There’s a concern over 330 vacant teaching jobs at secondary schools.
The Teachers’ Union of Ireland is hitting out at the Department of Education for failing to tackle the teacher shortage crisis.
It says schools are now experiencing significant difficulty employing educators across the full breadth of subjects.
TUI President David Waters says there are too many empty posts the Government has failed to fill; “We’ve warned the Government repeatedly that unless urgent action is taken it is going to reach catastrophic levels, there’s hundreds of empty vacancies at the moment we’d have to see how that progresses but I mean this isn’t something that the Government have been caught on the hope with, we have repeatedly over the last ten years have been telling them about this and yet they don’t seem to want to act”.
