VEC job application

Tartopher

HI there,
I hope someone can help me.
I am applying for a Pro-rata job in a vec and i've been told that I must be registered with the TC in order to be eligible for the post. Is this true?
I have taught in VECs on TPT contracts and this has never been an issue. I am qualified, I just did it in England.
Will this disqualify me from applying?

thanks!

gaeilgegrinds1

If it says you must be registered then you must be registered. Things have tightened up a lot lately. Why don't you apply to register and get provisional recognition?

TheDriver

being honest, if someone looking for a job won't/isn't registered for no good reason (i.e. in process of applying etc) then its a red flag for me. Commitment to the profession and all that.

implausible

Tartopher wrote: »

I am applying for a Pro-rata job in a vec and i've been told that I must be registered with the TC in order to be eligible for the post. Is this true?

Yes.

How are you not registered already? The TC has been running since 2006

Further Ed.

All posts and appointments in VECs are subject to the sanction of the Department of Education and Science. Qualifications for the various positions are laid down by the Teaching Council. VEC schools and centres are managed differently than secondary and comprehensive schools but that does not mean their staff are exempt from the Teaching Council requirements and those of the Dept of Education and Skills. See Circular Letter 0040/2010 - Teacher Recruitment Registration Qualifications clearly outlines the position.

The Minister for Education and Skills, in accordance with the authority conferred by section 24 of the Education Act 1998, directs that school authorities, as employers, ensure that teachers proposed for appointment to teaching posts for which salary grant is being sought must be
1. Registered with the Teaching Council in accordance with Section 31 of the Teaching Council Act, 2001
And
2. Have qualifications appropriate to the sector and suitable to the post for which s/he is proposed
The following exceptions will apply
a) Where an employer can satisfactorily demonstrate that every reasonable effort has been made to recruit an appropriately qualified and registered teacher, an unqualified and/or unregistered person may be recruited pending the recruitment of an appropriately qualified and registered teacher and this provision must be inserted in the employment contract. The employer shall repeat the process to recruit an appropriately qualified and registered teacher within the period of any such contract and in any event within the school year. The person recruited will be remunerated at the unqualified rate.
b) In the case of an appointee who has applied to the Teaching Council, remuneration will be at the rate for unqualified persons pending the decision of the Council. This provision must be inserted in the employment contract. When registration for the sector and recognition of qualifications for the purpose of the post is achieved then incremental salary will be allowed from the date of registration. Otherwise the employer shall repeat the recruitment process within the school year.


That circular letter applies to all VEC centres including PLC/FE and Youthreach. The Teaching Council are now regulating the teaching qualification required for the teaching qualification for those teaching at FE level – see

http://www.teachingcouncil.ie/news/default.asp?NCID=13&NewsID=477

looksee

I know this answer is a bit 'I told you so', but we were given plenty of warning that we should join, especially if you had non-standard qualifications by the standards that now apply. If you did not join then you will have to join on the conditions that now exist.

Tartopher

Thanks for the helpful replies..
I only qualified a year ago and managed to get 9-10 hours a week on maternity cover. As I qualified in England the cost of registration is 300 euro which is lot after rent, loans etc.
I was told I didn't need it to teaching VECs so I was waiting until i could afford it to apply.
Anyway it's done now and the TC have confirmed that it's at the schools discretion at present so fingers crossed:)