Education Correspondent
The Minister for Education has invited ASTI trade union leadership to meet her to discuss the union s withdrawal from talks aimed at finding a way of assessing this year s Leaving Certificate students.
The ASTI pulled out of the talks in protest at what it said was the prioritisation of a calculated grade type assessment over the sitting of exams.
The secondary teachers’ union said it was withdrawing pending a guarantee that negotiations will focus on what it said are the minister’s stated objectives, of planning for examinations and scoping out a corresponding measure.
The union dismissed as unacceptable what it said is a plan that would effectively see students preparing for two versions of a Leaving Certificate, with Calculated Grades being the dominant option, and Leaving Cert exams filling in assessment gaps.
Teachers to seek assurances on safety of schools before any return to classrooms
A teachers’ union wants safety measures in schools to be reviewed in the context of the new, more transmissible strains. By Lauren Boland Sunday 24 Jan 2021, 3:58 PM Jan 24th 2021, 3:58 PM 53,591 Views 220 Comments
Image: Sasko Lazarov/Rollingnews.ie
Image: Sasko Lazarov/Rollingnews.ie
TEACHERS WANT CLEAR “assurances” on how schools will be kept safe before they would feel comfortable returning, according to a teachers’ union.
Before schools reopen, teachers would be looking for safety measures preventing the spread of Covid-19 to be implemented that account for the newer, more transmissible strains.