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Students say college levies are 'fees by the back door'

A NEW row over third-level funding has been sparked by student union claims that colleges are using most of their €1,500-a-head registration charges to plug gaps in state funding.

IT lecturers only spend 16 hours teaching a week

By Michael Brennan

LECTURERS in Institutes of Technology are only teaching 480 hours out of the 560 they are contracted to -- and are paid extra to correct their exam papers.

Big fall in teacher sick leave saves State €25m

By Michael Brennan Political Correspondent

The number of uncertified sick days taken by teachers has dropped by as much as 38pc since changes were introduced to the substitution scheme.

College staff quit ahead of blitz on pensions

By John Walshe and Michael Brennan

MORE than 50 senior academics are retiring from UCD this year, ahead of a clampdown on generous pension top-ups.

Concern over mixed-ability secondary classes

By Katherine Donnelly

THE Department of Education has questioned how primary patron Educate Together's policy of not segregating pupils of different abilities would be applied in second-level schools.

Govt cuts will lead to alienation, not integration

By E. Grade

Oh no, they've called a strike for the 24th! We're not allowed to go to work next Tuesday. It's not that, like the commentators on RTE, I'm afraid of what the IMF will do to us if we're caught protesting (do they have an air force that could bomb us or do they just stop our pocket-money?), it's because I was really looking forward to going to work that day.