by admin | Jan 4, 2014 | Teaching News
The Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn, plans to shortly amend legislation to give extra powers to the Teaching Council to deal with what is referred to as “poor and under-performing teachers”. At present, a teacher has to be deemed “unfit to...
by admin | Jan 4, 2014 | Teaching News
Two teachers or five SNAs – that could be one of the choices facing principals in the future if proposals by Public Spending Minister, Brendan Howlin ever come to fruition. It seems that the minister has plans to devolve funding to schools themselves and allow...
by admin | Jan 2, 2014 | Teaching News
Section 30 of the Teaching Council Act 2011 will finally come into effect on January 28th this year. After many delays, Minister Ruairí Quinn finally signed the commencement order for this part of the Act on November 1st 2013, meaning that Section 30 is legally...
by admin | Dec 28, 2013 | Teaching News
Now into its seventh year, Seomra Ranga has attempted to keep teachers up to date throughout the year with issues pertaining to the world of education in Ireland, with a special emphasis on primary education. The following is a month-by-month summary of some of the...
by admin | Dec 28, 2013 | Teaching News
The Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn, has announced an allocation of €15 million towards the next phase of the Prefab Replacement Scheme for 2014. It is estimated that over 2,600 pupils in primary and second level schools around the country will move...
by admin | Dec 7, 2013 | Teaching News, Technology
It’s the tenth anniversary of the international Edublog Awards and, apart from Seomra Ranga (which has been nominated in three different categories), Irish blogs feature in the nominations for many of the categories. I’m delighted that many of the Seomra...
