Teaching Council to reduce renewal fee.

gaeilgebeo

Annual renewal fee to be reduced to €65.00
The Council has decided to ask the Minister to approve a reduction in the annual registration renewal fee from €90.00 to €65.00 with effect from 01 January 2013. All teachers whose registration falls due for renewal from January 2013 should benefit from this reduction. For those whose registration falls due for renewal during 2012, the existing €90 fee will continue to apply. The reduced fee will continue to attract a tax credit.

At long last. This reduction is long overdue.

dambarude

Seanscéal ag an bpointe seo! Just a pity it didn't happen for this year.

sitstill

dambarude wrote: »

Seanscéal ag an bpointe seo!.

What does this mean?

dambarude

sitstill wrote: »

What does this mean?

An old story at this stage... It was reported a few months ago.

I got my first e-newsletter from the TC today ... shows how little they do when the only piece of news in it was a rehash of news they made a fanfare about already a few months ago.

RealJohn

It's a start I suppose. It would be nice if they actually did something obvious besides charge ridiculous fees to have qualifications assessed though, like contributing to the cost of upskilling (wasn't that something it was claimed they'd do?) or some other meaningful use of our money.

People still ag streachailt with google translate too it seems. Maybe the TC should run a course.

sitstill

RealJohn wrote: »

People still ag streachailt with google translate too it seems. Maybe the TC should run a course.

Was this a gibe at me because I asked what the sentence in Irish above meant? I don't speak Irish. So what.

The forum charter says "Posting in Irish or other languages is fine, however you should post a translation to English if you are going to do so. Posts that are not translated to English will be deleted." So technically that should have been translated so people reading the board don't have to do it themselves.

seavill

Jesus RealJohn give it a rest

rainbowtrout

gaeilgebeo wrote: »

Annual renewal fee to be reduced to €65.00
The Council has decided to ask the Minister to approve a reduction in the annual registration renewal fee from €90.00 to €65.00 with effect from 01 January 2013. All teachers whose registration falls due for renewal from January 2013 should benefit from this reduction. For those whose registration falls due for renewal during 2012, the existing €90 fee will continue to apply. The reduced fee will continue to attract a tax credit.

At long last. This reduction is long overdue.

I thought this was decided last year? Or earlier this year?

endacl

Cool. any clarification yet as to what the teaching council is actually for.....?

rainbowtrout

RealJohn wrote: »

People still ag streachailt with google translate too it seems. Maybe the TC should run a course.

We get it, you can speak Irish, can we not have the posting in Irish on boards debate in every bloody thread in T&L?????

dory

rainbowtrout wrote: »

I thought this was decided last year? Or earlier this year?

It was, but they needed to fill some column inches on a newsletter so back it goes to the frontpage! :rolleyes:

gaeilgebeo

rainbowtrout wrote: »

gaeilgebeo wrote: »

Annual renewal fee to be reduced to €65.00
The Council has decided to ask the Minister to approve a reduction in the annual registration renewal fee from €90.00 to €65.00 with effect from 01 January 2013. All teachers whose registration falls due for renewal from January 2013 should benefit from this reduction. For those whose registration falls due for renewal during 2012, the existing €90 fee will continue to apply. The reduced fee will continue to attract a tax credit.

At long last. This reduction is long overdue.

I thought this was decided last year? Or earlier this year?

Apologies so. Our rep announced it today at breaktime, much to our delight. :-) I can request the thread be locked accordingly.

seavill

Yea it was decided earlier in the year and partly announced then also.

They have sent out an email with their newsletter this week and it mentions the reduced price.

It has always been intended to start in Jan. unfortunately mine is due to be paid in November, sickened isn't even the word

Inspector Coptoor

The TC do nothing worth talking about.

Such a quango.

I'm a privately paid teacher just starting in a new school. Need to get allowances, point in scale etc sorted with school bursar etc.

TC won't tell the school about my qualifications, even though they are my employer, saying they only discuss things like that with the member etc.
They communicate well enough with the DES if people don't pay their membership.

I'm probably going to end up paying for transcripts from my old universities just to get paid the correct amount.

Why am I paying them for membership & to "recognize" my qualifications if they can't perform a simple function like this?

dambarude

They seem to want to have everything to do with teaching, but at the same time nothing. If they could only be a bit more useful, people wouldn't begrudge their registration fee as much.

implausible

dambarude wrote: »

They seem to want to have everything to do with teaching, but at the same time nothing. If they could only be a bit more useful, people wouldn't begrudge their registration fee as much.

True dat...

I suppose I can understand the fee being higher for the first few "set-up" years, but €90 was bordering on extortionate, considering what they were charging to assess people's varying qualifications and the problems created by whatever fee they charge the colleges to approve courses leading to teaching.

rainbowtrout

implausible wrote: »

True dat...

I suppose I can understand the fee being higher for the first few "set-up" years, but €90 was bordering on extortionate, considering what they were charging to assess people's varying qualifications and the problems created by whatever fee they charge the colleges to approve courses leading to teaching.

It's all that shiny paper they print everything on......

I notice when you pay the fee online the card comes through the letterbox within 24 hours. Unreal turnaround time. I suspect someone is being paid in the TC to sit at a computer and press F5 all day waiting for registrations to come through that they can print off.

mtoutlemonde

rainbowtrout wrote: »

It's all that shiny paper they print everything on......

I notice when you pay the fee online the card comes through the letterbox within 24 hours. Unreal turnaround time. I suspect someone is being paid in the TC to sit at a computer and press F5 all day waiting for registrations to come through that they can print off.

I hope that person has a degree on the 'recognised list of degree programmes' but I think the most of them are trained monkeys so he/she might be ok.

derb12

I didn't know this. Thanks. Unfortunately my reg renewal date is Dec, so I won't benefit till next year.
I got a letter from them yesterday about a qualifications check. Nothing earth shatteringly important, but it came by registered mail and it was printed on heavy quality paper - almost card. A shameless waste of money. On my online profile I have checked the "contact me by email" box many times, but I keep getting these wasteful letters from them. They are a disgrace.