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Fine Gael’s proposals to remove Irish as a compulsory subject in the Leaving Certificate is a move that will kill off the language once and for all.

National Learning Network, Galway, in conjunction with FÁS is now recruiting for a new two year FETAC Level four certificate in horticulture.

South West Mayo Development Company is holding an information workshop, for a free part-time FETAC Level 3 accredited Revival Skills Training and Support Programme, for the unemployed / underemployed women in the South West Mayo area on Thursday, February 10 from 10am to 12.30pm and 8pm to 9pm in Le Cheile Family Resource Centre,

Representatives from the College of Progressive Education, one of Ireland’s leading care training colleges providing courses in childcare, montessori, healthcare, special needs assistant and train the trainer leading to FETAC qualifications, will be in the Newpark Hotel from 5pm on February 9, 2011 to discuss the range of courses available.

As part of a BT Young Scientist project being carried out by St Gerald’s College, Castlebar, students are asked to take part in a survey which is researching the trends in numbers of students taking Higher Level Maths and Irish for the Leaving Cert.

Minister for Community, Equality, and Gaeltacht Affairs Pat Carey has announced funding of more than €90,000 for a further 33 community and voluntary groups under the Seniors Alert Scheme.

Western Management Centre is the first training organisation in the West of Ireland to receive FETAC accreditation for their Manual Handling Train the Trainer Course. This Special Purpose Certificate is designed to equip Learners with the knowledge, skills and competence to effectively design and deliver manual handling instruction in the workplace. Almost every occupational setting requires some form of manual handling. The manual handling regulations seek to reduce the very large incidence of back injury and non fatal injuries arising from the manual handling of loads at work.

More than 2,000 students from NUI Galway and GMIT and their supporters are expected to descend on Spanish Arch at lunchtime today to protest against proposed Government plans to increase registration fees and impose cuts to the student maintenance grant.

Yeats College has recently been recognised as the highest ranking school outside of Dublin to provide students to UCD. The college has performed extremely well on a national level, coming in 10th in a recent study of the top feeder schools to UCD for 2010.

Leaving Certificate pupils studying the Leaving Certificate Vocational Programme at Davitt College, Castlebar, were privileged to welcome Capt Noel Carey (retd) to their LCVP class recently. Capt Carey was on a visit to the west of Ireland from Cork where he resides with his wife Angela.