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Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

Maurice Cummins: ...invitation, and these are listed on pages 71 to 76 of the report. Many of them were asked to give oral reports to that committee, and these are documented also. Several trade unions, including the TUI, gave oral presentations to the committee. It is those reports that the working group is examining. All the people mentioned by Senator Craughwell have been consulted. I have no problem...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)

Terry Leyden: ...the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, to come to the House to outline exactly the situation regarding her intransigence in these negotiations with the teachers unions, the TUI and ASTI? There are 27,000 teachers and 350,000 students who are out today.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Nov 2014) See 1 other result from this debate

Maurice Cummins: ...State at the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Deputy Joe McHugh, but I am not sure - and I will try to get an answer for the Senator. Senator Mullins and others called on the ASTI and the TUI to withdraw strike threats regarding the changes to the junior cycle. Members have expressed different opinions on that and on the call for the unions to ballot their members. I...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Nov 2014)

John Whelan: I appreciate that and I will conclude. I would also like to extend the same invitation to the ASTI and the TUI leadership to withdraw from the proposed strike action with regard to reform of the junior cycle. The Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, has brought forward very fair concessions which have not been put to the membership. Many teachers I have spoken to are...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Nov 2014)

Paschal Mooney: ...is that both sides are very close in terms of a resolution on the junior cycle reforms programme and that the main bone of contention is about the teacher's assessment. The Teachers Union of Ireland, TUI, in particular, and the other teachers' unions do not want internal assessment. There is a proposal on the floor that these assessments, the 40% in relation to the junior cycle...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Further Education and Training Strategy: Discussion (12 Nov 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...would be difference in the ethos and possibly the outcome. The question of the move towards working all year round would be a major one for Dr. Rigney, who represents ICTU, which would include the TUI and other unions. What is the current position? Have there been negotiations with the unions, the teachers and the trainers or is it just one of those ideas put out which, all of a...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2014) See 1 other result from this debate

Jim D'Arcy: ...that the Minister, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, arrived at an offer of 60% standardised assessment. To be quite honest, I never thought the unions were seeking total standardisation, as the president of the TUI, Mr. Gerry Quinn, said this morning on RTE radio. He said that the system had to be standardised and not open to opinion. A mother knows her baby, a shepherd knows his flock and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (16 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: 193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the fact that both secondary school unions the TUI and ASTI are opposed to the introduction of the new junior certificate and that the joint managerial body has called on her to drop school based assessment for the terminal exam for a five-year period; if she will engage with the unions and the JMB, Joint Managerial Body, and issue...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Oct 2014) See 1 other result from this debate

Paschal Mooney: ...also elected to this House in a by-election, primarily because the then Government held a majority. I am sure Senator Craughwell's time here will be well spent. Senator O'Sullivan referred to the TUI. I live in Drumshanbo, County Leitrim, and all the teachers in the local vocational school, with which Senator Craughwell will be familiar, are members of the TUI and from that point of...

Other Questions: School Curriculum (8 Oct 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...respect, those being, the parents, school management representatives and students, whose group I also met. As soon as I could following my appointment, I wrote to the unions and met the ASTI and TUI together on this issue. I have also met each of the unions separately on general issues. At our joint meeting, we agreed to meet again. That will probably be later this month or early next...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Sep 2014)

Paschal Mooney: ...the Minister for Education and Skills to come to the House to discuss the junior certificate reform proposals that have caused enormous dissent and controversy among the teaching profession. The TUI is balloting on whether it should take strike action in this regard and these proposals have been met with stiff resistance by the teaching unions. The other two unions have today called on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Oversight (15 Jul 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...Department will be advised, and support and evaluation measures will be provided for the school. Teachers are professionals, I have confidence in their professionalism and integrity. ASTI and the TUI emphasise the teacher's role as that of an advocate, rather than as a judge of their students. But Junior Cycle is different to Senior Cycle. We are fortunate that over 90% of our young people...

Other Questions: School Curriculum (8 Jul 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: I am curious to know to which working group the Deputy is referring. There is a working group in place which consists of officials from the Department and representatives of the TUI, the ASTI, the school management bodies, the NAPD, Educate Together, parents, the NCCA and the SEC. This working group met on 17 January, 7 February, 7 March and 29 May. It was established to address the...

Other Questions: State Examinations Reviews (29 May 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: A national working group has been established to see how best we can achieve this welcome reform of our junior cycle system. The group includes representatives from the Teachers Union of Ireland, TUI, the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland, ASTI, all the school management bodies, the National Association of Principals and Deputy Principals, NAPD, Educate Together, the National Council...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Implementation of Junior Cycle Student Award: Minister for Education and Skills (13 May 2014) See 2 other results from this debate

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I referred to trust, which is very important. Can the Minister regain the trust and the communicative trust in the 55% of teachers in the ASTI and the TUI? Maybe he does not want to regain the trust. There is an impasse. What moves has the Minister put in place to bring about that regaining of trust since the conference? That is the reality and is locked into the timeline we have been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of Technological Universities Bill: Discussion (16 Apr 2014) See 3 other results from this debate

...would be improved with those kinds of changes. Perhaps a type of Schoolsnet funding model would bring employers into funding the systems. All those measures would go some way to addressing the TUI's concerns. If employers are proactive in funding the system, they may begin to address a future apprenticeship model that works and is sustainable from the student and institutional...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Apr 2014)

Diarmuid Wilson: ..., Deputy Quinn, the need for him to intervene personally in the dispute that started last Monday between the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland, ASTI, and the Teachers Union of Ireland, TUI, regarding the proposed changes to the junior certificate? This dispute is not going to go away and it must be resolved. I am keen to see it resolved sooner rather than later before the people...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: State Examinations Reviews (25 Feb 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: ...of stakeholders through the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment structures, including the junior cycle board and the council. I personally attended the following seven meetings with TUI representatives: a deputation from the TUI on 8 December 2011; a deputation from the TUI on 2 April 2012; the TUI annual conference on 11 April 2012; Gerry Craughwell, president of the TUI, on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Reviews (25 Feb 2014) See 1 other result from this answer

Thomas Pringle: 145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way he is to address the concerns of the TUI and ASTI regarding the junior cycle student award ahead of balloting their members on industrial action; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9157/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (25 Feb 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: I regret the announcement by the ASTI and TUI of the fact that they are balloting their members on industrial action on the new Junior Cycle Student Award (JCSA). I have considered the concerns expressed by the unions and others in relation to the new JCSA. In that context, I have responded to their concerns in relation to the implementation of the Framework on Junior Cycle. I have slowed...