Question: My daughter is a primary teacher who’s on the second year of a career break. However, there is a major change on the horizon for our primary school system, resulting from Ireland’s demographic profile. Our primary school system has coped well over the past decade in educating record numbers thanks to a baby boom. By any measure, it has been an impressive achievement on the part of policymakers in the Department of Education, school management and teachers throughout the country. In time, your daughter, if she decides to let go of her current teaching contract, will secure a new one.

Source: The Irish Times February 13, 2018 00:00 UTC