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At the recent launch of Confidential Mentoring, which is designed to improve your personal and professional life, mentor Seán Connaughton explained how much easier and more enjoyable it is to transform the quality of your life.

Mayo post-primary students are encouraged to get their entries in quickly for this year’s SciFest ahead of the deadline of Friday March 12. Last year Mayo student Aoife Bell from St Joseph’s College, Castlebar received an Intel Excellence in Science medal for her project entitled ‘Caffeine: A help or hindrance’. Entry forms for SciFest 2010 are downloadable from the website, www.scifest.ie

The countdown to the Junior and Leaving Certificate has begun, with just 100 days remaining for students sitting their State exams this summer.

GCC will be holding its Further Education Open Day on Wednesday next March 10, from 10am-4pm. In keeping with current trends and demand, the college currently offers 18 full time FETAC Level Five courses in business and media, performance and production, design and technology, social care, sport and horticulture.

I wrote recently of the urgent need for competence in Government. Commercial competence gained through experience at the coalface is essential to successfully negotiate the current economic challenges. In any major public organisation the people at the helm are appointed on ability gained through experience of working at a high level in business.

At the start of the nineties, with the last chords of ole ole ole croaking from our throats, and the whole world knowing that we were great craic, complete with a copy of The Joshua Tree under our arms, we sat down to see how we could all be taken more seriously across the world. For decades Paddy had been seen as the man with spuds growing in his fingernails, with the next fight just an utterance away. Now that we were universally acclaimed as being great fun to be with, all we needed to join the world was a bitteen of wealth and a bitteen of education — the two things our forefathers had fought for in the GPO.

Some 30 employers in the hospitality industry from all over the country are to take part in the GMIT hotel school annual careers fair at Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology on Wednesday March 3.

If you are an adult looking to develop an appreciation for music and would like to be able to read and understand music then a course taking place in the Westport College of Further Education may be for you.

A school in which all subjects are taught through Irish in an attractive encouraging environment. That is the environment that is created at Scoil Raifteiri, Castlebar.

The Minister for Education has been called on to provide alternative support for children with special needs following cuts to special needs assistants which came into force last week.