Archive for the 'President' Category
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
Dr Marie Clarke, University College Dublin, has taken over as the new President of the Irish Federation of University Teachers (IFUT) following the organisation’s recent Annual Delegate Conference.
Dr Clarke is currently Head of the School of Education in UCD and has been a member of IFUT Executive for a number of years. Her biography and [...]
Posted in ADC Delegates, Annual Delegate Conference, News, President, UCD | 151 Comments »
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
Recent suggestions regarding the public service being ‘not fit for purpose’ do not apply to the universities and their academic staff; instead, levels of productivity are being increased amid income cuts of up to 25%, Dr Hugh Gibbons, President of the Irish Federation of University Teachers (IFUT), states in an address to be delivered to [...]
Posted in Annual Delegate Conference, Department of Education and Science, Department of Finance, Employment Control Framework, Funding, HEA, Irish Third-Level, National Agreements, News, President, Promotions, Redundancies, Salaries | 128 Comments »
Tuesday, October 5th, 2010
Tuesday, 5 October 2010 is World Teachers’ Day. World Teachers’ Day, held annually on 5 October since 1994, commemorates the anniversary of the signing in 1966 of the UNESCO/ILO Recommendation Concerning the Status of Teachers. It [...]
Posted in ASTI, EI, Funding, INTO, Irish Primary Level, Irish Secondary Level, Irish Third-Level, News, President, TUI, World Teachers' Day | 27 Comments »
Saturday, April 24th, 2010
The Irish University system has always had to struggle and was never properly funded, even during the years of the Celtic Tiger, the President of the Irish Federation of University Teachers, Hugh Gibbons, said in his address to the 2010 IFUT Annual Delegate Conference today (Saturday, 24 April 2010). Now the Irish University system is [...]
Posted in Academic Freedom, Annual Delegate Conference, Contracts, Department of Education and Science, Department of Finance, Funding, HEA, Irish Third-Level, News, President, Promotions, Rationalisation, Redeployment, Redundancies, Salaries, Tenure | 4 Comments »
Thursday, December 10th, 2009
The General Secretaries and Presidents of the four teacher unions met this morning to consider the impact of the budget on teachers and their families and plan a response.
The leadership of the unions is determined to reflect the anger of teachers at the budget cuts to salaries and changes to pensions through a sustained campaign [...]
Posted in ASTI, Department of Education and Science, Department of Finance, Funding, General Secretary, INTO, Industrial action, Institutions, Irish Primary Level, Irish Secondary Level, Irish Third-Level, Minister for Education, National Agreements, News, Partnership, President, Rationalisation, Salaries, TUI | 1 Comment »
Friday, October 2nd, 2009
The IFUT Badge was formally launched at a reception in the Gresham Hotel, Dublin on Friday, 2 October 2009.
The launch was attended by IFUT President, Hugh Gibbons, the General Secretary, Mike Jennings, members of the IFUT Executive and IFUT Council and a number of past Presidents.
Photographs from the event will be available shortly.
Posted in Council, Executive, General Secretary, Membership, News, President | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
ASTI, IFUT, INTO and TUI have declared their total opposition to cuts in the pay of their members. Such cuts are totally unacceptable and will be resisted.
The General Secretaries and Presidents of the four Teacher Unions issued a Joint Statement after their meeting today (Tuesday, 22 September 2009). “We want to send a crystal clear [...]
Posted in ASTI, Department of Education and Science, Department of Finance, General Secretary, HEA, INTO, Industrial action, Irish Primary Level, Irish Secondary Level, Irish Third-Level, Minister for Education, News, President, Salaries, TUI | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
The Presidents and General Secretaries of the four teacher unions (ASTI, IFUT, INTO and TUI) met today (8 September 2009) to prepare a strategy against further attacks on the education system in the coming months.
All four unions are gravely concerned that cutbacks already in place are having a detrimental effect on the education system. Staffing [...]
Posted in ASTI, An Bord Snip Nua, Contracts, Department of Education and Science, Department of Finance, Fixed-term contracts, Funding, General Secretary, HEA, INTO, Industrial action, Irish Primary Level, Irish Secondary Level, Irish Third-Level, Minister for Education, News, President, TUI, Tenure | 1 Comment »
Friday, September 5th, 2008
IFUT ratified Dr Hugh Gibbons as its Incoming President at a meeting of the Executive this morning, Friday, 5 September.
He will serve alongside Dr Joe Brady, current IFUT President, until Joe’s term of office expires next year.
Dr Gibbons is currently a Vice-President of IFUT and Chair of the IFUT branch in Trinity College Dublin. He [...]
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