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Teacher Council Registration for new Teachers

  • 09-06-2010 9:50pm
    #1
    EoghanRua
    Closed Accounts Posts: 134 ✭✭


    As the title of the thread suggests I am looking at the process of registration with the TC for new teachers/recent graduates. Part of the process is that the University sends on details of graduate teachers to the TC and there is Garda vetting etc. which apparently takes about three months at the moment.

    The upshot of this it seems to me is that this is not a process that will be over before September/October at the earliest, but according to the Teaching Council one cannot take a job without being registered with them first and one or two schools I have applied to have asked for such information on their application forms.

    Does anyone know how this works in practice? It if works in practice like it works in theory then I cannot see how any PGDE graduate of 2009/10 could be in a position to apply for a job for teaching in 2010/11. It seems nuts that they make it so slow and labour intensive to register with them yet use registration as a block in relation to work.

    It is also annoying that when they are getting information from the college they cannot also get the information regarding the Garda vetting that the college did at the time to at least get the process of registration moving.


Comments

  • #2
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    As far as I can remember the TC allow a month or so after school starts for new teachers to register. That's what we were told when the TC visited the PGDE students. I was not registered when I was offered my job but I was registered just in time for the start of term. I think there is a little bit of leeway given. It's a silly system.


  • #3
    gaeilgegrinds1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,071 ✭✭✭gaeilgegrinds1


    Last years Dips (09-10) in Galway started the process shortly after Christmas and only the one who plagued them daily with emails and calls got hers in time for work.


  • #4
    Miss Lockhart
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭Miss Lockhart


    I will (hopefully) be getting my TC registration status updated once NUIM release their PGDE results. I'm already registered for VEC sector, so I won't have to undergo the vetting process etc again.

    However, I have to say that despite countless bad experiences with the TC, they took less than 6 weeks (inc. Christmas holidays) to register me and that included assessing my degree as it was not on the autoquals list.


  • #5
    gagiteebo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 524 ✭✭✭gagiteebo


    I have serious issues with the TC. They do absolutely nothing to help us as teachers and yet we are expected to pay them 90 euro for this!

    This will be my 3rd year as a qualified teacher but just today I found out that the TC 'lost' all my details and I have to re-register. I am absolutely fuming as this means I have to go through the whole process all over again due to their inadequacies as an organisation and I use the term loosely!

    Back to your original question, in my first year it was December before my reg came through and I had no problem teaching, I just wasn't being paid at the qualified rate but once it came through I sent it on to payroll and I got back pay. Most schools are very understanding about the whole process in my experience.


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