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In brief...Nearly half of the teaching

Nearly half of the teaching principals in Catholic schools in Northern Ireland have been diagnosed as suffering from depression or stress, according to the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools. Its report, Key health and welfare issues for teaching principals, said that two-thirds of teaching principals want to leave their jobs because of stress and their 'intolerable workload'. Two-thirds of primary and nursery heads in the Province are teaching principals.

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