Quinn 'powerless' to get teacher details [Independent.ie]
- Published: 30 September 2011
EDUCATION Minister Ruairi Quinn is powerless to compel schools to reveal the number of unqualified maths teachers in Irish classrooms.
He has twice ordered the Teaching Council to survey all second-level schools to find out how many unqualified teachers there are in order to tackle the growing maths crisis.
However, as the final results of the survey were published yesterday, some 40pc of schools had still not co-operated.
A spokesperson for his department said Mr Quinn would not be seeking any further responses to the survey.
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