20% of secondary schools say they've had to drop subjects because there's no one to teach them.
The Teachers' Union of Ireland's latest survey has found 93 per cent of schools have experienced teacher recruitment difficulties in the last 6 months.
There are currently 14 vacant posts for secondary school teachers in Cork.
Last April, then Education Minister Norma Foley announced a new upskilling programme to get more Irish teachers, with similar schemes in maths, physics and Spanish.
Michael Gillespie from the TUI says the programmes don't work because no one has the time to attend them:
"Workload in second level, schools, which is also part of the recruitment and retention crisis has got so hard and so demanding that schools are extraordinarily busy places with so much going on that they don't have time to do these courses to retrain and upskill."
