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Club Áras na nGael’s popular sean-nós dancing classes will return at the end of January, under the expert tuition of Connemara sean-nós dancer Pádraig Ó hOibicín.

Rhythm is in all of us, all you need is the right inspiration to find it. If you have always wanted to play music but do not know where to start, or you are already playing but do not know how to take your playing to the next level, now is the time. The new year Bodhran Magic adult group courses are kicking off soon and running in the city centre.

NUI Galway will hold a special information evening for prospective students on Wednesday January 18 from 5.30pm to 8.30pm in the Arts Millennium Building. The event is aimed at mature students, Leaving Certificate students, and parents/guardians.

GTI Adult Education term 2 is open for registration with a great choice of programmes on offer for 2017.

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This is the advice for all parents of primary school children who are experiencing difficulties at school with this core subject. Frank Murphy, manager of FCL Galway, explains that one of the keys to success in maths is having a solid fluency in the foundational maths skills that are taught in primary school. Too often, students do not get sufficient practice at the different basic skills and so lack the confidence needed to tackle the more complex ideas that appear in secondary school mathematics and beyond. Often students lack the necessary fluency and feel that they are “no good at maths”.

Four Galway students have been presented with a €1000 Academic Scholarship to study at DCU. The scholarships were awarded to the following students in recognition of them achieving 550 points or more in the Leaving Certificate.

THE GALWAY Music Centre, a collaborative project to enhance music education and performance facilities and services, and to develop "coordinated and community-based supports" for music, was launched this week.

THE AWARD winning Galway based artist Jennifer Cunningham will hold a new season of her popular arts classes which start on Monday January 16.

NUI Galway has announced the appointment of Professor Cathal O’Donoghue as the new Dean of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies.