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The ACCA diploma in accountancy and business course is now starting in the Western Management Centre. Classes take place over two evenings per week from September 2018 to May 2019. In that time, participants can gain an international qualification, plus it offers a pathway into further studies with students having the opportunity to transfer into the ACCA professional route.

Three young students achieved the highest Kumon academic awards as gold medallist English completers at the Kumon Galway City West awards ceremony.

A total of 127 transition year students from St Colman's College, Claremorris and Ballinrobe Community School, were treated to a educating behind-the-scenes at Ballinrobe racecourse on Tuesday last.

Athlone primary school, Scoil na gCeithre Máistrí, has been awarded ‘top of the class’ for battery recycling for their contribution to European Battery Recycling week which took place from September 3-9.

The staff and student body of Athlone IT suffered heartbreaking news on Tuesday afternoon when a fatal accident at Bonavalley claimed the life of an 18 year old second year academic who was attending the third level institution.

The reality of the cost of third level education becomes all too real for parents and students at this time of year. New research by the Irish League of Credit Unions has found that nine in ten parents help to fund their child’s college education. On average, they contribute €584 per month during the college year. Almost half of these parents say they are forced to cut spending on clothing and goods for other children in the family in an effort to cope with costs.

NUI Galway’s International Affairs Office and College of Science have just announced a tailor-made programme in Marine Science and Biology for international students coming to Galway for a semester or year for a study abroad experience.

Coláiste Éinde was founded very shortly after the State itself was founded. The aim was to educate boys through the medium of Irish so that they would go on to St Patrick’s teacher training college, get secure employment for life, and in turn, teach a new generation of boys through Irish. It started life in Furbo House, an old house belonging to the Blake family. A domestic problem arose within the family who owned the house, so the school’s stay there was brief and they had to leave at Christmas 1930. The college was transferred to Talbot House in Talbot Street, Dublin, the following month.

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St Joseph's secondary school in Castlebar will be celebrating the school's centenary next month, with a weekend of events to mark the 100 years of the school set to take place over Saturday October 27 and Sunday October 28.