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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".
A New History of Ireland: Vol. VII Ireland, 1921-84 (1976) pp 711–56 online; Akenson, Donald H. The Irish Education Experiment: The National System of Education in the Nineteenth Century (1981; 2nd ed 2014) Akenson, Donald H. A Mirror to Kathleen's Face: Education in Independent Ireland, 1922–60 (1975) Connell, Paul.
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.
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.
Mount Temple Comprehensive School is a secondary school in Clontarf, Dublin, Ireland.The school operates under the patronage of the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin, and has, as a primary objective, the provision of state-funded second-level education to the Protestant population of northern Dublin, while accepting pupils of all religions and none.
The Junior Cycle (Irish: An tSraith Shóisearach) is the first stage of the education programme for post-primary education within the Republic of Ireland.It is overseen by the Department of Education and the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA), and its terminal examination, the Junior Certificate, by the State Examinations Commission.