Hanafin offers to facilitate resolution at teacher college

EDUCATION Minister Mary Hanafin has offered to facilitate a resolution to difficulties at Marino Institute of Education (MIE) despite a report from its trustees criticising her department.

The report of Farrell Grant Sparks, published on Monday, said the intervention of the Department of Education to help set up interim management structures only served to compound difficulties which arose after the departure of Caoimhe Máirtín as president of its teacher training college, Coláiste Mhuire Marino (CMM), last summer, after she claimed she was bullied.

Ms Hanafin said last night that she was concerned that strained relations are continuing at Marino.