The Minister for Education and Skills Joe McHugh TD has launched a new art and design competition for senior cycle students to create a logo representing Wellbeing in Education/Folláin san Oideachas. The winning design will be used on all materials and resources supporting the Department’s Wellbeing Policy in all schools and centres for education. Minister […]
Budget increases by €360 million to €11.1 billion as special education, small schools and teaching principals benefit from new investment. More higher education places and new third level courses being created as part of new €60 million fund. Increase in funding for apprenticeships and training under the National Training Fund. Budget 2020 provides the fourth […]
A new €230,000 mobile library launched today (Monday) by Wicklow County Council will carry over 3,000 items and have a “bounce pad” providing easy internet access to users. The mobile library service is used regularly by 1,500 people as it visits different parts of rural Wicklow. Speaking at the launch, the Cathaoirleach of Wicklow County […]
Fingal County Council, along with 19 other local authorities, will support local disabilities groups as they hit the streets on Make Way Day, which is taking place on Thursday September 26. The groups will provide friendly reminders not to: • Park on the footpath • Forget your bins or use illegal sandwich boards • Carelessly […]
‘Expect to Connect’ this October as Wainfest, the annual Children’s Arts and Book Festival makes its highly anticipated return. The festival, organised by Donegal County Council’s Culture Division, is one of the country’s leading children’s festivals. This year, the week-long festival will run from October 5th – 13th 2019. Children and their families are invited […]
Cork City Libraries are set to benefit from a €45,000 grant from the Dormant Accounts Fund, a fund designed to support programmes that enhance the development of economically or socially marginalised persons and those with disabilities. Cork City Library’s LitBit – Steps to Literacy and Inclusion programme will receive the funding boost. LitBit is a […]
The training programme has been developed by a steering group of boat building and maintenance employers (Brian O’Sullivan – Marine, Tralee; Ger Sullivan – Bere Island Boatyard; and Murphy – Murphy Marine Services, Valentia); in conjunction with Kerry ETB as partner. The programme will also help to address any skills gaps that existing employers within
Cork City Council and Cork County Council have launched a public awareness campaign aimed at the 85,000 citizens living in the parts of the county that are due to transfer to the city. Areas such as Ballincollig, Blarney, Tower, Glanmire, Douglas, Donnybrook, Grange, Frankfield, Rochestown and Togher are to transfer from Cork County Council to […]
Are you thinking about a return to education? The Whitaker School of Government and Management at the Institute of Public Administration (IPA) will provide almost 70 part-time undergraduate and postgraduate programmes this autumn, all designed for adult students. As we turn toward summer, people can be forgiven for being more concerned with holiday plans than with […]
Jobs that have the words “life coach” and “personal development coach” have had increased interest among job seekers in recent years; in the past two years alone there was a 25% increase in searches for jobs with these specific keywords. Three years ago, life coaching was the second fastest growing profession and was worth two […]
The 2018 gradireland Graduate Salary & Graduate Recruitment Trends Survey gauges the temperature of the graduate recruitment market in terms of what employers are paying, what skills are in demand, what recruitment methods are most common and much more. The gradireland Graduate Salary & Graduate Recruitment Trends Survey 2018 was published earlier this year and
‘Tangent, Trinity’s Ideas Workspace’ hopes to build upon Trinity’s position as a European leader in innovation and entrepreneurship and Dublin as a location of choice for technology investment and new start-up creation. Innovation experts and student entrepreneurs gathered for the launch of ‘Tangent, Trinity’s Ideas Workspace’. This exciting new initiative at Trinity
On 30th May 2019, the I-LOFAR Education Centre opened its doors on the grounds of Birr Castle in Offaly. Birr was chosen as the location of the Centre following the marked developments Offaly and the Midlands region saw after the installation of the I-LOFAR radio telescope in 2017. The attention brought to Offaly after such […]
Cork City Council, has recently received funding from Science Foundation Ireland’s Discover Programme Call to stage the first Cork Carnival of Science. The event aims to entertain and engage the public in the areas of Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics. The carnival will take place on Saturday the 22nd and Sunday the 23rd of June. […]
Irish diplomats and peacekeepers to visit secondary schools nationwide. Taoiseach Leo Varadkar today visited Ringsend College in Dublin to launch the Global Schools programme, which will see Irish diplomats and peacekeepers visiting secondary schools around the country to talk to students about the Global Ireland programme and the work they do overseas. As part of […]
Cork County Council has launched a new road safety awareness programme called ‘Your Life – Your Choice’, using Virtual Reality (VR) Technology to simulate a serious road accident. The programme is targeted at young drivers aged 16 to 25; the most vulnerable road users with passenger fatalities the highest in this age group. Mayor of […]
The GLOBE International Citizen Science Schools’ Programme is celebrating its second year to engage and educate students across Ireland in environmental studies. The EPA and An Taisce have today launched the second year of the GLOBE campaign in Ireland. The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Programme is an international science and […]
4 days, 19 hours, 38 minutes, and 48 seconds until the innovations of Amplitude 2018 impact industries across the country. Amplitude is a collaborative effort by Waterford and Carlow IT to help industry understand the benefits academic research can have on their sectors. The event is the first of its kind in the South East […]
The Northwest Regional Working Group organised a major emergency exercise in the Clanree Hotel in Letterkenny yesterday involving 100 participants. The training event was code-named Exercise Neptune, and was based on a rapidly escalating flooding incident in the Finn Valley area, County Donegal. Participants were told that there were some casualties and widespread property
Minister for Rural and Community Development, Michael Ring TD, has approved a digital investment package for public libraries across Ireland. Five libraries in Wexford will be distributing €221,000 between each other, and an additional contribution of €74,000 will be supplemented by Wexford County Council. This brings the total funding available for digital services and