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Foróige’s Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) programme works with Donegal ETB’s schools to enable young people to become entrepreneurs. It gives them the opportunity to design, create and implement a working business whether that be profit making or a social enterprise. Young people are enabled to be innovative and are…

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Employee welfare is an important aspect of Donegal ETB’s staff support mechanisms and this is provided through our Employee Welfare Officer Marie Donnelly. But what exactly does this entail? In this blog Marie tells us more about it. Donegal ETB is fully committed to the welfare and wellbeing of each…

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This month (September 2023) our Further Education and Training (FET) Service launched a new student counselling support service provided by Spectrum Life and managed by our Adult Guidance and Information Service. But what does this service look like and how will it support FET students? In this blog our Adult…

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Each year we provide induction training for new post-primary teachers, but what does that process involve? Our Director of Schools, Dr Martin Gormley, tells us more about it in this blog. The induction process for new post-primary teachers in Donegal Education and Training Board (ETB) is an essential step in…

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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 evening class student Arlene Gallagher has done. She recently completed…

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Donegal Education and Training Board (ETB) marked its tenth anniversary on 1 July and in this blog, Chief Executive (CE) Anne McHugh reflects over the first decade of this new organisation and some of the many highlights. 01 July 2013 was a hot and sunny day in Donegal as we…

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Did you know that Physical Education (PE) is a Leaving Certificate exam subject? We deliver it in nine* of our fifteen schools including Mulroy College in Milford and in this blog, PE teacher Ciaran Mc Elwaine tells us more about it. Allowing students the opportunity to study Physical Education as…

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Our Further Education and Training (FET) Service creates, collects and utilises a lot of data. But what does that involve and why does it do that? In this blog, FET Systems and Data Reporting Officer Anne Barron tells us more about it.  Donegal ETB’s FET Service uses a national software…

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