If you have completed a Student Consent Form, your contact and qualification details will be transferred from your college or university to the Teaching Council. You will then be issued with a NQT Application Form for Registration as a Teacher. Please complete this form at your earliest opportunity and return it to the Teaching Council with the appropriate documentation. You must also ensure that you have completed the Garda vetting process.

It will be stated on the NQT Application Form for Registration as a Teacher if you are required to provide transcripts. Typically, if you have completed a programme other than a Bachelor of Education or a four-year concurrent programme of teacher education, you need to submit transcripts. The Council will accept the website address and login details where your academic records can be verified online (e.g. Digitary). Please note that there is often a delay during summer months in obtaining transcripts from colleges or universities and it is advised that you have the transcripts of each year of your undergraduate degree qualification to hand prior to completing your NQT Application Form for Registration as a Teacher.

The Department of Education and Skills or Vocational Education Committee (VEC) require documentary evidence that you are registered with the Teaching Council. You should be registered and have documentary proof of both your registration and Garda vetting when seeking a teaching position. Further details on teacher recruitment, registration and qualifications are provided in the Department of Education and Skills Circular 0031/2011.

Typically, Garda vetting can take between 8 and 12 weeks from the receipt of a correctly completed Garda Vetting Application Form. If a form is incorrectly completed, it will be returned to the applicant for correction. This will delay the Garda vetting process.

No. Garda vetting is a requirement of registration. A teacher will not be registered without completion of Garda vetting. For registration purposes newly qualified teachers must apply for Garda vetting via the Teaching Council.

Please send the completed form to: Vetting Section, The Teaching Council, Block A, Maynooth Business Campus, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland.

Yes. All addresses where you resided for more than three months must be included on your Garda Vetting Application Form.

The Teaching Council will send you a letter with the outcome of the vetting process. Please keep this letter safe as it will be required by potential employer(s) when offering you a teaching position. This letter is issued in accordance with the Department of Education and Skills Circular 0063/2010.

Yes. The registration fee is €90. The current annual renewal fee is €90.

You will receive a letter confirming your registration.

If your details are not transferred to the Teaching Council in the summer months due to incomplete results or where supplemental (repeat) exams are necessary, you will be required to download a standard application form for registration from www.teachingcouncil.ie. You may submit this form once you have completed any supplemental examinations successfully. At that time, all your qualification transcripts and your Birth Certificate will be required.

Contact the Teaching Council with your registration number to check if you will be required to do anything further to update your registration record. Please inform us that you are currently undertaking a teacher education qualification.