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The Galway Community College (GCC) legal secretary, medical secretary and office administrator course is an extremely popular course due to its continued success rate. Some 85 per cent of its graduates obtain full-time and part-time employment in a legal practice, medical practice, hospital administration, public service, and as office administrators in multinational companies within six months of graduating. The remainder of the students progress to higher education courses in the GMIT and NUIG and apprenticeship programmes.

A new online portal – www.gov.ie/therightcourse - a one stop shop and outlines the third level options available to those wishing to obtain or add to their qualifications has been launched this week.

Irish Wheelchair Association’s Ability Programme is a free service supporting young adults with physical disabilities who want to improve their job-seeking and employability skills. The aim of the programme is to provide holistic, person-centred, coaching to enable a person to become an independent jobseeker or employee. The programme offers one-to-one support to help participants develop their own step-by-step career progression plan. It is open to people aged 18 to 29 years living anywhere in the Republic of Ireland.

Unemployed, employees, and employers in Galway are set to benefit from a new online portal for people seeking to upskill or retrain.

Galway is expected to benefit from “significant investment” in the development of remote working hubs later this year as part of the Government’s National Remote Working Strategy.

Registration fees for nurses and midwives - workers who have been at the frontlines of the Covid-19 pandemic for close to a year - must be waived for 2021.

A total of 4,000 people will complete their citizenship process by the end of March, but this still leaves 20,000 people waiting for their applications to be processed - and many of them are frontline workers.

Galway-based multi-award winning recruitment agency, Pale Blue Dot® Recruitment, has seen an unprecedented number of vacancies open up in the MedTech sector at the beginning of 2021. The MedTech sector currently employs over 40,000 people in Ireland and is the second largest employer of MedTech professionals in Europe, per capita. As many as nine of the world’s top 10 MedTech companies have a base in Ireland.

Workers made unemployed by the impact of Covid-19, and the lockdowns, enter 2021 facing tax liabilities on the welfare which sustained their livelihoods throughout last year.

Student nurses and midwives deserve to be paid a living wage "for their heroic work" and not the current Government offer, which "amounts to around €3 an hour".