2000 new public sector jobs

Paddy Samurai

Anyone interested in been a teacher?

MORE than 1,000 new teaching jobs will be created by September -- with a further 1,000 expected next year.
The jobs are being given the green light because of a huge surge in the number of full-time students, which now tops one million for the first time in the history of the State. They are in addition to the hundreds of posts that have to be filled annually due to retirements.

Personally I think this is a good idea.

http://www.independent.ie/education/latest-news/2000-new-teaching-jobs-as-pupil-numbers-soar-2177959.html

Schism

Anything to do with with more jobs being created at this time is a good idea.

Duggy747

Both my sisters are secondary school teachers so this is only good news for them instead of the other way round. Took them a looooong time to secure a permanent place.

Bazzy

And as a perk they should give them a mortgage and discounted rate on some of the NAMA properties currently vacant.

Good steady job and potential to pay mortgage get some of the bad debt off NAMA's Books

WIN - WIN

Banned Account

They still get paid too much and work too little. I am all for educating our children but would someone at least say hello to the big ol' elephant in the corner of the room.

orourkeda

Are they all full time appointments?

cian1500ww

Good to see they're working on that 3 billion euro shortfall...

Sea Sharp

That's good to hear. Apparently maths and science teachers are scarce as-well.

The_Minister

Of the 1,080 new posts coming on stream this September, 600 will be in primary and 330 in second-level. A further 150 have yet to be designated.

They still don't know where 150 of the jobs will be?

I wonder what will be cut to pay for these jobs.

Dionysus

A paltry 330 jobs to the 737 secondary schools in the state. And who's to tell that this is not some sort of sweetner for the unions to get them to accept the Croke Park deal.

Primary school teachers are in a much better position than secondary school teachers. After today they are incomparably better. It is a bit misleading for the media to talk about "teachers" when there is such a difference now between the employment prospects of a primary school teacher and the employment prospects of a secondary school teacher.


Permanent jobs in new contracts for teachers are now very, very rare. What is more usual is an annual contract or just weekly hours. So much for the supposed "security" of a teaching job.

Meanwhile, despite the huge numbers of unemployed qualified secondary school teachers, hundreds if not thousands of teachers hold permanent jobs in subjects they are not qualified to teach. Go figure.

meditraitor

I hope they will be paid reasonable wages and not the ridiculous amount current teachers are leaching from the goverment coffers.

Dionysus

meditraitor wrote: »

I hope they will be paid reasonable wages and not the ridiculous amount current teachers are leaching from the goverment coffers.

Well, there's another thing. It costs €49 per hour to employ a fully qualified teacher, and €22 per hour for an unqualified teacher. Guess which type is cleaning up (relatively speaking) on the supervision and substitution work nowadays? Hint: it isn't the qualified teacher.

The entire thing is a sham. If parents only knew that schools across the state are making this choice almost every day in deciding the quality of teachers that their children are supposed to be taught by ....

Wagon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4slqDJaU6VU