City VEC boss set to keep job after reshuffle

The head of City of Cork Vocational Education Committee says he looks forward to continuing in the role after changes to a planned reshuffle of VEC chiefs nationally.

The chief executive of Clare VEC, George O’Callaghan, was named in the summer as the designate boss of the new Cork Education and Training Board (ETB), to be formed when Cork’s city and county VECs merge next year.

He was one of the serving CEOs to retain their titles when the 33 VECs are amalgamated to form 16 new ETBs, with the longest-serving given the first choice on which board they wished to head up. The changes are happening under law published recently by Education Minister Ruairi Quinn and likely to pass in early 2013.