Cully of the Cully & Sully food business returned to his old secondary school in Waterford accompanied by GIY (Grow It Yourself) this week. During the visit Cully shared with the students the success story behind one of Ireland’s biggest food businesses and launched an inaugural competition titled Give Peas a Chance. This initiative aims …
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The Galway – Roscommon Education and Training Board (GRETB) is a further education and training organisation covering counties Galway and Roscommon. At present they are recruiting a panel of volunteer tutors to help with adult literacy, numeracy and communications. Adult education and literacy tuition is very different to learning in School. It primarily centres on …
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Three Roscommon schools have been included in the Government’s DEIS (Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools) Plan 2017 to tackle educational disadvantage. Strabaggan NS and St Lasair’s NS, which are both located in Arigna and Cloonbonnif NS, Castlerea will now receive additional supports which the next School year commences in September. The DEIS Plan 2017 …
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has teamed up with young photographer and music video director, Christian Tierney to launch an exciting new competition for secondary schools today themed The Story of Your Stuff. Students are invited to choose an everyday object such as a pen, mobile phone or a water bottle and use a visual …
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An open evening on accounting programmes offered by GMIT will take place in the Galway (Dublin Road) campus this Thursday, February 9th, from 6.30 to 8.30pm. Information will be available on all GMIT’s offerings including technician, undergraduate, postgraduate and professional programmes available in the Galway and Mayo campuses. Hosted by the School of Business, the …
GIY and innocent drinks team up to launch the sixth annual Sow and Grow initiative, a project that will enable 45,000 primary school children across the country to learn how to grow their own food this spring. Picture Credit: Mark Stedman Primary schools across Ireland can now apply for a free Sow and Grow pack …
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Local Minister Denis Naughten has confirmed that €20m in additional funding is to be made available for apprenticeships and traineeships. “This funding will ensure that 13 new apprenticeship schemes are delivered by the end of this year with another 120 apprenticeships and traineeship schemes to come on stream by 2020,” stated Minister Naughten. The Government’s …
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The deadline is fast approaching for Bus Éireann’s exciting new competition for Transition Year students, Go Places with Bus Éireann, which is running for the first time in the current academic year, 2016/2017. Picture Credit: Jason Clarke With seven weeks left to enter, participating students will be in with a chance of winning one of …
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Several of Ireland’s most dynamic companies will visit the IT Sligo Careers Fair on Wednesday, February 1st, to showcase their graduate employment opportunities. The IT Sligo Careers Fair, which will run from 11am to 3pm, will span a range of industry sectors including Engineering, Computing, Digital Technology, Accounting and Science. The 53 confirmed exhibitors include …
Fine Gael Senator Maura Hopkins the news that the Government is to provide 900 extra resource teachers and an extra €18 million to implement a new model for the allocation of resource teachers to support children with special educational needs “is very positive”. Commenting on the issue Maura Hopkins said, “Minister Bruton has informed me …
Minister Denis Naughten has confirmed that a new model for the allocation of Special Education Teaching Resources to both primary and secondary schools will be introduced from September. In a statement released earlier Denis Naughten said that this new model will be a fairer and better way to allocate resources to support children with Special …
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Students who want to combine their passion for sport with sound business acumen and leadership skills now have a learning opportunity to realise both ambitions, thanks to a new honours degree course at IT Sligo. The Bachelor of Business (Honours) in Sport with Business is a new three-year programme which is now available on the …
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Picture Credit: Fennells Photography Two Roscommon projects received Awards at BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition which entered it’s penultimate day today in the RDS. Abbie Moloney (above) from Scoil Mhuire Strokestown received the 3rd place Senior individual Award in the Biological and Ecological category for her project entitled “An investigation into the quality of …
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Picture Credit: Chris Bellew / Fennell Photograph 20 projects from Roscommon Post Primary Schools are among the 550 nationwide which have featured at the 2017 BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition over recent days. The 20 local BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition projects come from 46 students of four local Schools: CBS Roscommon, Scoil …
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The Department of Children and Youth Affairs have confirmed that replacement youth services will be established in the county by the end of this month. The news comes following the withdrawal of funding to Youth Work Ireland, which operated Youth services in Ballaghaderreen, Roscommon town and Ballygar. The Galway Roscommon Education and Training Board and …
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