Articles tagged with: Co Monaghan Vocational Education Committee

Further significant developments for education and training in Co Monaghan were confirmed at the final meeting of Co Monaghan Vocational Education Committee on Monday. VECs formally cease to function as statutory education authorities on July 1, the date set by Minister for Education and Skills Ruairi Quinn as the establishment day for the new Cavan Monaghan Education and Training Board and the 15 other similar bodies that will replace the existing structures. Aside from the reflection and looking forward appropriate to what Chairperson Joe McGrath described as an ...

The challenges and opportunities presented by a period of radical change in the education system were looked forward to by teachers’ union representative Joe McGrath when he was elected the new Chairperson of Co Monaghan Vocational Education Committee on Monday. Mr McGrath, who was outgoing Vice-Chairperson of the body, pledged to work with his colleagues to make the transition to the new Monaghan/Cavan Education and Training Board structure a success and to assist in the successful coming into being later this month of the VEC’s new Education Campus project at Knockaconny. ...

Co Monaghan Vocational Education Committee on Monday supported a proposal from Sinn Féin’s Sean Conlon, seconded by his party colleague Pat Treanor, calling on the Dept of Education to reverse a Budget provision for a 3% reduction in the income threshold for qualification for third level college grants. The VEC at its monthly meeting received a comprehensive overview of the implications of last week’s Budget 2013 for the education sector and debated both its favourable and adverse features at some length. At the outset a document was circulated ...