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…
Sean Quinn is originally from Scotland and is Head of Sales at Highland Radio, having worked in sales and marketing for over twenty years, gaining huge business experience while working within the media, telecoms, financial and new business enterprise sectors.…
Earlier this year Donegal TD Thomas Pringle introduced a bill to Dáil Éireann calling for a referendum on lowering the voting age in Ireland to 16. As part of the preparation for this bill he consulted with the Student Council in…
Ava McLoughlin is a 16 year old Transition Year (TY) student from our Donegal Town school, the Abbey Vocational School. She is the owner of Irish Tweedscapes. At the start of TY, she began her business which recently won the…
Éinín O’Boyle has just finished her first year in one of our Buncrana schools, Crana College, making history along with all our first years this year, by starting post-primary school in the middle of a global pandemic. In this blog…
Liam McSheffrey is a farmer in North Inishowen and when farming administration went online a number of years ago, he (and his fellow farmers) needed to undertake some computer training to help them with all the forms and other paperwork.…
Jennifer Rankin is the Director of Nursing at the Lake House Nursing Home in Portnablagh in Dunfanaghy (pictured on the left). Over the last year she has encouraged and supported her staff to achieve QQI qualifications through our Recognition of…
Edith Ward Tucker is a Transition Year student in Coláiste na Carraige. In this blag (blog) she tells us about life in her school. Coláiste na Carraige is ainm don scoil a fhreastalaím air. Tá an scoil suite ar an…