Dr. Lynn Ramsey:

That course was the sole course recognised under route 4. It was part of the grandparenting aspect that happened when the Teaching Council was set up. The stepdown of that course had been well flagged in legislation but it happened in parallel with all the developments in the evolving Céim standards and, in particular, among the seven pillars within Céim, the pillar relating to inclusive education. It is about understanding that inclusive education would imbue all aspects of undergraduate and postgraduate, or PME, teacher education. All teachers in Ireland are now equipped, under these new provisions, to lead in diverse settings and diverse groups of learners, and those two developments happened in parallel.