The Government has failed to “make a dent” in the teacher recruitment and retention crisis as “hundreds” of posts remain unfilled shortly before schools reopen after summer, the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) said.
In recent years, the union said hundreds of posts advertised online have consistently remained unfilled at this time of year despite schools working “relentlessly” to fill them.
An ASTI survey of secondary school leaders published on Thursday revealed 67 per cent of respondents said they had unfilled vacancies, due to recruitment difficulties, halfway through the last school year.
ASTI President Padraig Curley spoke to us this morning on The Agenda about this.