Mary Immaculate College has launched a campaign to encourage boys to take up the profession
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Mary Immaculate College has launched a campaign to encourage boys to consider teaching as a profession.
The General Secretary of Education and Training Boards Ireland has welcomed the campaign as a positive move.
Paddy Lavelle cites the fact that boys are being taught by women as a reason for them not opting for a classroom:
"They recognise that most of the teachers they've had in primary school, for example, are female at the moment and that's just the situation we're in. They don't see themselves in the teachers that taught them and that's something that we need to correct.
He added, "It's a universal problem, it's not just in Ireland that this is happening. But it is a very important part of how you make something attractive to boys or to anybody."
