Mary Immaculate College (MIC) was pleased to welcome Minister for Education and Youth, Hildegarde Naughton TD, on a recent visit to her alma mater this week.
During the visit, Minister Naughton met with Professor Dermot Nestor and Professor Emer Ring to discuss Special Education Teacher Training, among other key priorities. The Minister graduated from MIC in 2004 with a Graduate Diploma in Education (Primary Teaching).
On Wednesday 29 April, Minister Naughton and her colleague, Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, James Lawless TD, announced details of Ireland’s first tertiary degree pathway into primary teaching. Delivered by MIC in partnership with Tipperary Education and Training Board (TETB) and Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board (LCETB), the programme aims to diversify initial teacher education by supporting students from under-represented groups in higher education.
MIC is Ireland’s largest provider of Initial Teacher Education and a nationally distinctive centre of expertise in childhood studies, educational psychology and inclusive practice. As a leader in the provision of teacher education at both primary and post-level, MIC is not simply responding to change in teacher education; it is leading how the profession is formed, prepared and renewed.
