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The decision to abolish teaching foreign languages in primary school is “shows a disregard for the importance of language teaching at a young age and a short-sightedness about the future needs of this country”.

Brian Cody launched a Home School Community Liaison (HSCL) led literacy initiative in Grennan College in Thomastown on Wednesday November 9.

The Fr McGrath Centre and Newpark Close FRCs will be at the forefront on a new government drive to raise IT literacy skills and help improve Irish people’s employment skills for the 21st century labour market.

National Adult Literacy Awareness Week takes place next week from September 19 to 23. South Westmeath Literacy Scheme offers help to adults who have difficulties with reading, writing, spelling, or maths. Students can take part in a group or have one-to-one help from a volunteer tutor. The centre is open 60 hours every week with classes arranged at times to suit tutors and students. All learning is student driven, and all tuition is provided free of charge.

A city primary school was the only school in the Galway West region selected to take part in a pilot literacy summer programme.

The Olive Whelan School of Arts and Drama is now very well established in providing modules in arts-in-education, arts-in-health, and arts-in-therapy.

Literacy problems among school leavers attempting to access further education are being tackled at the roots in the south-east with an initiative from the Department of Education.

After the success of the fly-on-the-wall documentary Written-off?, RTE and the National Adult Literacy Agency are now looking for Galwegians to take part in the next series.

Volunteer literacy tutors are needed to provide one-to-one tuition, with an awareness event for volunteers and learners taking place on February 3 from 2pm to 4pm at the Further Education Centre (Friary) Ballyhaunis.

After the huge success of the fly-on-the-wall documentary Written Off? RTE and the National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA) are now looking for adults in the Leinster area to take part in the next series that will be filmed in early 2009.