ASTI - Ireland's main second level teachers union
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Emigration is the new permanency for young teachers, ASTI conference hears
28 April 2011
Newly graduated teachers are facing the fact that their best chance of getting a teaching job is to emigrate, a student teacher told the ASTI’s annual conference today. Aoife Ní Mháille, a student teacher from Trinity College...
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ASTI Annual Conference: Education system depends on teachers
27 April 2011
Education is a frontline service the quality of which depends on teachers being there for students, ASTI General Secretary Pat King said today.
Speaking at the ASTI Annual Conference in Cork, Mr King said our education...
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ASTI Annual Conference to defend new teachers
25 April 2011
Defending new teachers against unprecedented attacks on their terms and conditions of employment is the key theme for the ASTI Annual Conference which begins tomorrow in Cork.
ASTI General Secretary Pat King said that from...
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Survey shows new teachers committed to improving young people’s lives, but pessimistic about teaching as career
20 April 2011
Despite a desire to work with young people, make a difference and teach a subject they love, the majority of trainee second-level teachers graduating this summer are pessimistic about their career and feel singled out by the...
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New teachers unfairly targeted with pay cuts, changes in conditions, says ASTI leader
15 April 2011
New entrants to teaching have been targeted with a pay cut of 14% instead of the 10% pay cut for new public servants announced in the government Four Year Plan.
ASTI General Secretary Pat King has written to the Department of...
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