General Teaching Council Northern Ireland

Council Membership

Mr Ivan Arbuthnot (Council Chair)
 

The Council membership comprises:

• 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

• Sharon Beattie

Special School representative

• Colm Davis

Primary School representatives

• Brian Carlin
• Carney Cumper
• Sandra Douglas
• Gillian Garrett
• Mary Leonard

Secondary School representatives

• Graham Agnew
• Theo Laverty
• Paddy Linden
• Ciara McKay
• Rosemary Barton

 Primary School Principal

• Brian Jess 

Secondary School Principal

• Ivan Arbuthnot

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Appointed Members

Northern Ireland Teachers' Council

• Stephen Moore
• Gillian Scott
• Teresa Graham
• John Pollock
• Daisy Mules

Association of Education and Library Boards

• vacant

Council for Catholic Maintained Schools

• John Colgan
• Eugene O'Neill

Comhairle na Gaelscolaiochta

• Aine Andrews

Governing Bodies Association

• Sheila Crea 

Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education

• Frances Donnelly

Transferor Representatives' Council

•  Rosemary Rainey

Trustees of Catholic Maintained Schools

• Elizabeth McNeice

Universities Council for the Education of Teachers

• Audrey Curry

Department of Education

• pending

 

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