PostPrimaryCircular1902-ProgrammeCo-OrdinatorPosts-PDST.doc

Circular Letter PPT 19/02 To : The Chief Executive Officer of each Vocational Education Committee Programme Co-Ordinator Posts In Vocational Schools The Minister for Education and Science wishes to advise Vocational Education Committees that, following consultation with the interested parties, agreement has been reached on the following arrangements for posts of Programme Co-ordinator in vocational schools. Programme Co-ordinator Posts 1.1 A post of Co-ordinator will be established in each school offering any of the following programmes: Leaving Certificate Applied Programme Leaving Certificate Vocational Programme Transition Year Junior Certificate Schools Programme 1.2 The post will not form part of the normal cohort of school posts of responsibilities and will lapse when none of the programmes listed in 1.1 above is being provided by the school. 1.3 Selection for the post will be by way of special competition among the eligible teaching staff of the school. 1.4 Remuneration will be at the level of the allowance for a Special Duties Teacher Post of Responsibility in the case of schools with up to 100 pupils on these programmes and at the level of allowance for an Assistant Principal Post of Responsibility where the number of pupils is 100 or more. 1.5 Schools will arrange to provide a reduction in teaching hours to these post holders for co-ordination purposes from within the overall hours available to the school. The reduction in hours will be on the following basis No of Pupils Hours Reduction per week 2 3 4 140 6 The loss of teaching hours will be compensated by way of a concession in the allocation of the annual number of teaching hours to the school. In the event that the number of pupils falls below 100 pupils where the Programme Co-ordinator had previously been in receipt of an allowance at AP level, the co-ordinator will continue to hold the AP level allowance but will have the red