Shining a light on further education and training opportunities

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Each year SOLAS invests approximately €800 million of funding in Further Education and Training (FET)

ByIn 2013, the state agency SOLAS was established, replacing the former agency FÁS. SOLAS was founded under the Further Education and Training Act, as an agency of the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science.

Now, at the halfway point through the strategy, there has been significant progress, notwithstanding the not so small matter of a global pandemic. Despite the momentum that kept SOLAS and FET running during the pandemic, Brownlee acknowledges there were some who lost out on further education and training opportunities. “However, we are aware that some learners were ‘lost’ to FET during the pandemic because of the move to wholly online learning for some periods and the general uncertainty and other life-affecting issues which the pandemic caused.

Recognition of 14 Ukrainian qualifications and direct translation of these to Irish awards from Levels 3-10 on the Irish NFQ system A system through which previous qualifications and learning for applicants to apprenticeships and positions within the construction industry will be recognised. In relation to the inclusion pillar for the final two years of the 2020-2024 strategy, “the focus will be on implementing the 10-year Adult Literacy for All Strategy, transforming provision and supports for learners, and the development of a community education framework”, according to Brownlee.

 

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How about shining a light on Irish people working to rent crap rooms for the rest of their lives while foreign people are handed houses and apartments and foreign people in need are prioritized for housing ahead of Irish people? That Irish people are being run in to the ground?

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