PGCE and the teaching council

NoelleTh

Hi all,
I am currently doing a History and Irish Medium Education PGCE in University of Ulster I was just wondering how do i go about registering with the teaching council? Is there a different process for NQTs with a PGCE?
Any help or advice would be great!

Postgrad10

Hi Noelleth,
I am currently finishing up my PGDE in the south. The teaching council came out to lectures to give us the information. We had to fill in a form on the spot for our course department to allow them to transfer our results automatically to the teaching council. We also had to complete garda vetting form now as it takes so long to come through. When they have our results in summer, we will get the official form sent out and we have to send it back with copies of our undergrad grades for them to assess our degree.

Firstly check your degree complies with A and B on this link
http://www.pac.ie/pgdeinfo/subjects.php?inst=pe

Then go to http://www.teachingcouncil.ie/home/default.asp?NCID=1

Everything you need to know should be there. I'm interested in registering with the gtcni . On their application, I have to submit my Irish council recognition and then apply.

I hope I've helped

NoelleTh

You really have thanks! All this paperwork is rubbish!

peanuthead

Noelle

If you have a degree from the UK or Ulster there are a few things you need to do in order to be fully qualified and recognised here in Ireland.

1. You must get your parchment 'translated'. To do this they will first assess whether or not your course is recognised here. That will be down to a number of things, the most common being the distribution of hours in your degree amongst your two or more subjects. This can cost anywhere from €200 on. AFAIK you have to pay the money before even finding out if your degree is recognised.

2. You must sit an exam on the history of the Irish Education System. This exam takes place in about 2 months or so, and lectures for it have already started, so I suppose you would be looking at next year before you could do that.

The main issue with this is pay to be honest. Until all of this is done you can still be employed (technically you can't but these things happen) but it will be A LOT harder to find a job if you fine one at all without a TC number. You will also get the unqualified rate until you are registered. However, this money is backdated.

NoelleTh

I did my degree in Maynooth, Irish and History and on the TC website it's regonised so I assume this means that I don't need to pay the €200 recognition fee for that?

It's more how I go about getting my PGCE recognised that I wanted to know and how I register for the exam on the History of the Education system?Has anyone done this exam, is it difficult?

This year has been such an expensive one I want to get working as soon as possible when I'm qualified don't want anything holding me up! I know getting a job isn't going to be easy in any stretch of the imagination but I want to actually be employable when I go looking for one!

dory

NoelleTh wrote: »

I did my degree in Maynooth, Irish and History and on the TC website it's regonised so I assume this means that I don't need to pay the €200 recognition fee for that?

It's a fee to pay them to go check if your degree is ok. And yours is so no need to pay that.

History is fairly in demand from what I've heard, in the UK. So if you go there you should be ok. It's in Ireland it's so hard to get a job.

NoelleTh

Ah, well Irish isn't really in demand(!) and that is my first love and really my dream is to teach in an Irish medium setting so I'll be holding out in Ireland as long as I can! At least I know its always an option...