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 ...

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 ...