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The Irish National Teachers' Organisation (INTO) (Irish: Cumann Múinteoirí Éireann), founded in 1868, is the oldest and largest teachers' trade union in Ireland. It represents teachers at primary level in the Republic of Ireland, and at primary and post-primary level in Northern Ireland. The head office is at Parnell Square, Dublin, and ...
The Association of Secondary Teachers, Ireland (ASTI) is a trade union for secondary school teachers in Ireland. [3] It is a member of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions . The union represents 18,500 teachers in schools attended by 80% of all second-level students.
The union was founded in 1930 as the Vocational Educational Officers' Organisation, and it joined the Irish Trades Union Congress the following year. In 1955, it renamed itself as the Vocational Teachers' Association , and then in 1973 it became the "Teachers' Union of Ireland".
Education in the Republic of Ireland is a primary, secondary and higher (often known as "third-level" or tertiary) education.In recent years, further education has grown immensely, with 51% of working age adults having completed higher education by 2020. [1]
National schools, established by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland government, post the Stanley Letter of 1831, and were intended to be multi-denominational. [2] [6] The schools were controlled by a state body, the National Board of Education, with a six-member board consisting of two Roman Catholics, two Church of Ireland, and two Presbyterians.
In 1926, the Congregation became involved in the Irish National School system, and consequentially the college's focus on primary education increased. In 1929, the Department of Education recognised the college as a teacher training college and students were awarded a National Teachers' Diploma (NT) on completion of their course.
He was born and brought up in Dingle, County Kerry, O'Toole was a teacher for ten years and then a school principal in County Dublin. From 1990 to 2001, he was appointed General Secretary of the Irish National Teachers' Organisation (INTO), and from 2001 to 2003, he was President of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU).
Sheila Nunan is a former president of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and former General Secretary of the Irish National Teachers' Organisation. [1] [2] She has been a member of the executive of the INTO since 1995 and was INTO President from 2005 to 2006, and INTO General Secretary from 2010 until 2019. Sheila Nunan was the first woman to ...