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NUI Galway is to offer a new electronic engineering degree, via the CAO, called the BE. in engineering innovation – electronic. The new four-year course, with the option of a fifth year to achieve a masters, will deliver graduates with the skills and capabilities to start up their own company to design niche electronic products for world-wide markets.

Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) will hold information sessions at three of its campuses this month (January), for Leaving Certificate pupils and mature people considering attending college in 2009.

Kilkenny provided three of the 12 high-achieving first year students who received the Director’s Merit Prize at Waterford Institute of Technology this week.

A new magazine entitled AIT Life will be published by Athlone Institute of Technology this week. The magazine, which has a print run of 120,000, will be distributed free of charge in newspapers across a broad corridor stretching from Galway to Meath and Kildare. It will also be available in libraries, adult education centres, and FÁS offices.

The country’s first degree in spa management was launched last week at a function in Athlone Institute of Technology.

The admissions office at Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology has received over 600 applications for its new degree programme at the Castlebar campus — the BA in applied social sciences, commencing in September.

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AFTER 18 months of diligent preparation, the Volvo Ocean Race is finally almost upon us, and the racing yachts’ arrival in Galway next week signals the commencement of two action-packed weeks of sailing, music, spectacle, culture, and craic in what will be Ireland’s largest ever free festival which is expected to bring 200,000 visitors to the city.

THE GALWAY Arts Centre is hosting a series of travel and ocean themed exhibitions and events to coincide with the Volvo Ocean Race stopover in the city.

With the Leaving results in hand and CAO offers before you, it looks like you are about to leave home and head off to college for the first time. But what about issues like finding the right accommodation, how much a year at college costs, how to budget, keep healthy and safe, how to fit in to the new college environment, and who can help you if you need it. It is a lot to consider.