Unions criticise minimal salary internship
Two teaching unions have strongly criticized a minimum wage internship for instructors using Stranmillis University College in Belfast.The university is presenting two "graduate internships" at Dundonald Primary School in Belfast.They are paid at a charge of £7.70 an hour.The posts are for currently-qualified teachers best and contain five work days in the college each week for the 2019-20 school 12 months.The NASUWT said the scheme should be suspended immediately, even as the Ulster Teachers' Union (UTU) called it "ludicrous."Stranmillis University College advised BBC News NI that the internships had been, in general, support roles below the steerage of a senior group of workers and were now not coaching posts.The two Dundonald Primary School jobs are being mar...
















