The next crisis facing the Irish education system will be a shortage of school principals due to the impact of their “ever expanding” workload, it has been warned. The retention of school leaders has become a significant issue amidst recruitment difficulties within the teaching sector, according to Kieran Golden, president of the National Association of Principals and Deputy Principals (NAPD). To help alleviate principals’ workload, the National Association of Principals and Deputy Principals is now calling for allocations of additional principal and clerical staff posts to be based on an incremental sliding scale. More than 600 principals and deputy principals are expected to attend the two-day NAPD conference, with Education Minister Joe McHugh due to make an address tomorrow morning. "However, we are currently a considerable distance away from making this happen.”The NAPD conference is expected to focus on school management, GDPR and new technologies.

Source: Irish Examiner October 17, 2019 00:00 UTC