The Community Education Support Programme within our Further Education and Training (FET) Service supports thousands of students around the county and its islands each year. We blogged about this in January 2023, highlighting the wide range of projects supported by…
Caoimhe Pollard was a First Year student in our largest school, the Abbey Vocational School in Donegal Town in September 2023. As she enters second year, she reflects back on what she expected when she moved to a bigger school,…
Tá Éiteas ETB á rolladh amach ag Bord Oideachais agus Oiliúna (ETB) Dhún na nGall thar a chúig scoil dara leibhéal agus choláiste dhéag. Tá sé seo mar chuid de thionscnamh náisiúnta níos leithne a bhaineann le gach ETB. Is…
The European Union’s Erasmus+ Programme is the EU’s programme to support education, training, youth and sport in Europe. The 2021-2027 programme places a strong focus on social inclusion, the green and digital transitions, and promoting young people’s participation in democratic…
This year, during national ETB Week 2024 (11-15 March), we held our first-ever Debate Forum for our post-primary schools. This will now become an annual event on Donegal ETB’s event calendar but what does debating involve and what are its…
Our Further Education and Training (FET) Service supports thousands of people each year to achieve their career dreams and goals. In this blog, one of our former childcare students, Shannon Shelby Driscoll, who has recently qualified as a teacher, tells…
Our Further Education and Training (FET) Service provides evening classes each Spring and Autumn which many people use to upskill to help them in their current career, change career or start a new career and this is exactly what former…
Julia Meiner, who lives in Dresden in Germany, recently spent three weeks with the Donegal Music Education Partnership on an Erasmus+ work placement. The Erasmus+ programme helps students and recent graduates to develop work skills, improve their use of another…
For those young people for whom school doesn’t work out, our Further Education and Training (FET) Service provides an alternative route for gaining qualifications through the Youthreach programme, based in six centres across the county. In our first November blog,…
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…