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Transition Year students encouraged to enter Go Places with Bus Eireann

Transition Year students encouraged to enter Go Places with Bus Eireann

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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IT Sligo Careers Fair returns on February 1st

IT Sligo Careers Fair returns on February 1st

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

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Maura Hopkins – Extra resources and staffing for special Education needs is “Very Positive

Maura Hopkins – Extra resources and staffing for special Education needs is “Very Positive

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

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Minister Denis Naughten confirms new model for special education resources

Minister Denis Naughten confirms new model for special education resources

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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Two Awards for Roscommon projects at BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition

Two Awards for Roscommon projects at BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition

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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Roscommon well represented at BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition

Roscommon well represented at BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition

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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Local food entrepreneurs can benefit from GMIT project

Local food entrepreneurs can benefit from GMIT project

Local food entrepreneurs have received a further boost, following the unveiling of the Castlerea Food Hub last November, with the recent announcement of a new GMIT project. GMIT has been awarded EU funding for a unique project called “Creating Entrepreneurs in Food (CEF)’, which aims to build food innovation and entrepreneurship-focused rural communities and economies

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Roscommon Integrated Development Company awarded Digital Skills Funding

Roscommon Integrated Development Company awarded Digital Skills Funding

Roscommon Integrated Development Company has been awarded €595,000 under the Digital Skills for Citizens Grant Scheme to provide basic digital skills training to 7,000 people in the county. Roscommon Integrated Development Company has been awarded the funding by the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment. In announcing the news Minister Denis Naughten said: “For

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Roscommon students to benefit from GRETB training day

Roscommon students to benefit from GRETB training day

Yesterday, Tuesday December 6th, was a very important day for Galway – Roscommon Education and Training Board (GRETB) and its staff. In two large clusters, 500 teachers from 11 Galway – Roscommon Education and Training Board Schools underwent a full day of CPD – Continuing Professional Development. The attendees explored developments in curriculum, assessment and

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