About Us - Navan Education Centre
OUR MOTTO: "Serve, Sustain and Strengthen the Education Community."
Navan Education Centre - one of 21 such full-time Centres throughout the country - provides support for teachers, schools, principals, Boards of Management and allied school personnel in counties Meath and Louth. The region has approximately 214 schools, both primary and post primary. Navan also gives professional ICT support to the schools and teachers of Co Cavan. In total we support over 4,000 teachers and allied school personnel.
Staff
Director
Dr Éadaoin McGovern
Centre Co-Ordinator
Joan Shankey
Finance
Pauline Connolly - Accounts Administrator
Sharon Gavillet - Accounts Administrator
With a financial background spanning 25 years, I joined Navan Education and Support Centre in 2013. During my time here, I provided support services to PDST, JCT and also worked within the National Behaviour Support Service. My current role is as an Accounts Administrator and I am the Support Administrator to the French Teacher Association TPN and the Transition Year TPN.
Local Courses
Breda Johnson
I have over 20 year’s experience working in Navan Education & Support Centre. I am the administrator for Local courses for primary and post primary schools (Spring, Summer & Autumn) in Meath and Louth.
I administer Local Projects for primary and post primary schools in Meath and Louth. As the administrator for NIPT (National Induction Programme for Teachers) covering Meath and Louth for many years, I am responsible for administering the Induction Workshop Programme (IWP) for newly qualified primary and post-primary teachers (NQTs).
I also look after the NIPT Droichead cluster meetings and Droichead training for primary and post primary NQT’s and schools in Meath and Louth.
PDST
Esther Herlihy
I provide administrative support for the Professional Development Service for Teachers (PDST) for the following National Programmes and Subject areas: Leaving Certificate Vocational Programme (LCVP), Transition Year (TY), Accounting, Economics, Business, Modern Foreign Languages, Home Economics and Young Economist of the Year (YEOTY).
I have worked within the Navan Education Support Centre for over 20 years. In collaboration with PDST Team Leaders Sharon Kiely, (LCVP, Business suite of subjects and YEOTY) Stephen Gammell (TY) and Mona Metcalfe (MFL and HE) we provide professional development and support for teachers and schools.
Support Services
Trish McCafferty
I am the Support Services Administrator for Navan Education & Support Centre and am responsible for National Programmes, including PDST Primary & Post Primary, JCT Seminars & Clusters and NCSE. I have worked in Administration & Accounts for most of my adult life, however, the two years that I have become a part of the NESC team have been my most enjoyable to date.
Reception
Aoife Gargan
Aoife is a Receptionist and Administrator with the Centre. She has worked in various departments within the Education Support Centre since starting in 2006 and has a wide knowledge of the educational sector.
Services
Brendan Daly
Jim Brannelly
Other Personnel based in the Centre
- NCCA – Patrick Sullivan
- NCCA - Dónal Ó Buachalla
- NCSE - Dervla Mulligan
- NCSE - Maureen Smith
In 1974 the Teachers’ Centre moved to St. Anne’s Loreto Convent. This was its home up until 1989 when St. Anne’s closed and the entire convent along with the Loreto Sisters moved to St. Michael’s in Athlumney. From then until December 2000, the centre was accommodated in a wing of the convent. In 1997 the Department of Education and Science announced that the centre in Navan was to be accorded full time status. The search was now on for a site for a new building. Having considered a number of options, the present site on the corner of the Loreto grounds was chosen. Construction of the new centre began in November 1999. One year later the building was complete and the links with Loreto now entered a new phase.
