The Mission of the Education Office is to promote, and enable our schools to promote and live out, a Christian vision of education as a faith community inspired by Gospel values and the story of Nano Nagle.

In essence, the Office acts on behalf of the Trustees to promote, develop and monitor as appropriate, the Presentation Ethos in our schools.  The Presentation Congregation (Northern Province) has very strong links with seventeen second-level schools and twenty-four Primary schools. The Congregation has set up the Education Office to ensure its responsibilities to the schools are met.  The role of the Education Office is to support, develop and manage the schools as appropriate to their status.  The central focus of the Office is to promote and develop the Presentation Ethos in the schools and to ensure that school policies and practices are informed by the founding intentions of Nano Nagle.  This involves working with Boards, Chairpersons, Principals, Deputies, Staffs, Parents and Students as appropriate for each sector.  The Office works to develop in all of these parties an appreciation of their role in making faith development a reality in our schools.

The Office also works to ensure that the Trust meets its legal responsibilities and gathers information from schools about same.  

The Office provides the a support service to our Primary Schools under the following headings: Ethos & Faith Development, Boards of Management, Amalgamations, Staffing, In-service Training, Consultancy Service, Statistical Information, Property & Finance, Direct Exercise of Trusteeship (as may be required).

At second-level the Office provides a service to Community Schools under the following headings: Ethos & Faith Development, Boards of Management, In-service, Consultancy Service.

The Office provides a service to Voluntary Secondary Schools under the following headings:   Ethos & Faith Development, School Development Planning & Policy Development, In-service (Boards of Management, Principals, Deputies, Staff, Parents), Management Issues/Boards of Management, Support, Resource & Advisory Service, Finance & Property, Changes in Trusteeship, Other.    

 From the end of May 2007, the trusteeship of the voluntary secondary schools will transfer to a new collaborative Trust, called CEIST, Catholic Education, an Irish Schools Trust. For more information visit the CEIST Website. Visitors to the CEIST Website may subscribe to the CEIST eNews, a regular bulletin about developments in CEIST, delivered to your e-mail account.

The Office team comprises Sr. Evelyn Byrne (Director), Mr. Noel Keating and Sr. Catherine Brosnan with secretarial support from Ms. Valerie Melia and Ms. Jenny Murphy.

In addition the province has appointed Sr. Mary Rossitter to coordinate its Faith Development Initiative which offers support to schools and, in particular, to Religious Education teachers in the voluntary secondary schools. The province is also engaged in research into adult faith development and how it can be supported within the school community. Sr. Ursula Lawler and Ms. Bernadette Fitzgerald are engaged in this research.