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Westport based The Learning Curve Institute, one of the west’s fastest expanding training and education providers, is now enrolling students on a host of internationally recognised, FETAC accredited courses and workshops in Castlebar, Sligo, Galway and many other areas all over Ireland.

Westport based The Learning Curve Institute, one of the west’s fastest expanding training and education providers, is now enrolling students on a host of internationally recognised, FETAC accredited courses and workshops in Castlebar, Sligo, Galway and many other areas all over Ireland.

GALWAY ARTIST Jennifer Cunningham, one of the city’s most talented young artists, is holding a series of art classes at her new art school in Newcastle.

Last week’s Cabinet reshuffle has left the role of the Minister for Drugs vacant and has effectively sidelined the national drugs strategy at a time when we need to put every effort into tackling Ireland’s drugs crisis, according to Castlebar Fine Gael town councillor Ger Deere.

Parents of primary and secondary students in the Galway city area and can avail of Gaelnua’s Gaeltacht summer day-course option for their children.

Demand for childcare training has reached an all time high since the introduction of the Government’s new free pre-school scheme. The Early Childhood Care and Education Scheme requires that staff in childcare services have accredited childcare training in order to participate in the scheme. “This has been a welcome step in the professionalisation of childcare,” said Mary Giblin, coordinator of the Galway City and County Childcare Committee.

It has often been noted about many of the Viking and Norman families that came to Ireland in the Middle Ages that once they settled down they became “more Irish than the Irish themselves”.

GCC will be holding its Further Education Open Day on Wednesday next March 10, from 10am-4pm. In keeping with current trends and demand, the college currently offers 18 full time FETAC Level Five courses in business and media, performance and production, design and technology, social care, sport and horticulture.

Ballinrobe Community School has impressive achievements in the academic, sporting and cultural fields. It consistently scores a very high ranking nationally. It provides a full range of academic, scientific, artistic and technological subjects. As a progressive and innovative school it is well aware of the changing needs of its students, and the demands that society makes on them. It encourages their personal and social development through participation in sport, debating, music, drama, art, educational tours, projects and competitions.

A Galway based design agency recently launched the latest version of the award winning Abairleat e-learning website.