Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 17 July 2025
Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community
Traveller Participation in Education: Department of Education and Youth
2:00 am
Ms GrĂ¡inne Cullen:
There are probably about three different strands to that, as I see it. There is the initial teacher education piece and then there is the teacher professional learning, when someone is in service, and there is then the curriculum itself. We are going at that at all three levels. In terms of initial teacher education, the Teaching Council has done a review of its Céim, which is its standards for initial teacher education. A core element of that is on diversity and inclusion. It has a number of examples of higher education institutions which are leading out. There is one called Tobar. I am not sure if the Senator is familiar with it.
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