Teaching council rules on social media contact with students

Any inappropriate use of Facebook, Twitter, or text messaging with students could land teachers in trouble under new rules governing the profession.

The Teaching Council does not yet have powers to remove a teacher’s licence to work for breaches of its code of professional conduct.

However, it should be able to do so from early next year when Education Minister Ruairi Quinn gives effect to part of the law under which it was set up in 2006.