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Welcome
What's
new on the site today:
02-03-2010
- Visit www.yourcountryyourcall.ie
- Your Country, Your Call is a competition to ignite imaginations and
inspire thinking. Click on the link to find out more.
20-02-2010
08-02-2010
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SOSAD
is a new charity aimed at increasing awareness of suicide in Ireland.
If you would like to pay tribute to someone
you have lost through suicide, contact info@sosadireland.ie. You can
email a small photograph and some information on the special someone
you have lost. SOSAD will
then post this information on the website as a memorial.
28-01-2010
- The Adult Learners'
Festival 2010 will take place from 22 - 26 February 2010. Visit www.adultlearnersfestival.com
to find out what's happening in your area.
23-01-2010
18-01-2010
- The EBS joins forces
with NALA (the National Adult Literacy Agency) and calls for applications
to the 2010 ACE Awards. Visit www.ebs.ie
or www.nala.ie
for more infromation.
11-01-2010
- The Sunday Independent
(10th January 2010) published an article about Traveller women entitled:
Young traveller women talk fashion, love, sex and reputations. Click
here to read the article.
06-01-2010
- Schools are to
get free access to online versions of the popular Encyclopedia Britannica
and World Book as part of an e-Learning initiative announced
by the Minister for Education and Science, Batt O'Keeffe TD. Click
here for more information.
21-12-2009
- College graduates
to help develop digital material for schools as part of a deal
signed by the Minister for Education and Science, Batt O'Keeffe TD.
Click
here to find out more.
10-12-2009
09-12-2009
- Thanks to the generous
donation of Perlico, NALA has 38 Dell Vostro laptop computers to distribute
for blended learning projects in 2010. Visit the NALA
website to find out more.
03-12-2009
- Are you health
literate? Health literacy is the degree to which individuals
have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information
and services needed to make appropriate health decisions. Visit www.healthliteracy.ie
for more information.
27-11-2009
- The fourth annual
nationwide
Adult Learners' Festival will take place from February 22nd to February
26th 2010. Visit the Aontas
website to find out more.
- BTEI (Part-Time)
Application Documents for 2010 are now available on the Department
of Education and Science website.
20-11-2009
- The theme of Traveller
Focus Week 2009 is Traveller Pride, and one of the events this year
will be the very first Traveller Pride Awards. Click
here to find out more
- Michael Collins'
new play "Worlds Apart, Same Difference" will be performed
in the Project Arts Centre, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 on the 3rd, 4th and
5th of December.
15-11-2009
13-11-2009
- There is now available
a safe vaccine to protect from Swine Flu and over the coming months,
the HSE will offer a Swine Flu vaccine to the entire population.
Visit www.swineflu.ie website
for more information
03-11-2009
- The Voice of
the Traveller magazine is now available online - click
here to view.
- Schools are invited
to seek funding for small-scale projects under 2010 Summer Works Scheme
- visit www.education.ie
for more information.
29-10-2009
- The Swine Flu
Vaccine is now available for specific groups of people most at-risk
from Swine Flu. You can be vaccinated at your GP's
Surgery or a HSE Clinic from Monday November 2nd. Click
here for more information.
20-10-2009
8-10-2009
- Mental health is
something we all have and it is something we should take steps to protect
in the same way we guard our physical health.www.letsomeoneknow.ie
is a new website to help young people understand more about whats
getting them down, and hopefully find a few ways to help.
2-10-2009
15-09-2009
- The
closing date has been extended for the Specialist Certificate in
Youth Health Promotion 2009-2010. Visit www.activelink.ie
for course details and application
form.
05-08-2009
- Irelands
banks agree new Protocol with MABS to help customers to manage debt
in challenging times - click
here to find out more.
28-07-2009
- Click
here to access the latest email bulletin of the National Youth
Arts Programme at the National Youth Council of Ireland.
16-07-2009
- Bord Snip recommends
that the provision for the Senior Traveller Training Centres be wound
down over the next 2 to 3 years with participants being integrated
into mainstream adult and further education programmes. Read the press
release on the TUI website or read section C.5 Integration of
Senior Traveller Training from the
Education section of the 'An Bord Snip Nua' report.
02-07-2009
- The Adult Learners'
Festival 2010 will take place from 22nd - 26th February 2010. Check
out www.adultlearnersfestival.com
for more information on becoming involved.
23-06-2009
- 2,500 new third-level
places to target jobless workers, according to the Minister for Education
and Science,
Batt O'Keeffe TD. Visit www.education.ie
to find out more.
15-06-2009
- 'Positive Action
for Traveller Employment' documents ten innovative projects where
employers, Traveller organisations, state agencies
and others have come together to establish labour market opportunities
for Travellers. Visit the the
Equality Authority website to view the report.
08-06-2009
- Request for
tender: to investigate the theories behind plain English guidelines
- visit the NALA
website to find out more.
25-05-2009
- Click
here to view Mary Gordon's Report of the Pilot Phase of the Special
Educational Needs Initiative in Youthreach January 2007 to June
2008
(850 KB).
23-03-2009
- Does your centre
need to engage an External Authenticator to assess FETAC modules?
Visit the FETAC
website for a list of authenticators and the areas of learning they
have expertise in.
06-03-2009
- Have you heard
about the Drive for Life Programme? In brief, it is a road safety
awareness programme that aims
to change the mindset of young people BEFORE they get out on
the road. Visit the www.drivesafe4life.com
website for more information.
05-03-2009
- The National
Association of Travellers Centres
(NATC) is changing its name to more accurately reflect the work it does
as an organisation. They need your help! Click
here to find out more.
04-03-2009
- "Cant Turn
Back"is a book which honours and revitalises an appreciation
of Cant the Traveller language. "Cant Turn Back"
was published recently and is available from info@kidsown.ie
or good bookshops nationwide. Click
here to read an article about it in IN2, NYCIs annual
publication of youth arts practice.
24-02-2009
02-02-2009
- An online forum
for tutors delivering FETAC courses has been created - this site is
for tutors or anyone wishing to discuss the delivery of FETAC courses.
Go to www.fetaconline.ie
to view.
30-01-2009
- Do you need help
carrying out Learner Reviews - as part of the Centre Development
Planning Process or the Internal Centre Evaluation Process? Click
here to view the QFI document "Consultation with Learners".
19-01-2009
- National Traveller
MABS is part of the national network of Money Advice and Budgeting
Services around the country that offer free, confidential and independent
services for people in debt or in danger of getting into debt. Click
here to visit their website.
08-01-2009
- Read up on the
latest news and developments from the Children Acts Advisory Board
in their winter news bulletin which you can download from the CAAB
website.
02-01-2009
- In November 2009
a number of Travellers will be joining James O'Leary, the CEO of NATC
on a working trip to South Africa. They will be part of the Niall
Mellon team who will be building homes in the Cape Town or Gauteng
region. Click here
to find out more.
See our Archived News Pages - 5
- 4 - 3
- 2 - 1
for Other Items of Interest.
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