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Primary Education graduate, Robyn McCarthy, from Clonmel, had double cause for celebration after achieving ‘top of her class’ status at the annual Hibernia College conferring ceremony which was held at Dublin’s Convention Centre recently.
In addition to receiving her Masters qualification, Robyn was honoured with the INTO Vere Foster Medal – awarded by the Irish National Teachers' Organisation (INTO) for ‘Outstanding Performance in School Placement’.
A teacher at St. Joseph's Primary School, Tipperary Town, Robyn, was one of 920 graduates from all 26 counties to graduate with Primary or Post-Primary teaching qualifications from Hibernia College in what was their largest graduation cohort to date.
Congratulating her and other graduates, who she described as ‘being in a unique position to shape the future of every one of their students,’ Dr Mary Kelly, Academic Dean at Hibernia College, said all in attendance “will make a vital and valuable contribution to their chosen profession at a time when our country is so short of teachers”.
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