Under the Teaching Council Acts 2001-2015 the Teaching Council is the body with statutory authority and responsibility for the regulation of the teaching profession in Ireland including the registration of teachers in the State.
The figures provided by the Council in the table detail the number of newly qualified primary teachers from the institution referring to by the Deputy from 2014-2020.
All of these teachers were registered on the basis of a postgraduate qualification primary teaching qualification (Higher Diploma in Arts in primary Education / Professional Masters in Education). The institution referred to by the Deputy did not and do not offer a Bachelor of Education concurrent qualification.
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2014
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2015
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2016
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2017
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2018
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2019
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2020
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Total Registered
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521
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591
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677
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558
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627
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577
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672
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4223
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The Teaching Council inform me there are a number of caveats to this data, namely:
- These numbers relate to newly qualified teachers (NQTs) who registered with the Council using the fast-track NQT registration process. Primary Teachers who registered outside this process are not counted.
- The number for 2014 is an approximate.
