{"id":10391,"date":"2025-09-09T17:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T17:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/10391\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T17:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T17:51:08","slug":"tui-warns-of-crisis-as-ireland-ranks-last-in-education-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/10391\/","title":{"rendered":"TUI Warns Of Crisis As Ireland Ranks Last In Education Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Tuesday, 9 September 2025 12:44\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/62ebbb817d23f.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n             Ireland is also below the OECD average for teachers\u2019 starting salary.\n        <\/p>\n<p>The TUI says without proper funding, Ireland&#8217;s education system won&#8217;t survive.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An OECD report published today found that Ireland is bottom of an international league table for government expenditure on second-level education as a proportion of GDP.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The report also shows Ireland is below the OECD average for teachers\u2019 starting salary and salary after 10 years\u2019 teaching experience.<\/p>\n<p>Tullamore&#8217;s Michael Gillespie, General Secretary, of the TUI, says Ireland needs to buck the trend of decreasing budgetary spending in education:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>[CLIP]<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, 9 September 2025 12:44 Ireland is also below the OECD average for teachers\u2019 starting salary. The TUI&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3279,319,61,60,2673,8285,1529,8284,8282,8283,43,8286,700,59],"class_list":["post-10391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-broadcast","tag-broadcasting","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-news","tag-laois","tag-local-news","tag-local-radio","tag-midlands","tag-midlands-103","tag-news","tag-offaly","tag-radio","tag-westmeath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}