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Is the Dip paid or unpaid?

  • 18-06-2015 1:51pm
    #1
    rightofwayed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40 ✭


    Just looking for some clarification in anybody can help.

    I'm thinking of enrolling in the September intake of Hibernia to become a primary school teacher. It was my understanding that once I finish the 2 year course I then have to work a h-dip consisting of 600 hours paid work.

    Yesterday I was speaking to a NQT who told me that as of next year the 600 hour dip would be unpaid.

    Can anyone confirm if this is correct? As it was doing the course and teaching practice was a stretch financially but this news would make it unworkable for me.

    thanks


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  • #2
    RealJohn
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    I'm not a primary teacher so I don't know but that sounds like all kinds of wrong to me.
    First of all, I would have thought that the 'dip' is the teaching qualification (which is now a masters in the case of secondary teachers, not a diploma) and one you've qualified, you probably do have to do a certain amount of class time to be fully registered with the teaching council (as is the case for secondary teachers) but any post-qualification work as a teacher should be paid.

    I can't be sure that this is the case for primary teachers but the situation you've described definitely sounds wrong.


  • #3
    An Bradán Feasa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 405 ✭✭An Bradán Feasa


    rightofwayed wrote: »
    Just looking for some clarification in anybody can help.

    I'm thinking of enrolling in the September intake of Hibernia to become a primary school teacher. It was my understanding that once I finish the 2 year course I then have to work a h-dip consisting of 600 hours paid work.

    Yesterday I was speaking to a NQT who told me that as of next year the 600 hour dip would be unpaid.

    Can anyone confirm if this is correct? As it was doing the course and teaching practice was a stretch financially but this news would make it unworkable for me.

    thanks

    1. Pay Hibernia the money, complete the course and graduate with a Professional Master of Education.

    2. Register with the Teaching Council, you'll be registered under conditions that you complete all probationary and induction requirements within a certain timeframe. Any work you get should obviously be paid work. You'd be a qualified teacher, after all!

    3. After completing all conditions, you go from conditional registration with the TC to full registration.

    Probation used to be colloquially referred to as 'the dip' (I'm not sure why) and still is to an extent, but it is most definitely not any sort of diploma or additional qualification. It's a probationary period at the beginning of your professional career.


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