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Community education projects throughout Mayo, Sligo and Leitrim have received funding under the Mitigating against Educational Disadvantage Fund (MAEDF). The projects will be funded from an overall fund of €6.5 million which was announced by Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris TD. The fund is administered by SOLAS, the Further Education and Training Authority and the 16 local Education and Training Boards. The aim of the fund is to support community education for adult learners, who have…

With over 1000 new Special Needs Assisting jobs announced in the recent budget MSLETB are responding by offering a Special Needs Assisting course commencing in January in Carrick-on-Shannon.  Come along to our Information Session on Monday 10th January 2022 at 10am in the Carrick-on-Shannon FET Centre, Market Yard, Carrick on Shannon, Co. Leitrim.  For further information please contact Naomi on [email protected]

The Advanced Certificate in Early Learning and Care (Level 6) and Certificate in Early Learning and Care (Level 5) are new awards that will replace the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Award at Level 5 and 6. This will be fully effective from August 2023. If you are currently or have recently studied modules under the Early Childhood Care and Education Awards and have NOT achieved your full award, it is advisable that you actively seek to complete all the required outstanding…

COMMUNITY EDUCATION SCHEME 2022 Applications are invited from Community and Voluntary Groups based in Mayo, Sligo and Leitrim who wish to avail of grants under the above scheme. Community Education refers to adult education and learning, generally outside the formal education sector. It aims to empower and support communities. It is firmly community-based, with local groups taking responsibility for, and playing a key role in organising courses and deciding on programme content. The scheme enables disadvantaged adults to avail of community education at…

Mayo Social Inclusion Awareness Week MSLETB Community Education Team is delighted, in conjunction with ASIAM, to present an information session for Community groups in Mayo, asking the question:  What is Autism? – What is Autism and what is it not? – Building empathy for the Autism experience – Supporting Communication – Supporting Sensory Processing – Supporting Social Interaction & Social Imagination – Supporting Self-Regulation & Anxiety – Building an Inclusive Culture – Q & A   Date of Event: 12th of October 2021 Time:…

Two young further education and training (FET) learners are calling on Leaving Certificate students to consider post leaving certificate (PLC) courses, apprenticeships and traineeships for their next step. “The main reason I chose to do a PLC in nursing in North Connaught College was because I was just gone 17 before doing my leaving cert. I still felt I was quite young to be going to college and very unsure about what I wanted to do. I didn’t want to dedicate my time…