Joanne Whitelock is the Quality Assurance Coordinator for our Further Education and Training (FET) Service. In this blog, she tells us what Quality Assurance means and provides some examples of how it works in practice. What is Quality Assurance? “Quality is not…
Environmental education is an important aspect of our school curriculums. Crana College has had a Green Schools Committee in place since 2016. It is coordinated by teachers Brendan and Louise Duffy and in this blog Louise tells us a bit…
Our Principals and Deputy Principals play a key senior leadership role in our school communities. Shane McArt was appointed as a Deputy Principal to Deele College in Raphoe just over a year ago and in this blog he reflects on…
Valerie Lewis is an Educational Policy and Development Officer at Education and Training Boards Ireland (ETBI), advocating for and supporting over 250 post-primary schools in the ETB sector, including our fifteen schools. She also leads out on the ETBI Take…
The Erasmus student exchange Programme was established by the European Union in 1987 and many of our schools and centres have participated in it over the years. Erasmus+ runs from 2021-2027 and our Arranmore Island school, Gairmscoil Mhic Diarmada, has…
Next month our Director of Further Education and Training (FET) Cróna Gallagher will retire after twenty-three years of service. In our second April blog, she reflects on how the Service has developed in that time. I started working as an…
On 31 March we launched our new Strategy Statement and, in this blog, our Chief Executive Anne McHugh tells us more about it. Donegal ETB’s 2022-2026 Strategy Statement sets out the high-level priorities and objectives that we aim to achieve…
Emilia Niewulska is one of our Adult Literacy Organisers and also a committee member of the county-wide Read Donegal (Read DL) initiative which is currently underway. In this blog she tells us more about this reading initiative which we’ve supported since…
Tá Dolores Mhic Géidigh ag obair mar Eagraí Litearthachta do Sheirbhísí Oideachais Leanúnaigh agus Oiliúna i nGort a’ Choirce. Tá sí mar ionadaí ag ETB Dhún na nGall ar choiste stiúrtha Bhreacadh. Insíonn sí tuilleadh dúinn faoin tionscadal sa bhlag…
Digital Media Literacy is one of the many short courses offered to our Junior Cycle students. In our second February blog, Finn Valley College third year students Charlie Ward and Sarah O Donnell tell us more about one aspect of…