by admin | Mar 27, 2013 | Teaching News
Through the course of a conversation with educators on Twitter on Tuesday night, I was amazed to discover that if people belong to different organisations through which they come into contact with children or vulnerable adults, they must get separate Garda vetting for...
by admin | Mar 22, 2013 | Teaching News
Tomás Ó Ruairc, Director of the Teaching Council, yesterday delivered a presentation to the annual Conference of the Inspectorate entitled “The Role of the Teaching Council in Ensuring Quality of Teaching in Schools”. In a wide-ranging presentation Tomás...
by admin | Jan 30, 2013 | Teaching News
In June 2011, the Teaching Council published Initial Teacher Education: Criteria and Guidelines for Programme Providers. That document noted the Council’s intention to initiate a consultation process in relation to revised minimum entry requirements for entry...
by admin | Jan 13, 2013 | Teaching News
For those teachers whose renewal of registration with the Teaching Council is due in January 2013, the good news is that the registration fee has been reduced from €90 to €65, a reduction of €25 or 28%. This fee reduction only applies to those registrations which fall...
by admin | Nov 13, 2012 | Teaching News, Video
The Teaching Council has just released its first video to promote the role and work of the Council for teachers. In a Guest Post with Seomra Ranga last month, the Director of the Teaching Council, Tomás O’ Ruairc, promised that: “The Teaching Council is...
