Responsibility for the administration and management of vocational education colleges is a function of vocational education committees.
Guidelines issued by my Department provide for the establishment by vocational education committees of boards of management for schools in their schemes. The guidelines provide that boards should be comprised of four members of the vocational education committee and two parents, one of whom shall be a mother, of children receiving education in the school.
In relation to selection boards, the agreed selection procedures for the appointment and promotion of teachers in vocational schools specify that there shall be gender representation and in the case of five person boards every effort should be made to have at least two of each gender on the board.