With a teacher union calling for stronger laws around online harassment, Catherine Conlon says the cultural norm of children being constantly online has to be tackled
Taoiseach-elect Simon Harris has been warned by a leading teachers’ union that he will now be expected to deliver in power on the firm promises he made to the education sector while Minister for Higher Education.
Over half the newly recruited teachers surveyed in a major study said they would now consider leaving Ireland to work overseas with disillusionment, savings and high accommodation costs cited as the main reasons for quitting Irish classrooms.