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Students and staff at Yeats’ College were celebrating yesterday after students at the college achieved excellent results. Three students of the college achieved maximum points, with six A1s. A total of 12 students achieved 590 points or more.

As more than 3,000 Leaving Certificate students in Galway received their long-awaited examination results yesterday Minister for Training and Skills, Ciarán Cannon, urged them to “look forward to the future with confidence” and to continue to engage with the education system.

It is that time of year again as more than 6,200 Galway students but pen to paper during a series of examinations taking place over the next two weeks.

Let the Gaeltacht come to you this summer at Coláiste Deirbhle. This Irish language college, set at the foot of Nephin overlooking Lough Conn, is a great place to improve your mother tongue. Qualified and experienced Irish teachers, having grown up in the Gaeltacht and taught for many years in Gaeltacht summer collages, are offering a one week preparatory course for Higher and Ordinary Level Leaving Cert Irish, bearing in mind that the Irish oral for the new Leaving Cert Irish syllabus is now worth a massive 40 per cent.

West of Ireland based The Learning Curve Institute has developed a multi-platform approach to language learning and revision for the Leaving Certificate.

National FETAC accredited training and education specialists, The Learning Curve Institute, will again deliver its highly popular Leaving Cert French and Spanish oral course on Saturday February 25 in The Mayo Education Centre, Castlebar.

Togra Mhaigh Eo will be running oral Irish classes for Leaving Cert students starting on February 27.

The Galway Arts Centre will host the National Gallery of Ireland’s Study Day for Leaving Cert Students in the Nuns Island Theatre.

This is the time of the year for resolutions. We are all aware that 2012 will be challenging for businesses as well as on a personal level. In such a context, languages are bound to play a bigger role in the future.

A Leaving Cert revision course for all exam topics, including biology and chemistry, will take place at the TF Royal Theatre in Castlebar on January 7 and 8 next.