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This change meant that the schools must employ fewer teachers per child, and the schools would not receive government funding for non-teaching staff, as the free Roman Catholic schools do. [12] Opposition to these cuts was being mounted by the Church of Ireland, the Methodist Church and the Presbyterian Church as well as the schools and parents.
On 7 August, updated guidelines was published by the Department of Education, which stated that all teachers in both primary and secondary schools and students in secondary school would be required to wear face coverings when a physical distance of two metres could not be maintained. [17]
The Association of Secondary Teachers, Ireland (ASTI) is a trade union for secondary school teachers in Ireland. [3] It is a member of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions . The union represents 18,500 teachers in schools attended by 80% of all second-level students.
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O'Donoghue, Thomas A. "The Roman Catholic ethos of Irish secondary schools, 1924-62, and its implications for teaching and school organisation" Journal of Educational Administration and History, 22#2 (1990), pp 27–37. Raftery, Deirdre, and Susan M. Parkes, eds. Female Education in Ireland, 1700–1900: Minerva or Madonna (Irish Academic Press ...
This faced controversy: in particular, a step involving "school profiling" became a topic of debate in government. [ 42 ] [ 43 ] [ 44 ] Concerns about parental efforts to influence grades given by teachers, or fears that they would sue teachers for giving bad grades, were also raised. [ 45 ]
The Free Schoolbooks initiative to all transition and senior cycle pupils, and the Hot School Meals programme will be extended to all primary schools, including a pilot-programme for school holidays.
The grinds industry in Ireland, particularly at secondary school level, acts as a supplement to other forms of schooling and is described in some sources as "shadow education". [1] [2] [3] In 2012, the Revenue Commissioners launched an investigation into a perceived failure of some teachers to declare extra income from giving grinds for tax ...