The Irish Times: A recent poll carried out by the Teachers’ Union of Ireland of principals and deputy principals in 120 second-level schools indicates that half of those schools are struggling with unfilled teacher vacancies in key subjects such as Irish, maths and science.

The survey found that almost all schools experienced difficulties in recruiting teachers in the past six months. Almost half said they still had unfilled teaching vacancies. Subject areas encountering the most severe recruitment and retention difficulties were Irish, home economics, French, maths, Spanish, physics, construction studies/woodwork, biology and chemistry. Read article