Tags : Seamus Lahart

Future Leaving Cert exams may be influenced by ‘calculated grades’

02 Jun, 2020
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Joe McHugh, leaving cert, Seamus Lahart, TUI
Teaching

Gifts for teachers to be treated as ‘serious attempt’ to undermine Leaving Cert grades

TUI will work with State Examinations Commission to help vulnerable Leaving Cert students

14 Apr, 2020
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coronavirus, leaving cert, Seamus Lahart, SEC, TUI
Teaching

Leaving Cert proposal not feasible, union claims

13 Apr, 2020
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ASTI, coronavirus, DES, leaving cert, Seamus Lahart, TUI
Teaching

Thousands of teachers to strike on February 4th

The problems with feeder school lists

Wealthy students and high-points courses

Ireland bottom of class when it comes to class sizes and funding: OECD report

CAO points race is distorting the true meaning of education

‘Review junior cycle before Leaving Cert is changed’

25 Apr, 2019
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ASTI, Joe McHugh, junior cycle, leaving cert, NCCA, Seamus Lahart, TUI
Governance and administration, Teaching

Increase in student numbers will put strain on third level institutions, union warns

It should be possible to address pay disparity for teachers, TUI says

Teachers’ union votes to accept pay deal for new entrants

TUI to ballot members on Government pay deal proposals

International report endorses work of teachers and lecturers

TUI expresses serious concern at slow pace of current engagement on pay inequality

New TUI President: Injustice of pay inequality must end now

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