# teachers - Sunday 19 May, 2013
National Volunteering Week ends today. Here Donnacha Maguire, who is in Ethiopia, tells us about some of the work being done by Irish volunteers in the country.
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# teachers - Saturday 18 May, 2013
The General Secretary of the INTO said today that two issues of note were higher pay and the supervision allowance.
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# teachers - Friday 17 May, 2013
Here are the things we learned, loved and shared today.
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# teachers - Saturday 11 May, 2013
The camp is accepting applicants from primary, secondary and P.E teachers across the country.
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# teachers - Tuesday 7 May, 2013
TV shows like ‘The Tudors’ and ‘Rome’ show that history is more popular than ever – yet, under proposed changes to the Junior Certificate, history could become an optional subject or short course. It makes no sense, writes teacher Christian O’Connor.
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# teachers - Tuesday 23 April, 2013
Ruairà Quinn said it is “far too early” to say if legislation will be brought to legislate for pay cuts following the rejection of Croke Park II.
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# teachers - Monday 22 April, 2013
We pay tribute to the men and women that shape young minds and have shaped great sporting moments.
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# teachers - Saturday 20 April, 2013
We have been treating nurses and gardai as equal in importance to receptionists and quango directors, they are not equal in importance, writes Aaron McKenna.
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# teachers - Friday 19 April, 2013
The executives of the ASTI, the TUI and the INTO have decided to begin balloting members next month.
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# teachers - Monday 15 April, 2013
Cuts to teachers’ salaries and increased taxation have left some of my colleagues just making ends meet, writes Carmel Hume.
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# teachers - Thursday 11 April, 2013
Minister Brendan Howlin ha said that it is “dishonest” to say that there are no consequences arising from a ‘no’ vote.
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# teachers - Sunday 7 April, 2013
The fundamental role the educational system plays today is determining a young person’s future life choices, so if there is to be equal opportunity, then we need to tackle equal access for all, writes Fr Peter McVerry.
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# teachers - Saturday 6 April, 2013
# teachers - Friday 5 April, 2013
Around 42,000 serving teachers will have to be vetted retrospectively under new legislation, which one teachers’ union says will create long delays.
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# teachers - Thursday 4 April, 2013
The Teachers’ Union of Ireland is balloting over a strike if its members, who have rejected the deal, are bound by it anyway.
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Good morning! Here’s what you should know as you kick off your Thursday. (It’s a four-day week, hang in there.)
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# teachers - Tuesday 2 April, 2013
The Teachers’ Union of Ireland also proposed the withdrawal of goodwill tasks like supervision duties.
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Good morning! Here’s what you need to know as you get back into the swing of things after the long weekend.
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# teachers - Monday 1 April, 2013
Things we learned, loved and shared today…
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INTO President spoke of “increasing anger” over education cuts.
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# teachers - Wednesday 27 March, 2013
The reality is that inspections only offer a momentary window into a teacher’s classroom as an educator. I would challenge the very notion that increasing inspections and appraisals is necessary to help develop better education standards, writes Aodhán Ó RÃordáin.
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# teachers - Sunday 24 March, 2013
Protecting the staff of religious-run medical and educational institutions who are members of the LGBT community or those who are single parents should be a priority, especially if they receive state funding, says Ivana Bacik.
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# teachers - Saturday 16 March, 2013
# teachers - Wednesday 13 March, 2013
Croke Park 2 is a serious reversal of rights won by trade unions over decades. If rejected, it will be the union leaders that will come under question, writes Kieran Allen.
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# teachers - Tuesday 12 March, 2013
Oh captain my captain.
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# teachers - Monday 11 March, 2013
The training would mean that teachers could better deal with work colleagues who are experiencing mental health difficulties.
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The figures in the current INTO survey were compared to similar research undertaken 10 years ago.
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# teachers - Friday 8 March, 2013
Following what you told us about your bullying experiences, we asked the experts for advice. Here’s what they said.
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# teachers - Thursday 7 March, 2013
The ASTI says public sector workers have already contributed enough, and savings should be made through the tax system.
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# teachers - Tuesday 5 March, 2013
The teachers’ union wants the State to end its financial support for private schools.
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# teachers - Saturday 2 March, 2013
Here are all the things we learned, loved and shared today.
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The executive of INTO, which has 32,000 members in the Republic, will ballot its members without a formal recommendation.
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# teachers - Wednesday 27 February, 2013
The union is to put the proposals to a ballot by its members.
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# teachers - Sunday 27 January, 2013
The Trócaire box, the nature table, Zacchaeus… they’re all here.
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# teachers - Tuesday 22 January, 2013
5 stories, 5 minutes, 5 o’clock.
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In other news, we think we want to become teachers and move to France.
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# teachers - Sunday 16 December, 2012
Bullying is in the spotlight again after a series of tragedies. Eimhear Lynch, 16, describes how she and her friends took action.
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# teachers - Tuesday 4 December, 2012
The Joint Managerial Body has provided advice to schools and teachers about Twitter, Facebook and other social media.
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# teachers - Saturday 27 October, 2012
# teachers - Wednesday 24 October, 2012
Here are the things we loved, learned and shared today.
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