by admin | Feb 22, 2016 | Teaching News
Voting for the election of teachers to the Teaching Council opened today, Monday, 22 February and will close at noon on Wednesday, 9 March. The election is to fill the places of 16 teachers on the 37-member Teaching Council, whose current term of office comes to an...
by admin | Apr 15, 2015 | Guest Post
In his recent column on the ways in which teaching can change people’s lives, David McWilliams describes the wonderful impact that teachers have in leading learning – “It is a beautiful thing to see the weight of incomprehension being replaced by the freedom of...
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 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 | Oct 26, 2013 | Teaching News
Commencement of Section 30 of the Teaching Council Act 2001 has been delayed yet again, this time by another three months. Section 30 prohibits the Department of Education and Skills (DES) from paying any person who is employed as a teacher in a school unless he/she...
