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teachers’ union of ireland / AONTAS MúiNTeOirí éireANN
Vo l.3 8 / no.9
“TUI – a union
M ay 2 0 1 6
on the move”
Full Annual Congress review inside
#tui16
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contents:
p. 3 A word from The president
p.4 Congress 2016 review
p.8 Tui ‘ireland 1916’ art
competition
p.10 Academic gender equality
p.12 School discipline survey
ANNuAl CONgreSS 2016
p.16 New executive Committee
members
p.18 industrial action in relation to
mergers
p.19 Congress 2016 resolutions –
full report
p.32 rMA application form
p.33 rMA News
p.34 Tui in the media
p.36 Crossword SiNCere ThANkS TO CONgreSS OrgANiSiNg COMMiTTee 2016 fOr A jOb very
well dONe. frOM lefT TO righT: NAdiA jOhNSTON, eleANOr reddy (ChAir),
ANN MulCAhy, STepheN duNNe, kATe fAhey, jACquie Murphy ANd MAurA
COTTrell.
ediTOriAl prOduCTiON
Annette dolan bernie ruane Tui News is published by the
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A Word from
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The President
Tui preSideNT, gerry quiNN
dear Colleagues, and a national directive on tirelessly for several months to ensure
non-cooperation with merger-related that the event ran smoothly and
while this is the final ‘regular’ edition of activities has been in place since efficiently in every way.
Tui News for the current academic April 4th.
year, you will also receive an important Maurice holly and tom hunt –
bulletin on our upcoming national ballot engagement with department – our appreciation
shortly. however, given that the ballot to follow it is with great sadness that i draw
subsequent edition will focus solely on The haddington road Agreement attention to the passing of two former
those critical issues, i would like to take expires at the end of june. At the time Tui presidents. Maurice holly served as
this opportunity to wish you the very of writing, Tui is still engaged in president of the union from 1969-1971
best over the summer break. negotiations with the department. and later as general Secretary, while
ballots and full information will follow Tom hunt served as president of the
Progress on key issues very shortly. keep an eye on the Tui union between 1981-1983. A tribute to
Once again, in addition to our website and on any further Maurice appears in this Tui News and a
increasingly demanding jobs as teachers, correspondence. tribute to Tom will appear in a later
lecturers and other educators, we have edition. deepest sympathies are
had an eventful year as trade unionists annual congress 2016 extended to their families, friends and
defending both our careers and the Annual Congress has taken place since colleagues. we also remember their
public education service. Considerable the last edition. The event was sterling work on behalf of the union and
progress was made on a range of issues. extremely successful in allowing us to its members.
assess and reflect upon what has been
Our key objectives and central demands an intensely busy period for the union thank you
were achieved in the successful junior and its members and in setting out finally, while an eventful period is
Cycle campaign. we also established a priorities for the coming months. A full certain before my term of office ceases
highly significant precedent on how report of decisions taken is carried in at the end of june, this will be my last
education reform should be delivered. this edition. Once again, almost 500 editorial that is not confined to a
Third level members voted strongly for delegates from across the sectors in particular issue. i would like to take this
industrial action against the threats which Tui represents members opportunity to thank you, the members,
contained in the Technological sacrificed their spare time to participate. for your support and assistance over my
universities (Tu) bill. The bill Sincere gratitude is extended to all. term of office to date. i wish you all the
proceeded to report Stage in the last however, there is much more to very best.
dáil. due to time constraints which Congress than three days of debate and
were exploited by the union’s extensive it would be remiss of me not to pay
lobbying and the 123 amendments particular tribute to all members of
tabled, report State was not concluded. both the Organising and Standing
Our lobbying campaign continues apace, Orders Committees who worked
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conGress 2016 – General secretarY’s address
‘The moral imperative for the TUI is to secure
parity of payment, to have all teachers paid on the
same basis, to end the odious discrimination
against those who have recently entered the
profession.’
in a wide ranging address to Annual secure for the sector the respect that it directive has issued that prohibits co-
Congress 2016, Tui’s general Secretary has been long denied. All there – staff operation with merger activities.
john Macgabhann tackled a number of and students have, i think, been victims
issues relating to education and of an unspoken amalgam of elitism and further/adult education
industrial relations including the fatalism in official circles that thinks of The integration of former fÁS
campaign for pay equalisation, the what youthreach does as a lost cause, personnel into the eTbs required a
funding crisis in institutes of Technology mere displacement activity and certainly programme management team and had
and the lansdowne road Agreement. as not being in the realm of education. significant time and attention devoted to
They are wrong. it by the deS, SOlAS and the eTbs. This
The union has been engaged ‘in a was right and proper. what we now
number of significant and institute of technology funding need is a programme to integrate eTb
complementary campaigns’, he said. ‘Our The heA recently attempted to suggest staff into the eTbs – in particular i refer
strategy has been consistent and simple. that quality has not yet suffered, implying to the forgotten, the beached, those
it is based upon doing business robustly somehow that these cuts are sustainable without categorisation, proper pay or
and honourably. The Tui will talk, will - even beneficial - not needing to be conditions in the further and Adult
seek fair and sustainable resolution of reversed. if the heA believes this, it is education sectors who, almost by
issues.’ away with the pixies. The members of definition, serve the most marginalised in
this union know that the service they the most inhospitable conditions.
A selection of some key issues can offer students is suffering, that the government would do well to note that
addressed during the address is set out experience of students is diminished and in terms of international comparative
below. that a critical national resource is being studies, ireland has more cause to be
shamefully depleted. They know that concerned about the results of piAAC
Junior cycle current workloads are oppressive and that of piSA.
in relation to junior Cycle we sought intolerable. The incoming government
negotiations, took action to get them must, as a priority, address this crisis. new entrants
and then negotiated effectively. we lest there is anybody who has not yet
secured our key objectives - the technological universities Bill heard or understood the core issue, the
retention of state certification, external An incoming government will also need moral imperative for the Tui, let me
SeC assessment for state certification to amend the Technological universities remind them. it is to secure parity of
purposes and appropriate resourcing. bill, some parts of which are payment, to have all teachers paid on the
unacceptable. This battle is still being same basis – at the pre-2011 level of
An appreciable collateral benefit of the fought and the campaign will continue. payment, to end the odious
professional time is that it represents a Our focus has to be the houses of the discrimination against teachers who have
de facto improvement in the pTr or, put Oireachtas. we have a clear mandate entered the profession since 2012. This
another way, an increase in the teacher and our requirements are entirely imperative informs all our actions. it is
allocation nationally of some 800 whole reasonable. it is interesting to note that being pursued at the talks we are
time equivalents. This will assist in the heA and deS insist that there are currently involved in with the
increasing the hours of part-time no forced mergers and that it is for the department. we have consistently raised
teachers. institutes to enlist if they choose to do the issue with our sister teacher unions
so. The import of this is that we also and with the pSC. we raised it at the
Youthreach have to intensify our efforts to influence talks that led to the lansdowne road
we have a mandate from members that local management. in this respect, a Agreement (lrA) – where it was
we will use appropriately in order to
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ballot for industrial action will be
required if the union is to have a
mandate to issues directives to cover
the post-hrA situation.
The alternative to the current strategy
of the union was to do nothing and
simply to await expiry of the hrA.
however, that seemed to the executive -
and to members if one judges such
matters by participation in ballots – not
to be what the union should do. Our
members have identified serious issues
that demand action.
The Tui has been pro-active, has
explored and, where possible, exploited
the possibilities of the prevailing political
geNerAl SeCreTAry jOhN MACgAbhANN iS iNTerviewed by rTe priOr TO
hiS AddreSS environment. we have taken risks, but
calculated ones. if they bear fruit so
much the better but we believe that, in
ignored. To a very large extent the addressing key issues
any event, it is important to seek to
failure of the lrA to address this matter As you know, we are currently engaged
make progress, to shape events and not
was the reason that members of the Tui in discussions with the department on
to have them always shape us.
did not accept that agreement. This the range of issues that were not
discrimination is a direct, knowing, addressed in the lrA and that were the from the perspective of members, we
cynical assault on the teaching subject of ballots in december and are attempting to provide a real choice
profession – on the garda, on prison january and a strike by members at by making real progress. One way or the
officers and on the fire service as well - Third level in february. The ballots were other, the decision will be in your hands.
by the dper. it applied an additional and held with a view to securing meaningful
oppressive pay cut to these groups and engagement about issues such as higher education levy
to these alone. Of all, teachers were underfunding, understaffing, excessive we know that our low headline rate of
worst affected because, due to workload, casualisation and income corporation tax of 12.5% is not the
demographics, there are more of them poverty and appropriate terms of effective rate. we know that third level
and the value of their allowances was employment. That initial objective - education is critically underfunded.
significant. we estimate the raw loss meaningful engagement - was secured Consider who benefits hugely from that
over a 40 year career to be of the order and, as a result, the strike scheduled for education service. Corporations. we are
of €300k. 24th february did not proceed. repeatedly told that fdi comes our way
however, it must be noted that the in large part because of the rich pool of
separation from lansdowne mandate for industrial action remains. graduates. let’s ask corporations politely
road agreement (lra) but firmly to contribute modestly - a 1%
An important element of the union’s choice to be made levy would have yielded almost €400m
strategic approach has been to maintain The engagement with the department in 2015.
a clear separation between issues of key has commenced and is ongoing. further
concern and the lrA. This was done in meetings are scheduled for the weeks teaching council
respect of the junior Cycle and is now following Congress. every effort will be The incoming Council will have to
being done in relation to the key made by the union to make real contend with weighty issues, none more
matters that were the subject of ballot progress. if proposals emerge they will so than the commencement of part 5 of
and that are the focus of the current be brought back to you, the members, the Act - the investigative and
campaign and talks. for decision by way of a ballot. The logic disciplinary powers of the Council. The
of the situation is that were there to be Tui will insist on fair and due process
The lrA did not address our key such proposals and were they to be for everybody involved in processes
concerns. As a consequence it was not acceptable to members the quid pro under part 5. we will not countenance
accepted. Therefore, at present, we are quo for the department would be that exemplary sanctions designed to slake
party to the haddington road the Tui would become party to the any perceived thirst for blood. fairness
Agreement but not the lansdowne lrA. and proportionality is what all
road Agreement. Now we are, as it concerned deserve – nothing less.
were, approaching a crossroads. On the other hand, if proposals do not
emerge or if any proposals that may
emerge are unacceptable to members, a
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conGress 2016 – President’s address
‘TUI is a trade union on the move – let’s keep it
that way.’
Key points of tui President Gerry Quinn’s address to annual congress
2016 in Killarney.
Colleagues, we convene at our Annual for agreement. This document secures a lansdowne road agreement
Congress having spent a second year in national, SeC externally assessed, junior (lra)
succession campaigning, balloting, Certificate. it also explicitly states that The lrA both extends the timeframe of
threatening and taking industrial action the various workload implications “will the hrA until june 2018 and augments
on a number of different fronts. At the have to be accommodated within its terms by threatening to broaden the
end of my address to you at this point teacher timetables.” in july, an appendix, parameters for the prohibition of
last year i said that Tui is a trade union Professional Time To Support industrial action. however, while it sets
on the move and let’s keep it that way. Implementation, was agreed. This out a limited restoration of pay, it
you and the wider membership have appendix makes pioneering provision for disgracefully ignores the many thousands
been exemplary in your discipline and professional Time within teachers’ of teachers and lecturers who are
determination as we continue to be timetables. in total 22 hours of annual exploited and discriminated against in
active and make progress. Our number release from class contact time in order their pay. Tui will not tolerate
of members has for the first time ever to support the implementation of the indifference and inaction on the burning
reached and exceeded 15,000, an junior Cycle. This also has the benefit of issue of young teachers and lecturers
achievement which is in no small creating thousands of additional teaching without work or struggling to make a
measure due to the strategic and hours which can augment the teaching living. we will not tolerate pay
collective leadership shown by you the contracts of the thousands of teachers discrimination which affects those
Congress delegates. we have made on less than 22 hours. recruited since 2012. we will not
advances in our different campaigns to tolerate income poverty. And we will not
protect our livelihoods, our profession There are additional measures to tolerate the wanton destruction of our
and public education. we are committed protect against additional workload. profession.
to building on that progress and Subsequently in the autumn, Tui
asserting our rights as teachers, members involved with junior Cycle The lrA is also deathly silent on the
lecturers, other educators and trade voted strongly in favour of these many other injuries to our members
unionists. in doing so we are guided by documents. Our success in the junior including the unfair and unsustainable
our belief that education is both the soul Cycle campaign was also about how we workloads of lecturers in the ioTs and
of society and the engine of the won the argument, as decided by the the absence of proper contracts and
economy. jury of public opinion, with regard to conditions of many who work in further
what is educationally suitable in the irish and Adult education. No intelligent
Junior cycle campaign cultural context. observer of Tui could have been
in the junior Certificate campaign, we surprised that we voted so
achieved our key aims as set out by this i proposed and insisted on an overwhelmingly against the lrA.
Congress. These aims were to oppose implementation Committee as part of
school based assessment for junior the package of measures. This is achieved The union took advantage of the
Cycle certification. we aimed to retain and will monitor the implementation of window of opportunity before the
national certification and the external the reform and decide on interpretation general election and secured meaningful
assessment procedures as organised by of issues which arise. Critically, only ongoing engagement with the deS on
the State examinations Commission representatives of the unions and the our grievances. These issues and
(SeC). deS are on this committee. we need to grievances are across all our sectors,
use this committee, which has been from the exclusion of Tui from the
in addition, Congress set out the established, to ensure that the decision making structures of SOlAS to
requirement that there be no additional agreement delivers on its commitments the implementation of the Croke park
workload for teachers. The Minister and and that there is no additional work. The hours to the exclusion of youthreach
the department of education and Skills lessons from the junior Cycle campaign resource persons from the benefit in
(deS) agreed to these demands which are the power of united action across the ward report of a Cid after two
are enshrined in the negotiated teacher trade unions, the tactical use of years. These negotiations are ongoing
documents. This was done firstly in May strike action in combination with and the outcome will have to be balloted
of 2015 when the negotiation teams of effective directives and winning public on before long and in advance of the end
Tui and ASTi endorsed the document support with sound educational of this academic year. it will be the
Junior Cycle Reform Joint Statement on arguments. decision of our members if this outcome
Principles and Implementation as a basis
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where appropriate and decent contracts
and working conditions for all are long
overdue. it is vital that education
provision remains, that continuity of
employment and stability of teaching are
maintained and that proper conditions
for educators and students are provided
by a strong public education system. we
have used our ballot for industrial action
and the ongoing negotiations to press
these issues and to seek direct Tui
representation on the board of SOlAS
and the Apprenticeship Council. with
regard to apprenticeships, public
education management bodies will have
to up their game in making submissions
to SOlAS.
Pay discrimination
preSideNT gerry quiNN AddreSSeS CONgreSS
Colleagues, the well-being of our
younger members is of particular
adequately addresses what is so sorely in April 2015 guidelines which concern to us and Tui, as i noted earlier,
missing from the lrA. purported to be final and for is committed to challenging and
implementation were issued to correcting discrimination and income
technological universities education and Training boards. These poverty. we are also concerned about
while the relatively short time period guidelines contain no evidence of the future of the teaching profession
which remained before the dissolution of consideration by the deS of the union’s with regard to those graduates who may
the dáil provided enough time for the 2010 submission. it is unacceptable that have considered a teaching career but
Technological universities bill to pass, our views are ignored. it is all the more have been dissuaded from doing so, not
this was prevented by the combined unacceptable that unilateral guidelines only because of discrimination and
efforts of Tui branches, members and can be issued which have the clear casualisation, but also because of the
officials and Opposition Tds. Tui lobbied potential to increase workload and to time and financial burden of a two year
and provided, directly or indirectly, most create inappropriate work. This is all the professional Masters in education
of the 123 amendments for Opposition more a matter of concern given the followed by, on the insistence of the
education spokesperson and Tds. All of hugely challenging circumstances in Teaching Council, 300 hours of probated
this meant that the bill was not passed which our youthreach colleagues work. teaching. we are for quality training and
by the dáil before the general election. They are to be commended and probation but we are against
in the meantime Tui has balloted and supported for their professionalism and disproportionate time and financial
received a strong third level mandate for contribution to their students and demands on already financially stretched
industrial action to seek national society, not taken for granted with students and their parents or guardians.
negotiations before there is any further managerialist dismissiveness. The deS
movement on mergers or the 1916 centenary
must be made realise that Tui will insist finally colleagues, much if not all of our
Technological universities bill. we have on adequate consultation and
issued a directive prohibiting work resonates with this the anniversary
negotiation as and where appropriate. of the 1916 rising. The 1916 watershed
cooperation with mergers and we we will not allow any of our members
continue to use our mandate as in irish history had teachers and trade
be turned into serfs whose function is to unionism at the heart of its planning and
necessary to oppose any unwanted follow orders without question.
merger, to oppose any deterioration of implementation. The principled idealism
members’ conditions of service and to further and adult education of the lost leaders is embodied in the
oppose the undermining of the position Tui represents members in the Adult historic and living document which is the
of academics and the provision of and further education sector, a sector proclamation of the irish republic. for
regionally balanced and equitable which has proven to be hugely successful us in the Tui our agreed and written
education and training services. during its lifetime of about 30 years. objective to develop structures and
whether it is plC,vTOS or bTei, Tui practices to promote equality and
Youthreach members are in the frontline with work inclusion generally and in particular in
in November we held a successful ballot which is of major social, cultural and the Tui has distinct echoes of the
of youthreach members against any economic importance. it is vital that commitment in the proclamation that
imposition of additional or inappropriate teachers and the teaching profession are “The republic guarantees religious and
work arising from the unilateral protected in this sector and by civil liberty and equal rights and equal
youthreach Operator guidelines. extension the quality of service for the opportunities of all its citizens”.
students. proper teaching contracts
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tui ‘ireland 1916’ art competition
winners
in November 2015, Tui launched an art selected the best entry in each of the attend Congress 2016 at the gleneagle
competition with the theme ‘ireland following categories, along with an hotel, killarney on wednesday 30th
1916’. The competition was open to all overall winner: March 2016 to receive their prizes, and
students in Tui workplaces and entries a selection of entries was displayed as
could be submitted in one of the 13-15 years of age part of Tui’s 1916 exhibition at
following formats: Congress.
■
■ 16- 18 years of age
Special category
drawing or painting (any material)
■
further education/plC
Not pictured
■
visual media
■
■ 3rd level colleges
poetry Chloe Ni dhochartaigh - Coláiste Ailigh
■
■ Adult education
short story – 13-15 category winner
■
■
■ play The winner in each category received a Caroline johnstone – drogheda institute
■ song/ballad gift voucher for €250 and the overall of further education – fe/plC category
winner received a voucher for €500. winner
Almost 300 entries to the competition
were submitted and a panel of judges Some of the winners were able to giedre vilcauskienne – Carlow vTOS –
Adult education category winner
ediTh pOOle – OverAll wiNNer – whiTehAll COllege
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NiAMh hugheS – CATegOry: 16-18 yeArS Of Age – duNShAugliN COMMuNiTy COllege
ZANe SuTrA – CATegOry: Third level – CArlOw iT
AidAN COMMiNS – SpeCiAl CATegOry – jOhN SullivAN CeNTre, CO. kildAre
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academic gender equality is
realistic and achievable
by Dr Joe MacDonagh
in 2015 i was commissioned to report present is an acceptance by the State, in order to facilitate women in reaching
on academic gender inequality in the through the higher education Authority higher management positions, current
institute of Technology (ioT) sector. i and the department of education and ioT management needs to appoint an
presented my report to the 2016 Tui Skills initially, that the present means of equal amount of women to internal and
Congress in killarney and for those recruiting, selecting and promoting external working groups. This would
who haven’t had a chance to read the lecturers in the ioT sector has give women experience of working at
report i have been asked to summarise produced gender inequality at academic strategic levels and will help them in
its main findings. management levels. The State needs to applying for senior positions.
require senior ioT management to
Any analysis of ioT management change the way it recruits and selects Thus, when women come to apply for
positions shows that there is a gross academics as i do not believe there promotion, there need to be
imbalance in gender representation, currently is the “level playing field” that procedures which are fair and which
with almost all ioTs showing a many say will, in time, bring about embody international best practice.
disproportionately greater equality. i will briefly summarise the having analysed the current
representation of men at all ways in which i believe this situation procedures, i do not believe this to be
management levels. My brief was to can be rectified. the case. To rectify this i believe there
suggest ways in which this could be needs to be mandatory interview
addressed and to do so i interviewed in the first instance each ioT should be training in order to combat potential
male and female public and private required to report to the heA at least unconscious bias and to train
sector lecturers and experts at all each year on the demographic profile of interviewers in modern interview
organisational levels from educational its staff and of those who have applied techniques. These need to be
and non-educational backgrounds, both for employment in that institute, supplemented with modern
inside and outside the ioT sector. whether successful or not. This has psychometric testing techniques, as
been in place in other jurisdictions for used in top performing and diversity
key to rectifying what is a over twenty years. inclusive international workplaces.
fundamentally unequal situation at
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furthermore, the criteria for promotion female needs so i believe there needs to solution will require the State to spend
need to be more gender equal as, at be greater provision of training for money and require the ioTs to achieve
present, they tend to favour those who women, provided by the ioTs, to international equality standards, such as
do not have in-depth family develop professional and managerial the Athena Swan award. i believe the
responsibilities. in other words, women competencies. This is common practice State needs to do so to guarantee the
need to be given more supports when in private sector companies in human rights of all in the institute of Technology
they have child and family resource development programmes sector. by doing so it can make this
responsibilities and the criteria by which and there is no reason why courses and sector fairer and more equal for all
they are assessed for promotion need to training schemes should not be provided concerned.
emphasise the quality of researching and in this regard. Male managers frequently
teaching outputs as well as the quantity, get sponsored to attend MbA courses Dr Joe MacDonagh is a Chartered
the latter being easier to achieve if and the like and more female managers Psychologist and a former President of the
someone can spend more time in the should be considered for these. Psychological Society of Ireland.
workplace.
All this requires greater acceptance by
The workplace is often one which is the State and the ioTs that there is a
more attuned to male rather than problem and that there is a solution. The
former tui President and
General secretary Maurice
holly – an appreciation
The following text was provided by Sean the work of the general Secretary,
Cooney, who served as President of TUI Maurice was most enthusiastic and
between 1967 and 1969. energised by this.
it was with great sadness that i learned Maurice excelled at our executive
of the passing on Christmas day of our meetings and was always well briefed
former Tui president Maurice holly. on the documents and circulars issued
Maurice, who proudly hailed from by the department of education and
Tarbert in Co kerry, served as president on the impacts these would have on
of the Tui from 1969-1971, directly after teachers. in all his dealings he was
my own term. we spent four years on courteous and pleasant and, above all,
the executive together, where our fair.
friendship developed through our desire
to improve the lot of those involved in This work involved a lot of time away
teaching in ireland. following his term as from home while both of us had young
president, Maurice went on to become families at the time. however Maurice’s Maurice was a kind and decent
general Secretary of the union for a wife eileen and my own wife Maureen gentleman who served our union well
period until he went back to the (rip) also formed a firm friendship and was highly regarded by all. he was a
education service as school principal. which blossomed each year at our wonderful family man and his loss will be
This was a time of great change as the Annual Congress. we always looked great to eileen and his five sons, his
veCs were being developed and forward to Congress, especially after we grandchildren and greatgrandchildren.
community schools were established both retired, for our annual get-
requiring large recruitment of teachers, togethers where we caught up with Suaimhneas síoraí dá anam uasal.
with the resulting increase in union news of each other’s growing family as
membership. while this greatly increased we became grandparents.
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survey of teachers on student
behaviour/discipline issues in schools
Tui would like to thank the 215 ■ The methods most commonly used ■ 68% of respondents have not
members who spent time completing by respondents to manage student received any training in behaviour
the online survey on discipline issues in behaviour were: displaying rules in management in the last twelve
schools. The survey was conducted in the classroom, having a system in months.
late 2015 and the key results are as place to follow through on sanctions,
follows: praising good behaviour, having a ■ in schools which had access to
seating plan. support from the National behaviour
■ 94% of respondents indicated that and Support Service (NbSS),
their school had a code of behaviour ■ The least frequently used methods of respondents expressed a variety of
in place. managing student behaviour were: views on how access to NbSS had
detention, removing students from helped the school. Some
■ 45% indicated that behaviour in their class or sending students to senior respondents indicated that NbSS had
school was good or very good. 30% staff. made a significant contribution.
indicated that it was poor or very Other respondents were far more
poor. ■ 65% of respondents rated the critical of the level of impact
training in behaviour management achieved.
■ 49% agreed that they felt supported they received in initial teacher
in managing student behaviour, but education as poor or very poor. it it is clear from the above that some
28% disagreed. should be noted that 91% of all schools are still experiencing difficulty in
respondents have been in teaching relation to student behaviour/discipline
■ An extraordinary 70% indicated that issues. These findings will inform Tui’s
more than five years so this question
appropriate training was not available
may elicit different responses policies as we seek to secure further,
in their school for teachers who
depending on when the respondent targeted resources for schools which
might be struggling to manage
completed initial teacher training. require them.
student behaviour.
ncca consultation processes
currently ongoing
The NCCA is currently seeking the views of teachers in a number of areas. Those areas are:
■ reporting in junior Cycle
■ junior Cycle wellbeing
■ junior Cycle Music
■ junior Cycle Modern foreign languages
■ junior Cycle visual Art (formerly Art, Craft and design)
■ philosophy short course
Tui strongly recommends that teachers participate in the consultation processes relevant to them.
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new and recently elected
executive committee members
with effect from Congress 2016, there are three new members of the Tui executive Committee. in addition, the Area 5
representative, don ryan, was replaced upon his retirement during this academic year.
area 1 area 5 area 7 area 9
(eTb areas: wicklow, kildare, laois (eTb areas: Tipperary Nr, Clare (eTb areas: kerry (eTb areas: Cork City
and Carlow): and limerick City): and Co limerick): and Co Cork):
liZ farrell Maura carroll leonard o’ donnell MiKe lYons
(colaiste eoin, (education unit, limerick (causeway comprehensive (Kinsale adult Basic
hacketstown, co. carlow) Prison, limerick) school, causeway, tralee, education service, Kinsale
replaces Seamus Burke replaced Don Ryan in co. Kerry) road accomodation
September 2015 replaces Sean Kennedy centre, Kinsale road,
cork)
replaces Donal McElligott
Sincere thanks are extended to Seamus Burke, Don Ryan, Sean Kennedy and Donal
McElligott for their dedication and hard work on behalf of members over the course of
their terms on the Executive Committee.
tui representatives on
teaching council
Congratulations are extended to Mairéad Glynn
(community and comprehensive schools sector)
and denis Magner (etB sector leinster), who were
elected to the Teaching Council following an online election
that took place between february 22nd and March 9th.
A third Tui-endorsed candidate, séamus Ó fearraigh
(etB sector connaught, Munster and ulster), was
not opposed and had already been deemed elected.
Separately, Tui was entitled to nominate two representatives SuCCeSSful TeAChiNg COuNCil eleCTiON CANdidATeS
to the Teaching Council. These are: Gerry Quinn, tui MAiréAd glyNN ANd deNiS MAgNer piCTured AT The
President and claire Markey, executive ANNOuNCeMeNT Of reSulTS
committee member and area representative for
co dublin and dun laoghaire etB. The Council has 37 members and 22 of these are teachers,
16 elected by teachers and 6 nominated by the teacher
gerry quinn will serve as chair of the newly constituted unions.
Council. The new term of office began in April.
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a fitting 1916 centenary
commemoration at congress 2016
with no Minister for education and
Skills in attendance at Annual
Congress this year, wednesday’s
keynote address duties were ably
assumed by Tui members Seán
Connolly (great-grandson of james
Connolly) and joe Macdonagh
(grandnephew of Thomas
Macdonagh).
in what proved an extremely
memorable and appropriate
addition to the Annual Congress
2016 programme, both gave unique
and compelling reflections on their
family histories, the events of 1916
and the current commemorations. it
was no surprise that they received
standing ovations for their
fascinating and moving
presentations.
Seán teaches in rathmines College
and joe lectures in Tallaght institute SeÁN CONNOlly ANd jOe MACdONAgh AT CONgreSS 2016
of Technology.
industrial action in relation to concerns
regarding proposed technological
universities Bill 2015
Tui members in the institute of Therefore, commencing from 4th April ■ aligning academic policies and
Technology sector recently voted 2016, and until directed otherwise by procedures, including marks and
overwhelmingly for industrial action in the executive Committee, all members standards, for a merger
relation to concerns regarding mergers of Tui are directed not to cooperate ■ developing quality assurance
at third level. with any merger activities relating to the procedures for a merger
proposed Technological universities. ■ participating in corporate
The ballot was on the following This directive includes non-cooperation engagement relating to a merger
proposition. with:
■ promotional activities and/or
enrolments relating to a merger
“In view of the failure of government ■ arranging and participating in merger-
to address the deep concerns of ■ any administrative tasks related to a
related meetings
members of the TUI in relation to merger
■ aligning programmes for a merger
mergers of institutes of technology
and the serious implications of such
■ developing new programmes relating each member of the union in the sector
mergers, and in order to secure a to a merger is required to adhere to this directive.
negotiated, national resolution of ■ developing new research work
these issues, do you agree to engage in relating to a merger The union is engaged in an on-going
a campaign of industrial action, up to ■ developing new structures, campaign to have the Technological
and including strike action, as directed governance and management for a universities bill 2015 significantly
by the Executive Committee.” merger amended.
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annual congress 2016 report
resolutions carried
• pay based on the common basic scale
• an allowance for post-graduate qualifications
a. conditions of service - second level • access to promotional posts
• proper pension provision.
1. co donegal/ executive committee/
dublin city(x3) 2. co cork /dublin city
Congress strongly condemns the improper use of Congress demands that the executive of Tui asks the deS
resource teaching hours in schools. Congress notes the to conduct a national audit of all teaching hours allocated
practice by management in some schools to further to second level schools and all teaching hours actually
disadvantage clearly vulnerable students by diverting used at second level schools and centres to ascertain if
resources allocated to support such students away from there is an unwarranted discrepancy between both figures
them and in some cases to substitute for management and to quantify the effect it has on students. Tui members
structures that have been removed from schools. on the ground suspect that resource, learning support and
Congress instructs the executive Committee initiate a special needs education hours are being used to
campaign that will bring about the correct, ethical and inappropriately shore up the middle management
moral use of such resources, along with the restoration of structures in secondary schools by using these hours.
middle management structures in our schools.
Congress further instructs the executive Committee to
support other bodies that are campaigning for the proper
and ethical use of resource allocations and bring abuses of B. conditions of service – third level
such allocations to the attention of the department of
education and Skills and the NCSe.
35. cork colleges
6. co carlow(x2)/dublin city/dublin & Congress instructs the executive to demand and campaign
dún laoghaire against deterioration of terms and conditions of members
Congress instructs the executive to demand the with respect to:
restoration of ex quota guidance Counsellors as a matter 1. flex hours and workload
of urgency. This would enable vulnerable students 2. restoration of pay
especially at level 4 qqi to stay on and progress in 3. The draconian anti-union feMpi legislation
education. 4. discriminatory sick leave and sick pay provisions
5. forced mergers of ioTs and proposed Technological
10. co donegal/co laois university legislation
Congress notes with concern the increased prevalence 6. pension levy
and demands for peer observation in our schools and its 7. Treatment of researchers
recommendation on numerous occasions by the 8. Maternity leave.
inspectorate. Congress instructs the executive
Committee to formulate and to introduce a robust 34. executive committee(x2)/iadt dun
national policy to counter the progression from peer laoghaire/it tallaght(x2)/dundalk it/
observation to peer evaluation. furthermore, Congress it tralee
rejects any notion of T.u.i. members assessing their Congress notes that the institutes of Technology Sector, as
colleagues whether they are newly qualified teachers or a consequence of the employment control framework
long serving teachers. Congress reaffirms that evaluation from 2009 to 2015, is critically underfunded and
of teachers is entirely a matter for the inspectorate. understaffed with the result that academic staff have
excessive and oppressive workloads and that both the
18. co cork service to students and the capacity to engage in
Congress instructs the executive to ballot members for a constructive research have been severely impaired.
mandate to immediately issue a directive that all members Congress therefore commits the union to a sustained
cease to deliver Supervision and Substitution hours in the campaign, including appropriate industrial action, to secure
event that agreed Supervision and Substitution payments adequate funding and staffing levels and to achieve delivery
for teachers are withheld for any reason. and workload levels that are aligned to international
norms.
11. co laois
Congress calls on the executive Committee to 27. iadt dun laoghaire/it tallaght/executive
immediately engage in negotiations with the deS to strive committee
for all teachers to have: Congress notes that one of the foundation documents of
• 22 hour contracts, the ioT sector, the 1967 Mulcahy report, states: “we are
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concerned that the progress of these Colleges should not
be deterred by any artificial limitation of either the scope
or the level of their educational achievements”. Congress
notes that the expertise and hard work of academic staff
have transformed the sector in the intervening decades
and that university status is an aspiration for some
institutes. however, Congress instructs the executive:
1. To continue to oppose the artificial condition that a
merger must take place before an application for
technological university status can be made
2. To take action, including industrial action if necessary, to
ensure that appropriate consultation and negotiation
between management and Tui occurs in relation to any
proposals
3. To support branches which oppose ill-considered
merger proposals
4. To support branches which take the position that their
institute can make a stand-alone application for the 1970s when the then rTCs predominantly engaged in
university or technological university status leaving certificate, higher certificate, and national diploma
5. To protect the regional missions of our institutes courses. The expertise and hard work of academic staff
6. To ensure that nationally agreed academic contracts have transformed the sector to the point where honours
continue to govern the sector. degrees and higher level qualifications are now central
concerns. Congress instructs the executive that the
36. executive committee/it tallaght (amended weekly lecturing load is wholly inappropriate for today’s
by dublin colleges) ioTs (even without the flex hours) and to lodge claims and
Congress notes with extreme disappointment that more to campaign for weekly lecturing requirements in line with
new apprenticeship proposals came from the private international norms.
sector than from the public sector in response to the
Apprenticeship Council’s call for applications, while only 7 28. cork colleges
out of 26 proposals classified as Category A were Congress instructs the executive to resist development of
submitted by public sector providers. Congress notes the Technological universities under the currently proposed
failure of most education and Training boards, and many legislation (Technological universities bill 2015) using all
institutes of Technology, to secure new apprenticeships means including industrial action.
which would ensure that education remained a public
service. Congress further notes that many private 41. it tralee
providers have entered into arrangements with human Congress instructs the executive to compel the institute
resources companies in order to assist in ensuring of Technologies through the department of education and
progression from their education services into the job Skills to sign up to the Code of practice for the
market. Congress instructs the executive to engage with appointments to positions in the Civil Service and public
public educational management bodies to advise them of Service which would engender a higher degree of
the inadequacy of their submissions to SOlAS to date, to robustness and transparency in recruitment.
engage with management bodies to insist that
opportunities to develop public sector provision are not 43. limerick colleges
missed and to ensure that future submissions are Congress instructs the executive to seek long service
sufficiently robust to compete with private providers and increments for those on the lecturer scale and above.
to seek a fair allocation of Apprentices across all ioTs so
that all institutes retain their capacity to provide 45. dundalk itcongress notes the proposals from
apprentice education in the future. Congress condemns the executive to pursue all outstanding claims of
the imposition of the student registration charge on members under lCr 18366. Congress instructs the
apprentices. executive to refer those cases where management and the
official side fail to implement lCr18366 in full, back to the
37. limerick colleges labour Court.
Congress instructs the executive to reinforce the work of
the Apprenticeship working party of the Tui by every 29. it tallaght
means possible, in order to ensure that designated institutes of Technology serve their regions well by
apprenticeship programmes at phase 4 and phase 6 remain creating educational opportunities for people in local
with the ioT sector. communities, both for school leavers and in terms of life-
long learning. The Technological universities bill seeks to
25. it tallaght /iadt dun laoghaire /executive change the focus of ioTs from education to the training of
committee/dundalk it individuals for the wants of business and enterprise.
Congress notes that the so-called flex hours impose Congress rejects this ideology and instructs the executive
higher weekly lecturing hours in ioTs than were in place in to campaign vigorously to ensure that the ethos of our
20 May 2016 - Tui NewStui neWs
education system remains focused on the well-being of
our people and communities and is not cravenly
surrendered to self-serving business interests.
31. it tallaght/athlone it(x2)
Congress notes that the Technological universities bill
allows individual Tus to develop their own contracts of
employment. Congress is gravely concerned that the Tu
process may undermine the contracts of existing staff
and/or impose inferior contracts on future entrants.
Congress instructs the executive to immediately ballot for
industrial action up to and including strike action if any
attempt is made to introduce non-nationally agreed
academic contracts.
Congress further instructs the executive to ensure that
conditions of service for future new entrants to the
lecturing profession are not diminished by the mergers of week in order to qualify. This excludes many Tui members
ioTs or the creation of Technological universities. who have less than 19 hours per week.
furthermore Congress should instruct the executive to
32. it tralee/athlone it resolve the issues with the deS and dSp with regard to
Congress instructs the executive to ensure that all the percentage holiday pay and prSi affecting teachers’
contracts and conditions of service and superannuation applications for job seekers allowance.
are nationally agreed under the proposed Tu structures.
55. co offaly (amended by dublin c&c)
38. cork colleges Congress instructs the executive to negotiate with the
Congress instructs the executive to negotiate similar deS for parental leave for teachers to be brought in-line
contract provisions and pensions for researchers as those with other areas of the public sector. for example,
of academic staff. teachers should be allowed take their parental leave one
day per week rather than in weekly blocks.
39. cork colleges
Congress instructs the executive to investigate how
institutes of Technology are dealing with the pension
contributions coming from funded research contracts and
to conduct a media campaign to highlight this issue. d. adult education
42. limerick colleges
Congress instructs the executive to seek appropriate 61. co cork /executive committee
arrangements in ioTs which would enable the taking of There is no reasonable contract, job description, pay-scale
academic sabbaticals by members in the third level sector. or nationally agreed terms and conditions of work for
tutors. in examining the putative nationally agreed “Cid”
contract for tutors, Tui should reject any attempt to
crystallise or enshrine, in a sub-standard contract such as
c. conditions of service – General this, the often adverse and very precarious terms and
conditions endured by our tutor colleagues to date. Tutors
deserve to know what their timetable for the coming
57. executive committee academic session is to be and what the hours of work will
Congress notes the failure of some employers to issue be on a weekly basis. To award hours in blocks and place
contracts within the timescales set out in the Terms of multiple and unacceptable conditions on the delivery of
employment (information) Act, 1994 and instructs the these hours is grossly unfair and repugnant to Tui.
executive to ensure that all breaches of such timescales Congress calls on the executive to demand that the
are dealt with speedily through the available statutory precarious work of tutors be regulated properly in how
mechanisms. contracts and work are assigned to tutors. in this regard
Congress instructs the executive to convene a
49. executive committee consultative conference with a view to exploring the most
Congress calls on the executive, as a matter of urgency appropriate manner of bringing to an end the offensive
and in line with the relevant Collective Agreements, to practice of engaging workers in such poorly remunerated
seek negotiations for voluntary redeployment schemes for positions, which carry few of the terms and conditions of
members on a national basis. service of other education grades.
52. co limerick(X2) /co. Kerry 64. executive committee/co clare/co sligo
Congress instructs the executive to engage with the deS Congress notes that the public service moratorium has
and dSp to seek changes in the family income Support resulted in an embargo on the replacement and/or
Supplement which requires a minimum of 19 hours per
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