The lack of available teachers has reached crisis point with new figures revealing 75 percent of schools that advertised positions in the previous six months had no applicants.
New findings of a survey carried out by the TUI revealed 60 per cent of schools have unfilled vacancies due to recruitment and retention difficulties.
Almost one-in-five schools have been forced to drop subjects
TUI General Secretary Michael Gillespie says teaching is not an attractive employment proposition:
