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Nationally renowned training and education provider The Learning Curve Institute has announced that its popular FETAC Level 5 component certificate in drug and alcohol addiction will run at the Westside Resource Centre, Galway, at the end of this month.

The Schools’ Business Partnership announced that State Street are launching their first mentoring programme for students of Kilkenny City Vocational School

Some 310 apprentices in the Midlands region recently received certification on completion of their apprenticeships. A presentation of certificates was made to 50 of these apprentices by Minister Willie Penrose last Friday October 14.

Athlone Institute of Technology (AIT) has been delegated the authority to make its own awards up to doctoral level.

The Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn T.D., yesterday announced that a new further education and training authority called SOLAS (Seirbhísí Oideachais Leanúnaigh agus Scileanna) is to be established.

Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) is offering up to 20 places on degree programmes and 64 places on Higher Certificate programmes under the Government’s jobs initiative “Springboard”, launched recently by the Higher Education Authority (HEA).

“The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes,” these were the wise words of Benjamin Disraeli, a former British prime minister and the first Earl of Beaconsfield, words that Atlantic College founder John Daly has taken to heart and used as inspiration to build what began as a small language school into an internationally recognised success story.

Engineers Ireland, the representative body for the engineering profession in this country, has awarded full accreditation to the honours civil engineering degree at Athlone Institute of Technology (AIT).

A new business was launched in Westport over Christmas when Enda Kenny TD officiated at the opening of engineering business Horizon West, a high tech start-up delivering technical support services to manufacturers in the life sciences, electronics, and other knowledge based sectors. Horizon West expects to double its current workforce to 20 within the next year.

With points for most college courses set to increase this year because of a surge in demand for third-level places, the Crafts Council of Ireland (CCoI) is reminding Leaving Cert students of the many craft-related career options available to them.