Half of teachers’ work outside the classroom [IrishExaminer]
- Published: 02 April 2010
TEACHERS are spending more than half their working time in activities outside the classroom, with average working weeks of up to 46 hours, a survey has found.
Although a full-time, second-level teacher is contracted to spend 22 hours teaching, the research for the Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) found that they spend an average of 24 hours a week working outside timetabled teaching hours.
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Teachers working 46 hours a week [IrishTimes]
- Published: 02 April 2010
SECOND LEVEL teachers work an average of 46 hours a week – though they are only paid for 22 hours, according to a new survey.
The Behaviour Attitudes survey on behalf of the Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) also indicates a dramatic decline in discipline.
Some 80 per cent of teachers say discipline and conflict issues are increasing, distracting from the core business of teaching and learning.
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ICTU: Pay deal is best possible scenario [IrishExaminer]
- Published: 02 April 2010
WITH a second teaching union pushing for the public service pay deal to be voted down, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions has warned it is the best that can be achieved through negotiation and full and disruptive strikes are the only alternative.
The standing committee of the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland, which represents 18,000 teachers, yesterday expressed "total and vehement" objection to the deal hammered out in Croke Park on Tuesday. That position is likely to be adopted by its full 180-member executive council which makes decisions on any salary offer and meets on April 9.
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Schools drop science over cuts - study [IrishTimes]
- Published: 02 April 2010
MORE THAN 14 per cent of second-level schools have dropped science subjects because of budget cutbacks, according to a survey. The survey also found that 10 per cent of schools have been forced to drop physics from the choice of subjects available to students.
The research also found that higher and ordinary science classes have been combined in 70 per cent of the schools surveyed.
The survey among more than 300 Junior Cert science teachers was conducted by Millward Browne Lansdowne on behalf of the Association of Secondary Teachers of Ireland (ASTI).
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ASTI set to reject public sector reform [IrishTimes]
- Published: 02 April 2010
THE MAIN second-level teacher union is set to reject the public service reform deal at its annual conference next week.
Opposition to the deal was voiced at last night’s meeting of the standing committee of the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland (ASTI).
ASTI’s larger 180-member central executive is likely to oppose the deal when it meets next Friday at the the conclusion of the ASTI conference in Galway. Union sources believe the executive will gain the two-thirds majority it needs to reject the deal. ASTI’s 18,000 members are set to ballot on the deal later this month.
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