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FactCheck

FactCheck: Are there really more teachers in Ireland than ever before?

30 Apr

9.3k

School Strikes

Teachers will vote on industrial action if concerns over Leaving Cert reforms aren't addressed

23 Apr

12.9k

ASTI

Teaching union calls for 'pause' in plans for Synge Street CBS to become gaelcholáiste

20 Mar

6.4k

Senior Cycle changes

Teachers to protest outside schools to seek delay in implementing Leaving Cert reforms

Updated 19 Nov 2024

13.5k

The Morning Lead

Norma Foley in the firing line: Teachers question why they earn less after teaching abroad

It was an issue that drove much discussion at the ASTI’s opening day of its annual congress in Wexford.

Eoghan Dalton

3 Apr 2024

31.6k

ASTI votes to resist Leaving Cert reform amid 'widespread concern' over impact of AI

2 Apr 2024

14.8k

The Morning Lead

Schools are removing outer doors on bathrooms to crack down on students vaping

21 Oct 2023

31.8k

Teachers

TUI Head: Greater flexibility needed to tackle staffing crisis in schools

5 Sep 2023

11.3k

teaching shortage

ASTI head: 'Quite frankly, they're putting people in classrooms who aren't teachers'

15 Aug 2023

42.7k

RIP

Tributes paid to ASTI president Miriam Duggan who has died following a short illness

2 Jun 2023

29.3k

The Morning Lead

Schools in 'outdated buildings' fear a winter of energy rationing and cold classes

2 Nov 2022

12.8k

co-ordinated campaign

Teacher unions plan ballots for industrial action over stalled pay talks

10 Aug 2022

19.8k

TEACHERS UNION

INTO says 'scourge of supersized classes' should end, as teachers' unions to ask for pay increases

Updated 19 Apr 2022

26.4k

Schools

Schools under 'incredible pressure' due to staff shortages amid current Covid-19 wave

25 Mar 2022

51.8k

State Exams

Leaving Cert 2022: Teaching unions hit out at 'unhelpful' speculation about hybrid model

10 Jan 2022

18.9k

re-opening

'Enormous unease' about schools reopening amid concerns about teacher substitutes, unions say

Updated 5 Jan 2022

60.1k

102

Back To School

Schools set to re-open on Thursday as safety measures deemed 'effective and appropriate'

Updated 4 Jan 2022

199k

195

Schools

ASTI warns return of schools is ‘unacceptable risk’ without new measures

3 Jan 2022

62.6k

127

substitute teachers

Emergency measures to tackle teacher shortages 'perpetuating unequal pay', say teaching unions

29 Nov 2021

22.1k

Covid-19

'I can't sleep at night': Pregnant teachers fear going back to school before they're vaccinated

13 Aug 2021

34.4k

Teachers

Teacher unions to table joint motion over vaccine priority schedule

Updated 7 Apr 2021

29.9k

138

vaccine rollout

'It's not a value judgement on any profession' - Education Minister defends change to vaccine prioritisation

Updated 6 Apr 2021

77.5k

188

Teachers

ASTI says vaccine meeting with public health experts and minister was 'unsatisfactory'

2 Apr 2021

34.4k

122

Education

Norma Foley indicates she wants re-opening of schools from March as talks continue

16 Feb 2021

31.3k

2021

Leaving Cert talks to continue this evening after a day of 'intense' negotiations

Updated 15 Feb 2021

26.8k

Education

Minister welcomes move by ASTI to rejoin talks on Leaving Cert

Updated 13 Feb 2021

21.7k

Leaving Cert

ASTI has 'constructive engagement' with Department over Leaving Cert impasse

Updated 12 Feb 2021

47.0k

161

State Exams

Explainer: What's happening with the Leaving Cert?

12 Feb 2021

12.5k

Education

Minister Foley 'taken aback' after ASTI pulls out of Leaving Cert planning talks

Updated 11 Feb 2021

55.0k

181

spread

Teachers to seek 'assurances' on safety of schools before any return to classrooms

24 Jan 2021

53.8k

220

ASTI urges teachers to reject deal over continued 'unequal pay' for new entrants

9 Jan 2021

23.7k

Covid-19

ASTI members insist strike action would be 'last resort' but that government needs to listen to them

30 Oct 2020

19.9k

ASTI

Taoiseach 'doesn't detect' that teachers want to 'go down the route' of industrial action

29 Oct 2020

15.6k

teaching union

ASTI members vote to take industrial action unless government addresses Covid-19 safety concerns

28 Oct 2020

41.7k

103

Teachers

Teaching unions query whether schools should remain open if Ireland moves to Level 5

5 Oct 2020

63.9k

184

ASTI

Teachers union to ballot for industrial action over Covid-19 safety concerns

19 Sep 2020

99.7k

263

new guidelines

Social distancing rules mean it's inevitable students won't be back in school full-time - ASTI

Updated 2 Jul 2020

50.1k

116

Indemnity

ASTI changes tack and is now advising its members to comply with the Leaving Cert calculated grades system

Updated 22 May 2020

22.5k

Calculated Grades

'Extremely worrying': ASTI to discuss legal protection over Leaving Cert grading with government

22 May 2020

17.7k

Leaving Cert

'Unacceptable' and 'inappropriate' that teachers would be lobbied by parents and students

Updated 10 May 2020

62.2k

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