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Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board has published a three-year strategic agreement setting out its priority areas for the coming years, which will see 30% more learners securing employment from its provision serving the labour market and 46% more learners progressing to other further or higher education courses. It demonstrates the commitment of the…

The FET Campus Newcastle West was host to the Healthnic Erasmus + Project. The project was run in conjunction with our partners in IT Tralee and was co-ordinated by LCETB teacher and researcher, Alex McKillican. More details of the project can be found by clicking on the links below: Healthnic Diet Twitter Healthnic Erasmus Project LinkedIn Healthnic Diet…

On Friday the 18th of January, a selection of the cast of Desmond College’s production of Thank You for The Music: Our Mamma Mia Story journeyed to the Brothers of Charity in Bawnmore, Co. Limerick to perform an abridged version of the show for the service users. This abridged version of the story was designed…

Plastic is NOT Fantastic

In our quest to encourage best practice in recycling, the Student Council in Desmond College saw an opportunity to reduce the amount of plastic waste that was flowing through our school everyday.  Each day, both staff and students were going through over 400 plastic water bottles. A huge percentage of these water bottles were not…

Last week students from Colaiste Chiarain, Croom attended the “Macbeth Session” delivered by Cyclone Rep, a Theatre in Education Company. Since Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” is on the Leaving Certificate course, this session was of huge benefit to the students. Every year the English department organise for students at both Junior and Senior cycle to view these…