Urgent appeal issued for teachers to correct Leaving and Junior Cert papers

An urgent appeal has been issued for teachers to correct Leaving and Junior Cert exam papers with less than a fortnight to go before the examinations begin.

Examiners are urgently needed for nine Leaving Cert and 10 Junior Cert subjects in what has become an almost annual emergency.

The exams begin on June 5 and recruits have to be ready to provide almost four weeks of full-time work beginning June 11 at the earliest when the first of a series of training sessions take place.

Ideally, applicants should be teachers or retired teachers but others with third-level qualifications will be considered. Payment varies depending on the subject, level and length of paper but rates go from just under €5 to over €30 per paper.

The State Examinations Commission (SEC) said the rates were being increased by 2% this year and the pension-related deduction, which usually takes 10.5% off, is being scrapped.

Subjects with pressing shortages are Leaving Cert Business, French, German, English, geography, Spanish and home economics, and Junior Cert maths, science, Irish, German, Spanish, history, geography, business, home economics, religion and CSPE.

But applicants in all other subjects are also being invited to apply to fill vacancies that are likely to arise when other applicants drop out.

For more information and to apply visit the State Examinations Commission's careers page here.

Source: Irish Examiner 24th May 2019