Vocational Schools
Teachers in Vocational Schools may be required to teach up to a maximum of 22 hours. 

In the case of a teacher in an Assistant Principal post of responsibility the number of class contact hours are 18 per week.  The number of class contact hours of a teacher in a post of responsibility of Special Duties Teacher are in the range 21-22 hours per week.  Actual teaching hours for Principals and Deputy Principals are set out in a schedule in CL 58/98.

TUI policy on travelling time is that where a wholetime teacher is asked to travel between 2 or more centres, the amount of time travelling, together with class contact hours must not exceed 22 hours per week.

Community & Comprehensive Schools
Teachers in Community and Comprehensive Schools may be required to teach up to 22 hours.  The hours and conditions for Assistant Principal postholders, Principals and Deputy-Principals in Community and Comprehensive Schools are as for those in Vocational Schools.

Institutes of Technology
At 3rd level an AL lectures a norm of 18 hours per week which may be varied from 16 to 20 in consultation with the lecturer.  For L and SL grades they lecture a norm of 16 hours per week which may be varied from 14 to 18 in consultation with the lecturer.  A weighting of hours to apply to hours worked after 6.00 p.m. The weighting to be 1.5.  When an AL, L. SL is supervising a Tutor/Demonstrator a reduction in teaching hours will be applied on the basis of one hour reduction per three hours demonstration/tutorials supervised.

A lecturer should be consulted prior to being given a timetable which deviates from the norm.  If there is a suggestion that the lecturer might have a timetable which exceeds the norm for a period of the academic year the lecturer should get a firm commitment indicating when the commensurate period of time would commence when the timetable would fall below the norm.