Joe McHugh went out to the Middle East and spoke to Irish teachers there once. That counts right?
As far as I know, there’s none. I cane back from 10 years abroad in Dubai and got two interviews and no job offers. I ended up taking a job teaching English to adults in Dublin. Fucking teacher shortage my ass.
Should probably try and retain the ones they have for a start. I know at least two personally that are sniffing around at tech companies because the pay is so much better.
I don’t know what pay discrimination is.
Pat McKenna is a twat
I’m a qualified teacher from the North. We are oversubscribed at the moment. I would love to teach over the birder but unfortunately don’t speak Irish.
Wasn’t that what the cola bottle Tayto were all about?
There’s nothing done at all to encourage people to emigrate back in fact I felt as though it was being actively made difficult. Ignoring rentals – Bank accounts very tough to open from overseas ahead of arriving, drivers license taken/disappears for 2-3 months while they issue a new one (if they even recognize your overseas one). Finding a gp with space is tough. Childcare spots are reserved for people that registered for them as soon as they found out they were pregnant 😅. Teacher roles are in tiny rural areas where no accommodation exists / and or services. Jaysus if they even offered to cover a flight it’d be something 😅
Its probably sonething token and pathetic.
They could get rid of the teaching council’s ridiculous non-recognition of qualifications obtained abroad.
My sister has been a qualified teacher for 5 years and just finished a Masters related to teaching STEM. The only roles she could get were temporary covering maternity leave. Any permanent roles that come up she has missed out on. I’m 100% cynical but she always seem to lose out to a more qualified relative of someone at the school with less experience. 🤷♂️.
(Might be just a shite teacher too, but from my school days experience that was a core competency for some subjects )
Pay restoration. It’s very simple. When you’re doing the same job as someone else but they’re getting paid substantially more, it can lead to you thinking about changing professions.
Incentives what a joke. Just up the pay to a competitive rate against teaching English abroad and that’s done.
Funny how none of these articles even consider the pay as one of the main reasons for “labour shortages”
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Joe McHugh went out to the Middle East and spoke to Irish teachers there once. That counts right?
As far as I know, there’s none. I cane back from 10 years abroad in Dubai and got two interviews and no job offers. I ended up taking a job teaching English to adults in Dublin. Fucking teacher shortage my ass.
Should probably try and retain the ones they have for a start. I know at least two personally that are sniffing around at tech companies because the pay is so much better.
I don’t know what pay discrimination is.
Pat McKenna is a twat
I’m a qualified teacher from the North. We are oversubscribed at the moment. I would love to teach over the birder but unfortunately don’t speak Irish.
Wasn’t that what the cola bottle Tayto were all about?
There’s nothing done at all to encourage people to emigrate back in fact I felt as though it was being actively made difficult. Ignoring rentals – Bank accounts very tough to open from overseas ahead of arriving, drivers license taken/disappears for 2-3 months while they issue a new one (if they even recognize your overseas one). Finding a gp with space is tough. Childcare spots are reserved for people that registered for them as soon as they found out they were pregnant 😅. Teacher roles are in tiny rural areas where no accommodation exists / and or services. Jaysus if they even offered to cover a flight it’d be something 😅
Its probably sonething token and pathetic.
They could get rid of the teaching council’s ridiculous non-recognition of qualifications obtained abroad.
My sister has been a qualified teacher for 5 years and just finished a Masters related to teaching STEM. The only roles she could get were temporary covering maternity leave. Any permanent roles that come up she has missed out on. I’m 100% cynical but she always seem to lose out to a more qualified relative of someone at the school with less experience. 🤷♂️.
(Might be just a shite teacher too, but from my school days experience that was a core competency for some subjects )
Pay restoration. It’s very simple. When you’re doing the same job as someone else but they’re getting paid substantially more, it can lead to you thinking about changing professions.
Incentives what a joke. Just up the pay to a competitive rate against teaching English abroad and that’s done.
Funny how none of these articles even consider the pay as one of the main reasons for “labour shortages”