Teachers, You will be told that your holidays are too long; teach anyway. You will be told that you must raise standards even though you always aim to get the best out of your kids; teach anyway. You will not be given tax-breaks, bonuses, expensed-cars or luxury Christmas gifts; teach […]
Monthly Archives: December 2016

So I was reading this Irish Times the other day when I came across this nugget from Carl O’Brien which helps illustrate my argument below. Carl writes, “The proposal states that students could undertake an assessment task – worth 10 per cent of marks – over the coming months in […]
The ASTI Need To Get This One Thing Right For ...

Negotiations In any dispute between two or more parties, where they decide to engage in negotiations, there is always a portion of blame on both sides. If one side was blameless, if they had ‘clean hands’, there would be a court case, not negotiations. So in negotiations, both sides have […]