UCC Certificate in Contemporary Living for young people with ID/ASD.

UCC’s  Certificate in Contemporary Living is for young people with ID/ASD. Students from ASD units in secondary schools have previously taken up the Certificate. We are holding an information evening on April, 6^th and parents and students are most welcome to attend. Further information can be found athttp://www.ucc.ie/en/appsoc/news/fullstory-623305-en.html .

WIT CAO info night and President's Scholarship

WIT will hold a CAO information evening on Tuesday, April 5th from 6 to 8pm. More info at www.wit.ie/cao.

President's Scholarship
From September 2016, the institute is launching a new scholarship scheme which rewards young people who have shown a capacity to shape a better society. The programme will see five exceptional students being awarded scholarships across WIT's five academic schools. The programme will be launched at the open evening. More info on wit.ie/cao

UCD Summer School

UCD Summer School will take place in June 2016. More info on www.ucd.ie/myucd/summerschool

Waterford College of Further Education

Closing date for second round interviews will be Friday 8th April, 2016. Interviews will take place in April.
Further info on www.wcfe.ie

ESB announces 300 new apprenticeships

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/esb-announces-300-new-apprenticeships-663388.html

Waterpark students visit Dutch universities event at Fota Resort Hotel

22 fifth year students from Waterpark attended the Dutch universities event at Fota Island Resort Hotel this evening accompanied by Ms. Phelan and Mr. O'Reilly. 'Well done Waterpark'!

Overseas universities event RDS

See www.thestudentworld.com/2016-dublin

Irish Times article on study abroad

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/college-on-the-continent-it-s-less-about-grades-or-points-1.2558654

Colaiste Cathal Naofa, Dungarvan Open Day

Takes place on Wednesday afternoon, March 9th  from 2 to 5pm
More info on www.ccndungarvan.com

Upcoming Events in NUI Galway

Spring Open Day
Sat. April 16th, 10am to 3pm

Summer Schools
Hands-on, interactive summer schools in Business, Computing/IT, Engineering, Law, Nursing and Science. See www.nuigalway.ie/summer-schools

TY Taster Days for Arts
Taking place on Wed. 20th and Thurs. 21st of April 9:15 to 3pm

Naughton Scholarship 2016

The Naughton scholarship was established to support exceptional students from around Ireland and to promote the study of engineering, science and technology at Third Level education. Last year, the number of students was 29.
Valued at between 5 and E20,000, the closing date this year is May 8th.
For more info, see www.thenaughtonfoundation.ie

Careers in Engineering event hosted by WIT, Saturday March 5th

WIT will be hosting a 'careers in engineering' event on Saturday March 5th from 10 to 1pm
Venue: WIT Main Campus.
More info at #ThinkWaterford Engineering Showcase

WIT School of Architecture Information Morning @ the Granary

An information morning for interested second-level students will take place at the WIT School of Architecture at the Granary on Saturday March 19th from 11 to 1pm

WIT event on Tuesday, March 1st

On Tuesday, March 10th I attended a reception organised by the Director of Waterford Institute of Technology where Guidance Counsellors and Principals were invited to discuss ways in which second-level schools and WIT could establish a closer relationship.
Many thanks to Willie Donnelly for his kind invitation. 

Information on Third Level education in the Netherlands

During the spring mid-term, I visited some universities in the Netherlands along with some other
Guidance colleagues from Ireland

Here are a few posts from Twitter:
 Updates on Twitter @pauloRe77

Link to YouTube clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwkfsqGp3qo


Hanse University presentations (copy and paste the links)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/54gvmxqktl1b20j/VIDEO0007.mp4?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/yhsg0f7ror3jcef/VIDEO0008.mp4?dl=0

Some PowerPoint presentations:


 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0duQRMWu78NQ0lxb0t1RlhRT3M/view?usp=sharing

or

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0duQRMWu78NLUtvVmFSOUdFREU/view?usp=sharing


I will be bringing some Fifth Year students to visit an event being opened by the Dutch
ambassador at Fota Island Hotel on March 10th. More information at:

 https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/omg-were-going-dutch-2-cork-tickets-20779227228

Link to main website for applying to courses in Dutch Universities:
 http://info.studielink.nl/en/studenten/Pages/Default.aspx