Michael McCarthy (Cork South West, Labour)
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To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline in tabular form the number of students per country who are currently attending teacher training colleges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54630/12]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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The number of students currently enrolled in each of the five state funded primary colleges of education are set out in the attached table. The statistics are not available centrally by county. Hibernia College is a private provider of initial teacher education and provides a part-time online post graduate course. The College has two intakes per year in October and March. The average number of graduates is 650 per annum.