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If you are reeling from being made redundant, having had your working hours cut or failing to land your first real job despite countless efforts you may be finding it increasingly difficult to stay positive and interested in your future.

The Government has established a €4 million scheme to assist apprentices who are out of work, according to Fianna Fáil TD Noel Treacy.

A Kilkenny teacher was recently awarded a research bursary by the Teaching Council, the regulatory body which promotes teaching as a profession and seeks to maintain and improve standards in teaching.

The Government has established a €4 million scheme to assist apprentices who are out of work, according to Fianna Fáil TD and member of the Oireachtas Enterprise Committee, Dara Calleary.

Do you realise how powerful your thoughts really are? We think and we breathe unconsciously: Both actions are things we take for granted. But when we feel happy or sad in the body, it is always preceded by our thoughts.

With all the talk about uncertain times and recession, wouldn’t it be good to start considering possibility instead? Galway based life coach David Keane says that people need encouragement when times are tough — there is nothing like a good dose of old fashioned fear to freeze the entrepreneurial spirit in its tracks, and unfortunately there has been no shortage of that in recent times.

If your chosen career path in the area of special needs, you need to obtain the very best training available so you can work at the highest level with the top special needs assistants in the country. The role of a special needs assistant is a very rewarding career with family friendly working hours.

They used to say “Opportunity knocks”. They don’t say that much any more. The new rule for opportunity is you have to get it. You have to plan your own future. You have to know where you want to go. And you have to know how you are going to get there.

Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) has appointed Dr Deirdre Garvey to the new full-time position of lifelong learning co-ordinator at GMIT Castlebar. Fresh in her role Dr Garvey has advised that upskilling is vital to meet the challenges of ever-evolving technologies and changes in the workplace.

The country’s first degree in spa management was launched last week at a function in Athlone Institute of Technology.