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Minister for Education, Norma Foley TD, confirmed this week that plans are in place to support the full reopening of schools in time for the start of the new school year at the end of August/start of September 2021.

NUI Galway’s societies were the big winners at this year’s Board of Irish College Societies (BICS) Awards, taking home seven awards. BICS is a national organisation that was founded in 1995 and whose role is to provide a national forum for the societies in Ireland’s universities, colleges, and institutes of education.

NUI Galway’s Access Programmes, which have been supporting students from backgrounds traditionally under-represented at third level education for more than 20 years, has announced that applications for this year’s Access Programme for School Leavers opens on August 1.

Sinn Féin TD for Longford Westmeath Sorca Clarke has called on the government to pay child benefit in respect of 16-18 year olds over the summer months, after many families expecting the payment in recent times did not receive it.

GMIT’s School of Science and Computing has launched five new Master of Science programmes commencing in September 2021 - the MSc in sport and clinical biomechanics, MSc in nutrition and sensory science, MSc in medical science, MSc in biopharmaceutical manufacturing, and the MSc in international medical technologies, innovation, and development are all in-demand courses as highlighted in Ireland’s National Skills Strategy 2025.

Postgraduate law students at the Irish Centre for Human Rights at NUI Galway, have this week published secondary school teaching materials on institutional abuses in Ireland.

Music Generation Mayo and Music Generation Sligo have partnered for the first time to launch a new interactive summer camp for children aged 7-12 years old from July 26 to 30.

Local Fine Gael Senator, Aisling Dolan, has welcomed confirmation that a site has been identified and secured at Parkmore, Creagh, for the development of new permanent accommodation for the staff and students of St Teresa’s Special School in Ballinasloe.

Q: I’m a primary school teacher and really love the profession. I qualified six years ago and am now thinking moving into a school leadership role. Any suggestions on what I should do? (AH, email).

Róisín NicLochlainn, a law, sociology and politics student from Antrim, today officially becomes the new Students’ Union President at NUI Galway.