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Standing Conference on Teacher Education, North and South (SCoTENS)
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The Centre acts as the secretariat for the Standing Conference on Teacher Education, North and South. This was set up in early 2003 by a group of senior teacher education specialists from colleges of education and other teacher education agencies in both jurisdictions. The joint chairs of SCoTENS are Professor John Coolahan, Professor of Education at National University of Ireland Maynooth and Professor Richard McMinn from Stranmillis University College.

SCoTENS provides funding for all-island conferences on social, scientific and environmental education, initial teacher education, citizenship education and special educational needs; and for North/South research projects on continuing professional development and profound and multiple learning difficulties.

The SCoTENS website [scotens.org], overseen by Dr Roger Austin of the University of Ulster, has been set up highlighting, in particular, resources on Special Education Needs and Citizenship.

SCoTENS is funded by annual grants from the Department of Education and Science and the Department of Education (Northern Ireland) and the Department for Employment and Learning.

Conferences

Date Venue Title
15-16 October 2009 Grand Hotel, Malahide Reflective Practice: Challenges for Teacher Development
9-10 October 2008 Wellington Park Hotel, Belfast School Leadership, Policy and Practice, North and South
22-23 November 2007 Grand Hotel, Malahide Teaching in the Knowledge Society
12-13 October 2006 Ramada Hotel Belfast Teacher Education and Schools: Together Towards Improvement
10-11 November 2005 Grand Hotel, Malahide Teacher Education for Citizenship in Culturally Diverse Societies
11-12 November 2004 Armagh City Hotel The changing contexts of teacher education, North and South
9-10 October 2003 Grand Hotel, Malahide Challenges to teacher education and research North and South

See the SCoTENS website.