Minister Cannon launches the Standing Conference on Teacher Education North and South (SCoTENS): Ninth Annual Conference: - Promoting Literacy and Numeracy through teacher education [education.ie]
- Published: 29 September 2011
The Minister of State for Training and Skills, Ciarán Cannon, T.D., today launched the Annual Conference of SCoTENS (the Standing Conference on Teacher Education, North and South) at the Radisson Blu Farnham Estate Hotel, Co. Cavan.
The keynote speakers were Professor Terezinha Nunes, Professor of Educational Studies at University of Oxford, Professor Sir Bob Salisbury, formerly of the School of Education, University of Nottingham and Dr Harold Hislop, Chief Inspector at the Department of Education and Skills.
Describing SCoTENS as "a most important bridge between those involved in teacher education, north and south," Minister Cannon noted the wide scope of the organisation's activities: "SCoTENS has supported 71 educational projects since its inception, across a very broad range of teacher-education topics, and there have been 17 significant reports published in a short timeframe."
The Minister welcomed the conference's focus on literacy and numeracy, saying that "a major issue facing both of our systems, north and south, is the need to improve standards in literacy and numeracy."
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