Limerick County is the latest area to commence participation in Music Generation, Ireland’s national music education programme which strives to transform children and young people’s lives by giving them opportunities to create, play and perform music in their own communities. ‘Music Generation Limerick County’ will be established as part of the programme’s journey towards nationwide…
A new apprenticeship ‘taster’ scheme for transition years with an interest in the hospitality industry as a career has proven highly popular with students across the Limerick and Clare region over the past academic year. The initiative, run by Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board’s College of FET Hospitality Campus in Limerick, is aligned…
On Tuesday 11th May Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board’s Local Creative Youth Partnership launched its first Strategic Plan. One of three national pilot programmes, the Partnership is part of the Creative Youth pillar within Creative Ireland, with a remit to develop creative opportunities with young people in their communities. The Strategic Plan identifies…
The Creative Ireland Programme Creative Youth Conference 2021 is being hosted online this year and comprises of three separate events in April and May, discussing questions surrounding provision of opportunities for creative engagement by young people both within the school and their community. The second conference in the series on Thursday 15th April focused on…
The Inaugural Review of Quality Assurance in Ireland’s 16 Education and Training Boards commenced last week, with the first external review panel visit undertaken at Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board. The inaugural review is an historic event – both for Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI) and ETBs – as it is the first review process of…
Over 1600 Transition Year and 5th Year students from across the Mid-West region virtually attended the Junior Health Sciences Academy ‘Early Careers’ Event on March 2nd and 3rd. Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board’s Schools Division worked with the Health Sciences Academy, a partnership between University of Limerick, the UL Hospitals Group and the…
With the phased return to schools which got underway on Monday 1st March as part of the Government’s ‘Covid-19 Resilience & Recovery 2021: The Path Ahead’, Leaving Certificate students at Coláiste Chiaráin in Croom, County Limerick, have returned to a very different environment – a brand new, state-of-the-art school building. The group of over 100…
A new leadership programme that will provide highly-subsidised targeted training for the hospitality and tourism industry in the Mid-West region has today been welcomed by the Minister of State with responsibility for Skills and Further Education, Niall Collins TD. Developing Leaders for Hospitality and Tourism, funded through the Government’s Skills to Advance initiative, is the…
Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board has announced that approval has been granted by the Department of Education to refurbish the main school building at Glenroe. Works will commence shortly and the pupils and community can look forward to having a state-of-the-art facility when the school reopens after the summer. Glenroe, a satellite classroom…
Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board’s College of Further Education and Training, Hospitality Campus, has today launched a new leadership programme, Developing Leaders for Hospitality and Tourism, funded through the Skills to Advance initiative and aimed at providing targeted training for the hospitality industry at this challenging time. Skills to Advance is a national…