Month: August 2021

BA honours in Geography and Outdoor Education

BA honours in Geography and Outdoor Education

This programme combines the study of the Geography, Landscape and Adventure. Students explore and examine the geology, archaeology and ecology of the Irish landscape and realise the potential of adventure tourism, green exercise and nature therapy.  Mayo’s mountain’s and the wild Atlantic coast provide an ideal location for the fieldwork elements of the course.  Students…

Drama Education at Griffith College

Drama Education at Griffith College

By Laura Pomphrett Higher Diploma in Arts in Drama Education Graduate I have always had a love of drama and so in 2017, I decided to complete the Higher Diploma in Arts in Drama Education at Griffith College.  Some of my fondest memories from school involved performing in plays and musicals and I firmly believe…

Narrative 4 Empathy Education

Narrative 4 Empathy Education

“Empathy education is needed in our secondary schools to help our young people develop into caring, happy successful adults,” says Dr Sara Jane Flynn, a senior child and educational psychologist who has recently joined the team at Narrative 4 Ireland.  The registered Irish charity replicated a US model of empathy education in 2016 and have…

Online career assessment with ETC Consult

Online career assessment with ETC Consult

We have been asking our clients for 36 years to finish the following sentence: “I would love a job that………………” The most common responses have been:……would enable me to help others……would allow me to use my strengths……would be interesting……would offer me a challenge……would not be the same every day……would pay well Our new, online Career…

Liberties College – the Pathway to YOUR future

Liberties College – the Pathway to YOUR future

Established well over 50 years ago, Liberties College has earned its well-deserved reputation as a major player in the area of Further Education and Training in Dublin. Situated in the heart of the Liberties and just a stone’s throw from bustling Grafton Street, we attract students from all corners of Ireland as well as from…

St Nicholas Montessori for adults with dementia

St Nicholas Montessori for adults with dementia

For the past 50 years, St Nicholas Montessori Society has been training and equipping Montessori professionals in Ireland with the hopes of bringing professionalisation to the early years sector and transforming education in the Primary education sector and beyond.  Now, SMSI is expanding the scope of Montessori to encompass all ages, through the new groundbreaking…

Want to go to college? Don’t have enough points? Sorted…come to DFEi

Want to go to college? Don’t have enough points? Sorted…come to DFEi

When summer is over, seaside towns have more to offer than ice-cream cones and candy floss, and the Victorian seaside town of Dún Laoghaire is no exception. In the quiet end, bordering on leafy Monkstown, a restrained revolution is playing out in a modest building on Cumberland Street.  The warriors are students and teachers carrying…