WE all have a reason to be grateful for nurses and today is all about a celebration in their honour. It’s International Nurses Day, which gives us here at Times Past HQ an excuse to talk about some of the great women who have graced Glasgow hospitals over the centuries. Hard to imagine, especially in this year of all years, that nursing as a career did not command much respect until the middle of the 1800s. As Florence Nightingale put it, nursing was left for “those who were too old, too weak, too drunken, too dirty, too stupid or too bad to do anything else.”
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The National Parents Council ask parents to supervise Leaving and Junior Certificate exams if members of the ASTI refuse to do so.
Leaving and Junior Certificate oral examinations are just weeks away, but at present there is no guarantee that they will go ahead.
An ongoing pay dispute between the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland (ASTI) and the Department of Education is currently before the Labour Court. A thirty per cent pay rise is being sought by the teachers union, which has threatened to withdraw exam services if an acceptable recommendation from the Labour Court cannot be found.
The National Parents Council Post Primary (NPCCP) have called on parents to offer to supervise the Junior and Leaving Certificates this summer. President of the NPCCP Marie Danaswamy tells RTÉ News, the exams need to go ahead regardless,
The Gaeilgeoir is currently fronting a new, two-hour bilingual show on 2fm called
StaidAir
which is broadcast on weekdays at 8pm in a bid to support those students facing into their Irish orals and trying to prepare at home.
“I can’t even imagine how hard it must be for them. It’s just the unknown. When you’re doing the Leaving Cert, you know it’s coming, you know there’s these exams and that’s daunting enough as it is. But just not to know what’s happening is so hard while you’re also trying to prepare. It’s too much, it really is,” she told the
RTÉ s Bláthnaid Treacy said she feels huge sympathy for students sitting their Junior and Leaving Certificates amid the uncertainty created by the pandemic.