General Teaching Council Northern Ireland

Council Membership

Council Chairperson Mrs Sally McKee
 

The Council has 33 members comprising:

• 14 elected teachers;
• 5 teachers appointed by the Northern Ireland Teachers' Council;
• 10 appointments by various representative bodies with a stakehold in education; and
• 4 appointments by the Department of Education of whom one will be representative of industry and commerce and 3 will reflect the wider public interest.

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Elected Members

Nursery School representative-

• Mrs Susan Campbell

Special School representative

• Mrs Sally McKee

Primary School representatives

• Mr Charles Glenn
• Mr John Kerr
• Mr John McGrady
• Ms Daisy Mules
• Mrs Thea Patton

Secondary School representatives

• Mr Rosemary Barton
• Mrs Teresa Graham
• Dr Theo Laverty
• Mr Keith Smith
• Mr Damian Walls

Primary School Principal

• Mrs Audrey Stewart

Secondary School Principal

• Mr Ivan Arbuthnot

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Appointed Members

Northern Ireland Teachers' Council

• Mr Malachy Doherty
• Mr Tony Lappin
• Mr Alistair Orr
• Mr John Pollock
• Mr Peter Scott

Association of Education and Library Boards

• Mr Gordon Topping
• Mr Gary Haire

Council for Catholic Maintained Schools

• Mr John Colgan

Comhairle na Gaelscolaiochta

• Mrs Aine Andrews

Governing Bodies Association

• Mr Ronnie Hassard

Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education

• Mrs Frances Donnelly

Transferor Representatives' Council

•  Miss Rosemary Rainey

Trustees of Catholic Maintained Schools

• Mr Joe Corrigan

Universities Council for the Education of Teachers

• Dr Leslie Caul

Department of Education

• Mrs Miriam Karp
• Mr Dorothy Black
• Mr Brendan McConville
• Dr Jennifer Cornyn