The formal establishment of the new Teaching Council yesterday is a welcome, if overdue, development. The council will regulate the teaching profession and the professional conduct of teachers; ...

More teachers will come under scrutiny from the Teaching Council under strengthened regulations signed into law this month. The council, which is the professional standards body for teachers, has ...

A school principal has been admonished for poor professional performance over his failure to notify the parents of a young autistic pupil of an allegation that their son had been mistreated by a ...

Erica Stanford recently unveiled the changes to the Education and Training (System Reform) Amendment Bill ...

The formal establishment this week of the Teaching Council, while overdue, is very welcome. It should help to enhance the status of the profession as Education Minister Mary Hanafin predicted at the ...