STEP UP! Grant for Education and Training
The STEP UP! Grant for Education and Training is for people on low incomes and/or with lower involvement in education. It is available to jobseekers, people in receipt of social welfare, and low income families, in full or part-time further education and training. Applicants must be resident in the North Tipperary area. This grant supports [...]
Flynn O Kane Academy of Dance
One year on and Flynn O’Kane Academy of Dance has had a very busy and exciting year!!! The dancing duo really have achieved the goals and aims that were so important for their Academy. They have watched their students grow in confidence and have created an exciting buzz within the Academy while learning to dance. [...]
Quality Awareness Programme Course… A Childminding Must!!
North Tipperary County Childcare Committee are offering Childminders and those thinking of becoming a childminder a training course called the Quality Awareness Programme This course will be held over five evenings in September and October in Nenagh (see below) and covers topics such as the business side of childminding, health and safety, hygiene and an [...]
Thurles Education Centre Part Time Drawing Course
Thurles Education Centre, Kickham St, Thurles are offering a part time drawing course. This course will lead to a FETAC Level 4 certificate in Drawing. The course will begin on Wednesday the 31st of August and will run for two hours every Wednesday and Friday morning for 6 weeks. Any enquiries please ring (086) 3600103 [...]
Springboard Learning Courses Offer more Opportunities to Upskill in Tipperary Institute
Springboard, the recently announced Irish Government initiative which will provide almost 6,000 course places for the unemployed, has chosen BlueBrick.ie as the portal to manage all applications for the scheme. LIT Tipperary (formerly Tipperary Institute) has been approved for a number of courses BlueBrick.ie is the innovative website from the Institutes of Technology Ireland (IoTI) [...]
News from Thurles Education Centre May 2011
This month Thurles Education Centre teamed up with Tipperary Libraries to take part in a number of Bealtainne events. Our students learned the craft of glass painting from Jane Carragher and were treated to a dance workshop led by Rosalie Butler as part of this annual festival. We were honoured to attend a talk by [...]
North Tipperary B.T.E.I. Community Strand Summer Exhibition of Crafts held at the local Nenagh Library
The North Tipperary B.T.E.I. (Back to Education Initiative) Community Strand Summer Exhibition of Crafts will be held at the local Nenagh Library, O’Rahilly Street, Nenagh. The Exhibition will be officially opened by the Mayor of Nenagh Town at 11:00a.m on Wednesday 25th May. The Back To Education Initiative (B.T.E.I.) provides part-time Further Education programmes [...]
A History of President Barack Obama’s Ancestors, the Kearney’s
Moneygall is a small village located on the Offaly/Tipperary border, with a population of 298 people according to the 2006 census. Moneygall has a Roman Catholic Church, five shops, a post office, a national school, a Garda station, and two pubs. But this small unassuming village in rural Ireland has quite a substantial claim to [...]
Thurles Education Centre News, September 2010
Thurles Education Centre (North Tipperary Senior Traveller Training Centre) has resumed its courses in Kickham Street, Thurles. As well as FETAC Levels 1, 2 and 3, we are now offering FETAC Level 4 certification and the Junior Certificate. We are also offering part time BTEI courses which will commence in October. These courses will run [...]
Course Vacancies at Tipperary Institute
Despite large numbers of applicants to third-level colleges this year, The Irish Independent report that many courses at third level colleges remain unfilled. The Tipperary Institute, now linked to Limerick Institute of Technology has been unable to fill 22 of its 23 course. The Institute posted courses which still have vacancies onto the CAO website [...]
