Angela McElhinney is one of our Further Education and Training (FET) Service teachers and an AHEAD Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Badge Facilitator. This year she’s leading a Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Innovation Project that’s working to promote the use…
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…
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…
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…
Pauline Doherty is an ICT and Accounts Teacher in our Milford Further Education and Training (FET) Centre and is a member of the Community of Practice team that developed a Digital Citizenship website for both our post-primary and FET students…
We directly manage fifteen of the county’s twenty-seven post-primary schools and are a trustee partner for a further eight Community and Comprehensive schools. Our school Principals play a vital leadership role in managing our school communities but what does this…