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 Tipperary Institute Labour Party Cllr Emer Costello announced that “The Lord Mayor’s Commission on Employment” has successfully joined forces with the Tipperary Institute to secure 20 places for unemployed craft-workers in the Dublin City Council Administrative Area in an exciting project CESBEM II (Competence Enhancement in Sustainable Building Through European Mobility).
The CESBEM II Project has received European funding under the Lifelong Learning, Leonardo Da Vinci (People in the Labour Market) Programme.
CESBEM II is aimed at those in the construction Sector and provides upskilling in the field of energy efficiency in buildings. Training will be hosted by *KOMZET Germany, Centre of Vocational Excellence in Energy Efficiency in Buildings, with a special emphasis on timber construction. The training in Germany is planned to last for 2 weeks. Twenty people from Dublin will participate in the project which will commence in February 2011. Preparation for participants will consist of approximately 40 hours training in German language and culture.
Application forms are available from the Economic Development Department, Floor 3, Block 4, Civic Offices, D8. ( Tel : 222 0100 or email : edu@dublincity.ie ) or can be downloaded here
The closing date for completed applications is 13th December, 2010.
Support Provided
The following support will be provided to participants ;
– Travel Costs
– Accommodation and Subsistence Costs
– Language and Cultural Training
– Technical Training Costs
Tipperary Institute will provide all travel documents (tickets etc.) and work with KOZMET to arrange accommodation and subsistence facilities. Participants will NOT be able to make their own travel or accommodation arrangements as these will all be managed by Tipperary Institute and KOZMET.
Tipperary Institute Student’s Union will present local TD Michael Lowry with a petition of over 500 signatures from students, who are opposing proposed cuts to Higher Education in the December Budget.
Delegates from the local students’ union will present Deputy Lowry with the petition at his constituency office on Abbey Road in Thurles at 2.00pm on Monday November 15th next.
USI is now intensifying its campaign against registration fee hikes and decreases to the student maintenance grant by urging students nationwide to lobby their local TDs ahead of the upcoming Budget.
The vast majority of students from the Institute travelled to Dublin last week for the national protest march organised by the Union of Students in Ireland (USI).
The students of Tipperary Institute refuse to be easy targets in the Budget and are sending a clear message to elected representatives that education is the key to Ireland’s economic recovery.
USI will continue to campaign tirelessly against any cuts to Higher Education, which will mean further devastation to the Irish economy.
Darragh Scott, President of Tipperary Institute, stated:
“The students at Tipperary Institute are strongly opposed to any further increases in the already inflated Registration Fee. If the fee is hiked any more, many students at this college will be forced to abandon education. This petition was drawn up in an attempt to drive home the message that local students just simply cannot afford to pay any more money at the start of each college year. They are already struggling to meet the costs of their third level education in the current recession.”
Gary Redmond, USI President, stated:
“The students of Tipperary Institute are anxious about possible cuts to education in the upcoming Budget. Many local students are highly dependent on the student maintenance grant to cover the costs of going to college. If the Government decide to cut the student maintenance grant, or hike up the registration fee next month, many of these students will have no choice but to drop out of their courses. By presenting Michael Lowry with this petition, we are asking him to support the students of Tipperary, and the students of Ireland, by preserving existing third level education in planning this Budget.”
Regarding the aforementioned Mr Gary Redmond, an image depicting him among members of Ógra Fianna Fail UCD, with Thurles born Mary Hanifin TD, next to a banner encouraging students to ‘VOTE FIANNA FÁIL FOR JOBS’ has now embarrassingly surfaced. Since recent shocking events outside the Department of Finance, and Mr Redmond’s total refusal to condemn claimed assaults made upon his own student membership, serious questions about the true ideology of Mr. Redmond’s sincerity in supporting the student cause, now greatly abound.
If you are unemployed and have not secured paid work, a work experience programme could give you an edge when applying for jobs. If you are an employer, a work placement participant can bring valuable talents to your business.
Date: 9th November 2010.
Time: 9:00am – 6:00pm
North Tipperary LEADER Partnership invite you to an information event on Work Experience Opportunities, as part of a local attempt to support businesses and job-seekers during the present economic downturn which is being experienced in North Tipp.
Speakers from FÁS and Begin Again work experience programmes will provide an overview on the opportunities available, process applications and offer advice.
Programme Of Days Events .
9.00 – 9.30am: Sign in at reception of Nenagh Arts Centre, Town Hall, Banba Square, Nenagh.
9.30 -10.30am: Information Meeting with Employers, (Chaired by Sean Crowley, North Tipperary LEADER Partnership.)
Overview of the introduction by government of Work Experience Programmes.
• Presentation by representative of FÁS.
• Questions and Answers. (facilitated by Gearoid Fitzgibbon)
• Presentation by representative of Begin Again TM.
• Employer Questions and Answers. (facilitated by Gearoid Fitzgibbon)
• Employers Perspective, Tom Ryan. (Employer who is participating in the FAS Work Experience Programme.)
Staff will be available to answer individual employer questions and sign up interested participants
11.30-12noon: Sign in at reception of Nenagh Arts Centre.
12.00-1.00pm: Information Meeting with Job-seekers. (Chaired by Cllr. Tom Moylan, Nenagh Town Council and North Tipperary LEADER Partnership Social Inclusion Subcommittee).
Overview of the introduction by government of Work Experience Programmes.
• Presentation by representative of FÁS.
• Questions & Answers (facilitated by Gearoid Fitzgibbon)
• Presentation by representative of Begin AgainTM
• Questions & Answers (facilitated by Gearoid Fitzgibbon)
• Participants Perspective, James Masterson
Staff again will be available to answer individual questions and sign up interested participants.
Note: Exploring Options Series Work Experience Opportunities is funded through the Local Community Development Programme of the Department of Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs and is administered locally by North Tipperary LEADER Partnership.
Those of you, our valued 194,522 readers, who doubt our claim that present Government Ministers actually rush to read our blogs every morning, (as soon as they clock in.) please now take note. I am referring of course to our recent blog entitled “Integrated Plan Generating 300,000 Jobs A Fairytale“.
More than 1,800 schools will wake up this morning to the unbelievable news that they are to receive grants worth almost €10 million in total. (Less than the National Lottery prize this week) to help reduce their water usage, and save on bills of €3m annually, paid to local councils.
 Water Storage Tank Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills, Mary Coughlan (Great on the maths, our Donegal friend) will announce today that department officials will contact 1,823 schools with €9.75m of our taxes, offering up to €5,348 per school, to cover the costs of installing percussion spray taps, thermostatic mixing valves and water displacement devices. Of course she forgot to include, in her plans, provision for roof rain water storage which would assist in conservation and a reduction in flooding. Obviously John Gormley wasn’t consulted about the action plan, prior to the announcement. Big into water conservation our John – or was it water charges – I forget.
Our Tánaiste Mary Coughlan stated: “I would ask schools to ensure that they get best value for money on prices for jobs in the more competitive construction market. These works will reduce the water charges being paid by schools and I am delighted to be able to provide boards of management and trustees with a means to do so.” No Mary, pet, we the taxpayers are delighted to be able to provide school boards of management and trustees with a means to do so.
Now Mary while you are on the subject of water, could you please sort out something else, the standing charges for water, applied by various local authorities.
Example: The standing charges in different local authority areas vary widely for some, as yet, unknown reason. Standing charges vary widely, from €212 in Thurles born Mary Hanafin’s own constituency of Dun-Laoghaire/Rathdown, to a humble €100 a year in our own Thurles Town. Schools in Co Mayo are paying 0.91 cent per cubic metre for their water supply compared to Roscommon Co Council who charge €2.39 per cubic metre.
Forget the digital projectors, white boards and teacher’s laptops Mary. Check first if the teacher can send an e-mail and secondly check if broadband is actually available. Once this information is established, now use the remaining €19 m of that recent €20m school technology fund to get the water sorted and reduce, for the short term at least, our rising flood water and rising unemployment numbers.
Why do I have to spell everything out for you, now get on with it, or I will be taking that trip to Áras an Uachtaráin and you know what that means.
Vocational Education Committee’s (VEC) ( Coiste Gairmoideachais) are a Irish statutory local education body that administers some secondary education and most adult education here in the state. VEC’s were originally created by the Vocational Education Act 1930, as successors to the Technical Instruction Committees established by the Agriculture and Technical Instruction (Ireland) Act 1899.
 Mary Coughlan TD The original purpose of the committees was to administer continuation and technical education for 14 to 16 year-olds and were charged with the duty of setting up and maintaining Vocational Schools.
This month the Department of Education and Skills announced that the number of VEC’s are to be reduced from 33 to 16 by amalgamation. In relation to the county of Tipperary the amalgamation of our two VECs will be as follows:-
North Tipperary amalgamated with County Clare.
South Tipperary amalgamated with City of Waterford and County Waterford.
The McCarthy Report An Bord Snip Nua recommended that the number of VEC’s be reduced from 33 to 22 countrywide, but the Minister for Education and Skills Mary Coughlan TD has now reduced the numbers down to a total of 16.
It is interesting to note that these changes did not effect the current Ministers for Education, Mary Coughlan TD’s own constituents in County Donegal, nor indeed the former Minister for Education, Bartholomew “Batt” O’Keeffe TD’s own constituents in County Cork.
I am at pains at this stage to point that both Batt and Moll, in this action, would not be attempting to curry favour with their local electorate, since both will loose their seats in the forthcoming elections anyway. Both TD’s as we know are committed to promoting equity and inclusion not to mention lifelong learning, while providing education that is relevant to personal, social, cultural and the economic needs of England, Australia, USA and Canada, since no jobs are available here in Ireland.
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