GMIT REJECTS PROPOSAL TO END TEACHER TRAINING AT LETTERFRACK CAMPUS

Date Published: 06-Sep-2012

GMIT officials have voiced their disappointment at recommendations to dissolve the teacher-training course at their Connemara campus.

Head of Department at the Letterfrack facility - Dermot O'Donovan - is rejecting proposals to discontinue the Post Graduate Diploma in Arts in Education Technology and says it will have a serious impact on the local economy.

A report on the education of teachers in Ireland is suggesting that 19 teacher-training facilities be reduced to six to train teachers in an environment where there is a "culture of research".

These proposals also include a merger of NUI Galway and St Angelas College Sligo.

The student population at the Letterfrack campus currently stands at 240 and Mr O'Donovan says a quarter comprises the teacher-training course.