Sir, - As a member of the Teachers' Union Of Ireland, I would like to express publicly my appreciation of the improvements made to the benchmarking process by ASTI members, which they elicited through their industrial action in the present secondary teachers' campaign.
These have benefited not only ASTI members, but TUI and INTO members as well. I, like many people, am very aware of the sacrifice and difficulties all ASTI members have experienced during these last weeks in pursuing their demands and wish them well in their future efforts. - Yours, etc.,
Ute Hoefersoden, Wyattville Park, Loughlinstown, Co Dublin.