdog has no plans to carry out an urgent probe into the number of unqualified maths teachers in second-level schools.
This is in spite of the admission by the Teaching Council's chief executive yesterday that such a move would be a "very simple exercise" that could begin within days.
Despite the urgent need to tackle the maths crisis, the council, which regulates the teaching profession, said it had no plans to contact schools immediately to establish exactly how many unqualified teachers were teaching maths.
A Teaching Council spokeswoman told the Irish Independent: "Getting the numbers alone will not solve the problem."
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