Jonathan O'Brien
Ceist:152. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of contractual teaching hours fulfilled in third level institutions in the academic year 2011/12. [41361/12]
Amharc ar fhreagraTuesday, 2 October 2012
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Freagraí scríofa
Individual higher education institutions have autonomous responsibility for the management of staff resources. While teaching hours norms are specified under standard agreed contracts for academic staff in the institute of technology sector, in the case of the university sector there would be a variation of individual teaching loads as part of overall academic duties.
Under the terms of the Public Service Agreement (Croke Park), from the start of 2011/12 academic year, university academics are required to provide an additional hour per week to facilitate teaching and learning and to co-operate with academic workload management and full economic costing models to improve the quality of information available for resource management in universities. In the Institute of Technology sector lecturing staff, where required by management, are delivering up to an additional two class contact hours per week above the current weekly norms.