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Delivering further education and training to over 25,000 learners, making music education accessible for young people across the region, €100 million capital programme investment in new schools and extensions, 30,000 young people supported by youth work function, limerick and clare education and training board is the state education and training authority for the limerick and clare region. it is one of 16 statutory regional education authorities established by the education and training boards act 2013..

It delivers educational services to over 38,000 students/learners across the region annually and has responsibility for 3 Community National Schools, 1 Community Special School, 17 Community Colleges, 28 College of Further Education and Training campuses, and works with community groups in almost 300 locations across the region.

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Spittle, Glenroe, Co Limerick, V35 DA36 T: E: [email protected] Web: glenroeschool

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Limerick College of Further Education is a long-established, state-funded and administered further education college.

It is one of many centres of education run by Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board. LCFE was known until 2008 as Limerick Senior College.

LCFE offers Further Education (Post Leaving Certificate)  programmes and Professional qualifications in a variety of  disciplines and caters for approximately 1200 full-time and 3000  part-time learners. Its campuses are situated in the South-East of  the city on Mulgrave Street (a short distance from the city centre)  and also in East Limerick at Cappamore.

Limerick College of Further Education aims to provide high quality internationally-recognised educational programmes, delivered in a  modern dynamic environment by a highly qualified and committed  team of teachers. Programmes are accredited by a number of  prestigious validating bodies. The approval of LCFE by these bodies  is a further benchmark of the high quality of courses, facilities,  tuition and support structures on offer.

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Whatever your interest, we have the pathway for you Sometimes, finding the best in you takes a bit of exploration. Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board offers hundreds of full-time and part-time Further Education and Training learning pathways at our multi-campus College of Further Education and Training across Limerick and Clare and over 300 other locations in the community. Further Education and Training helps you get real skills for employment. We deliver programmes to over 25,000 learners in Limerick and Clare every year. These learning pathways are for you if you want to enhance your opportunity for employment, up-skill while in employment, help you progress to further studies or develop a new skill.

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Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board is the state education and training authority for the Limerick and Clare region in Ireland. It is one of 16 statutory regional education authorities established by the Education and Training Boards Act 2013. It was created following the amalgamation of three Vocational Education Committees, which provided post-primary, adult and community education in Limerick City, County Limerick, and County Clare since 1902. The authority was established on 1st July 2013 and assumed responsibility from SOLAS of two former Training Centres in Raheen, Limerick and Shannon, Co. Clare on 1st July 2014.

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Further education and training (FET) courses

What is further education and training (fet), finding the right fet course, further education and training qualifications, education and training supports if you are unemployed, other education and training supports, financial supports.

Further education and training (FET) covers any education and training after second-level education ( post-primary school ) and up to third-level education (higher level education).

FET is for adults and young people aged over 16.

You can still participate in a FET course, if you left school and didn’t complete your second-level education.

FET can help you get new skills if you are:

• Leaving school
• Looking for your first job
• Changing direction in your career

You can choose from many FET courses and programmes.

FET includes:

• Apprenticeships
• Traineeships
• Post Leaving Cert (PLC) courses
• Community education
• Adult literacy and numeracy skills

There is a wide range of further education and training (FET) courses available.

You can choose from:

• Full-time courses , or
• Part-time courses .

Qualifax has a database of all further education courses. It also has the information you need to make an informed choice about your education, training and career path. How to qualify and what training allowances are available vary from course to course, so check the details of each course carefully.

You can also get more information on FET courses, how to access them and the financial supports available on The Right Course portal on Gov.ie.

Help to find the right course

If you need help finding a FET course, you can contact the Adult Educational Guidance and Information Service .

This service is available to:

• Everyone over 18
• People over 16 who are not in full-time education.

The service prioritises people who are unemployed.

Read more about returning to education .

The National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ) allows the different levels of qualifications to be compared. There are 10 Levels on the NFQ. FET courses are provided at Levels 1 to 6 on the NFQ.

Progression to third-level education

If you have a qualification at NFQ Level 5 and Level 6, you can progress to third-level education with the Higher Education Links Scheme .

The tertiary education programme is a new pathway to third level education. You start in a further education institution and progress to a higher education institution to complete a degree.

You can also access third-level education as a mature student .

If you are unemployed, you can access further education and training through a number of programmes:

Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme (VTOS)

If you are an unemployed or getting certain social welfare payments, the Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme (VTOS) can help you to return to full-time education.

VTOS courses are particularly suitable if you have been unemployed or out of school for some time.

Back to Education Training Programme

The Back to Education Training Programme can help you to return to part-time or full-time education and keep your social welfare payment or get a Back to Education Allowance .

Work Placement Experience Programme (WPEP)

The Work Placement Experience Programme (WPEP) can provide you with work experience if you have never had a job, or if you have lost your job.

You must be getting a qualifying social welfare payment for a minimum time. If you qualify, you will get a weekly WPEP allowance.

Training Support Grant (TSG)

The Training Support Grant (TSG) is available to people on certain qualifying payments or schemes , including the Work Placement Experience Programme.

It funds quick access to short-term training, including courses up to and including QQI level 6.

You may get a TSG if your Employment Personal Adviser finds you can’t start a job without:

• Getting an immediate skill
• Getting or renewing a certification or permit.

You must apply for a TSG through your Employment Personal Adviser or Job Coach.

Fastrack to IT

FIT (Fastrack to IT) provides information technology training for people who are getting certain social welfare payments or signing for credits .

Courses include office administration, web design and programming, broadband communications and PC maintenance.

The Traineeship Programme

The Traineeship Programme provides training and work experience. The duration of the programme depends on your area of training . You may keep your social welfare payment or get a FET training allowance.

To get a FET training allowance, you must be entitled to a qualifying social welfare payment, such as Jobseeker's Allowance or Jobseeker's Benefit.

Specific Skills Training

Specific Skills Training lets you learn new work-related skills. The courses on offer vary from centre to centre and from year to year, with different levels of certification.

The courses are run during the day and in the evenings. Priority on daytime courses is given to unemployed people. A day course is free to all unemployed people, even if you are not getting a social welfare payment. An evening course is not free unless you are getting a social welfare payment.

You may be able to keep your social welfare payment or get a FET training allowance if you are doing a day course. To get a FET training allowance, you must be entitled to a qualifying social welfare payment, such as Jobseeker's Allowance or Jobseeker's Benefit.

Local Training Initiative Programme (LTI)

Local Training Initiative Programme (LTI) is for people who are unemployed and finding it difficult to get a job. It is for people aged 18-35. Courses are full-time and lead to major awards on the NFQ at levels 3, 4 and 5.

For younger people

If you are aged between 15 and 20 and have left school without any formal qualifications, the Youthreach programme will provide you with opportunities for:

• Basic education
• Personal development
• Vocational training
• Work experience.

Community Training Centres (CTCs)

Community Training Centres (CTCs) are independent community-based organisations, which provide training and education for early school leavers, primarily aged between 16 and 21.

Courses are generally for one year, full-time, and lead to major awards on the NFQ at levels 3 and 4.

Online learning

eCollege is the national online learning service for further education and training.

Learn with NALA can help you improve your reading, writing, maths, and digital skills up to Level 3.

Accessing higher education

Tertiary education programme.

The tertiary education programme lets you start in a further education setting and progress to a higher education institution to complete a degree.

Springboard+

Springboard+ provides free higher education places for unemployed people. You can keep your social welfare payment for as long are you are entitled to it while you are participating on a Springboard+ course. If you are working, only level 6 courses are free.

If you are working

Skills for work.

Skills for Work can help you to improve the basic skills you need in the workplace such as literacy, numeracy, and IT skills.

The courses are 35 hours long and free of charge. It is delivered by the Educational and Training Boards for people in part-time or full-time employment.

Skillnet Ireland

Skillnet Ireland supports groups of private sector companies to set up training networks to deliver a range of accredited or industry-recognised programmes.

Skillnet Ireland offers some training to unemployed people . If you are unemployed, you will not pay for this training.

Depending on your situation, you may be able to access financial supports, such as:

• The Back to Education Programme
• The Back to Education Allowance
• Training allowances .

You can find out more about financial supports available to you from your local Citizens Information Centre .

Related documents

• Further Education and Training (FET) allowances If you get a place on a Further Education and Training (FET) training course you may be paid an allowance. 2387.9622
• Education, Training and Development Option You can take part in certain short education, training or development courses and keep your jobseeker's payment. Find out more. 1521.2074
• Further and higher education qualifications The system of validation of qualifications in further and higher education. 1345.0132

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Minor given the chance to return to education in County Limerick court

The young teen was involved in a burglary last year.

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A COUNTY Limerick juvenile, who was involved in a burglary in 2023, has been told by the court to re-engage with education and training opportunities.

The 15-year-old, who cannot be named, was involved in a house burglary, which resulted in a broken window causing €1,000 worth of damage on October 6, 2023.

Solicitor for the minor, Michael O’Donnell, told the court a comprehensive probation report had been handed in for his client and that he accepts that a window was broken, but it’s unclear whether or not he was a party to that or not.

“He accepts he was in the property and he should not have been - he was trespassing,” Mr O’Donnell told Newcastle West District Court.

He added that his client accepts that he was in the house “without consent” but added that he asserts there was no one in the house at the time.

Mr O’Donnell said that there has so far been a lack of engagement with education and training, as well as a “lack of structure and routine.”

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Probation and welfare services have agreed to engage with the teenager, on the condition that he engages with training or embarks on any that is offered.

The court heard that the boy has been, along with his family, engaging with a homeless action group and that they have effectively been “moved from A to B to C”, Mr O’Donnell said.

Judge Carol Ann Coolican said it’s “in his interest to engage with the Probation Services and re-engage with education and training.”

The judge acknowledged the comprehensive probation report and adjourned the case to July 23, remanding the minor on bail.

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Following Alan’s talk, Kiara O’Keeffe from Northern Trust Bank Limerick, facilitated a panel discussion. The panel members were Jennifer McKenna, STInt Industry Liaison Officer Intel, Seamus Keating,  Department of Education, Gerard Bennett, 2023  STInt Intern and Jackie Kehoe, Cyber Skills STInt Host 2024. 

The panel discussed the important role that AI will play in all aspects of our lives and how this will have an influence on education and industry. They also discussed the skills shortage in the STEM industry and how participating in an initiative like the STEM Teacher Internship Programme, can help address that issue. They highlighted how teacher participation in the STInt Programme can help the teachers encourage young people, especially girls, to choose STEM subjects in school. By doing an industry internship they can bring that experience back to their classroom and have real world examples to discuss with the learners. Finally, the panel discussed the opportunities available for education/industry partnerships and how these relationships need to evolve over time.  Panelists acknowledged how engaging with initiatives like the STEM Teacher Internship Programme unify learners, teachers, industry and the whole community.

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Judge halts further student loan forgiveness under part of Biden's new repayment plan

A federal judge on Monday temporarily barred the Education Department from allowing additional loan forgiveness under a key component of President Joe Biden 's student debt relief plan .

The judge's order halted the cancellation of federal student loans under the income-driven repayment plan known as SAVE after several states sued over the program.

The Biden administration is "preliminarily enjoined from any further loan forgiveness for borrowers under the Final Rule’s SAVE plan until such time as this Court can decide the case on the merits," U.S. District Judge John A. Ross wrote.

The SAVE plan came about after the Supreme Court last year rejected the Biden administration’s broader effort to address debt under its pandemic-era relief plan , which aimed to erase up to $20,000 in federal student debt for about 43 million borrowers.

Ross also rejected an effort by the Biden administration to dismiss the case, saying the states that brought the lawsuit had standing and "are likely to succeed on the merits of their argument that the early loan forgiveness provisions ... were promulgated in a manner exceeding the Secretary’s statutory authority," referring to the secretary of education.

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, representing one of the seven states that brought the lawsuit, lauded the ruling.

“By attempting to saddle working Missourians with Ivy League debt, Joe Biden is undermining our constitutional structure,” Bailey said in a statement. “Only Congress has the power of the purse, not the President. Today’s ruling was a huge win for the rule of law, and for every American who Joe Biden was about to force to pay off someone else’s debt.”

Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin said: "With Independence Day fast approaching, another court has reminded President Biden that he is not a king. He can’t go around Congress and unilaterally cancel student loans. He should have learned that from Schoolhouse Rock!"

Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach echoed his counterparts, saying in statement that the loan forgiveness plan is "not only unconstitutional, it’s unfair. Blue collar Kansas workers who didn’t go to college shouldn’t have to pay off the student loans of New Yorkers with gender studies degrees.”

The other states involved in the lawsuit are Florida, Georgia, North Dakota, Ohio and Oklahoma.

In their lawsuit, the states had asked the judge to declare that the program violated the separation of powers under the Constitution.

Ross said other aspects of the program, such as lowering monthly payments and limiting interest accrual, are benefiting borrowers and can continue, adding that the states that sued "have not shown that these provisions harm them."

In another blow to the administration's student debt relief plans, a federal judge blocked the Biden administration Monday from implementing parts of the program that are set to go into effect July 1.

U.S. District Judge Daniel D. Crabtree found that while Kansas and 10 other states that sued over the SAVE plan had not demonstrated irreparable harm from provisions already in effect, they had shown irreparable harm from forthcoming provisions. He granted their request for a preliminary injunction of aspects that have not yet been implemented. His order is set to go into effect Sunday night, allowing time for any appeals.

The 11 states had argued in their March lawsuit that the program violated the Constitution and the Administrative Procedures Act and that many of them suffered losses of state tax revenue because of the plan's provisions about student loan forgiveness.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre blasted the court rulings on Monday.

"We strongly disagree with today’s rulings on our SAVE Plan and the Department of Justice will continue to vigorously defend the SAVE Plan," she said in a statement. "It’s unfortunate that Republican elected officials and their allies have fought tooth and nail to prevent their constituents from accessing lower payments and a faster path to debt forgiveness — and that courts are now rejecting authority that the Department has applied repeatedly for decades to improve income-driven repayment plans."

In a separate statement, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona added that his department "has relied on the authority under the Higher Education Act three times over the last 30 years to implement income-driven repayment plans."

The Justice Department declined to comment on the rulings.

The Biden administration has forgiv e n significant amounts under the SAVE plan. Last month officials announced the approval of an additional $613 million in debt to be canceled for more than 54,000 borrowers under the plan.

The administration said last month that overall, 4.75 million people have benefited from debt cancellation actions and that it had approved $167 billion in loan forgiveness. The figures pertained to all administrative actions, not just the SAVE plan.

Zoë Richards is the evening politics reporter for NBC News.

Rebel project paused and shaped by Limerick’s hurling lessons

Chastening days in croke park at limerick’s hands have fed into cork’s recent evolution.

Two days in Croke Park, three years apart. What do they matter now? What did they mean then? For Limerick , it was their journey from maybe to definitely. And Cork ? Marooned on maybe.

Cork suffered. Limerick beat them in the 2018 All-Ireland semi-final when Cork were six points clear with eight minutes and 17 seconds of normal time remaining. They floored them in the 2021 All-Ireland final when Cork brought a knife to a gunfight and Limerick were halfway to being the greatest team of all time.

For Cork, it is tortuous to remember – on their way to where they are now, it would have been reckless to forget. The bloody cuts settled on their flesh as scars. Against future attacks the only viable defence was change. That took time.

For the last half a dozen seasons Limerick have held up a mirror to all-comers. Ultimately, that was the only reflection that mattered. How did Limerick make you look? How did they make you feel? What did they make you think? And think again?

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In John Kiely’s time, Cork and Clare are the only teams to have beaten Limerick home and away, in league and championship. Croke Park, though, was different: it was a neutral space that Limerick colonised and occupied. They planted their flag.

The 2018 match has a resonance still because of the elements that shaped it in the end. Cork’s game management failed them. Limerick were still working that stuff out, but they were cool down the stretch against Kilkenny in the quarter-final, and they didn’t blink when Cork put a gun to their heads. That kind of confirmation has a cumulative effect.

But it was in Cork’s hands. They dropped it.

“It was definitely the biggest regret of any game in my career that we didn’t hold on to win because I think we would have won the All-Ireland that year,” says Colm Spillane, the former Cork defender. “It’s one of those games you’d always regret.”

When Limerick fell six points behind Michael Duignan said in the RTÉ commentary that they would need a goal. The relationship in hurling between goals and points has changed profoundly in the last seven or eight years and Limerick were drivers of the new exchange rate. In the event, they scored seven points without reply.

“Croke Park feels like a big pitch when the other team has a lot of the ball and they’re winning puck-outs and you feel like the ball is hammering in on you the whole time,” says Spillane.

After Darragh Fitzgibbon burst through for a point in the 62nd minute Cork didn’t score from play again for the next 27 minutes, stoppage-time and extra-time included. They were swept out on a rip tide, unable to swim against it. In the middle of Limerick’s scoring burst Bill Cooper went down, looking for medical attention, nothing wrong with him except worry.

“I was just trying to slow it down,” Cooper says now, “but I don’t think the ref gave us too much time. It is very hard to turn momentum when you’re in the thick of it. You really need somebody to step up and get a score.”

Patrick Horgan hit the upright. Tim O’Mahony launched a speculative shot from 80 metres. No score. Duignan passed a remark on the screaming body language. “Cork are struggling for inspiration. Nobody went for that last puck-out at all. Who wants it the most?”

The sides were level in the second minute of stoppage-time when Nickie Quaid made his everlasting block on Séamus Harnedy. Overlooked in that moment was Limerick’s scramble defence. Quaid lunged at Harnedy from the edge of the small square, but lined up behind the Limerick goalkeeper were three Limerick defenders and right behind Harnedy was a fourth, desperately trying to make a hook. In the years that followed such portraits of resistance would be repeated in a thousand different poses.

The game was decided by subs. Limerick’s bench boost became a cliche soon afterwards but not yet. That day they contributed 2-6, 1-4 from play; Cork’s subs came up with a point.

Their lack of squad depth had been a recurring issue all season and that day it was unsustainable. Daniel Kearney and Harnedy, two of Cork’s best players, came off and went back on again. Kearney was plainly injured and in extra-time he was replaced for the second time.

“We never got going in extra-time,” says Spillane. “I’m not sure why. Maybe we were so deflated that we lost the lead or something. Daniel Kearney and Séamus Harnedy, in fairness to them they had played brilliant games and they brought them back on – something that doesn’t happen nowadays. We probably needed fresh legs.

“I had a tough afternoon. Probably the toughest match I played, to be honest. Aaron Gillane caught a couple of balls over me in the first half, but you were very wary of him getting in behind, so I probably gave him a bit too much space. I knew at the time he was a very good player but he showed afterwards how good he actually was.”

That was the thing: in 2018, nobody knew how good Limerick would become. It was unforeseeable. Unimaginable. By 2021, there were no mysteries. Limerick were a known quantity. Decipherable. Formidable. Forceful. Brilliant. Daunting. Overbearing.

Cork arrived in Croke Park with a head of steam. “We were after a cracking win against Kilkenny in the semi-final [after extra-time],” says Cooper. “You were going up with a bit of hope.”

Around Cork the hype was intoxicating. “It’s not making excuses, but I would put a lot down to the fact that Cork hadn’t been in an All-Ireland final in a long time [eight years],” says Dónal O’Grady, former Cork player and manager who was part of Cork’s backroom team that year. “Two weeks was a short time to come down from the match against Kilkenny and get back up again. That was a factor.”

Cork had reached Croke Park on a high calorie diet of pace and stickwork and all-out attack. It was exhilarating and one-dimensional. What they lacked, as a group, was aggression and power. There were a handful of exceptions but not nearly enough to tip the balance.

Cork were conscious of it. A week before the All-Ireland final they played an A versus B game in Fota Island where only one free was awarded. They were trying to condition themselves for the onslaught to come but that kind of simulation was beyond their capacity. They weren’t a team that played with force. They couldn’t inflict it on one another.

“I don’t think the way Cork trained before that match was anyway like the way Limerick trained,” says Brian Fitzgerald, who was part of Cork’s analysis team. “In the A versus B game, the B lads weren’t hitting them. I know in Limerick, the week before that final, they had a game in the Gaelic Grounds where the B team beat the A team by a point and there could have been a full-on brawl. When I worked with Munster [rugby], if Munster were up for a European match there was a fight that week in training.”

In terms of strength and conditioning Cork were years behind. O’Grady, who had spent time in Limerick a decade earlier, says S&C programmes were in place back then, from the academy teams upwards. He knew that wasn’t the case in Cork.

Christy O’Connor, the journalist and coach, was part of Cork’s backroom team that year as well. “I was over near the tunnel in Croke Park just at the time Limerick came out on to the field and I remember thinking, ‘The size of these lads, they’re absolutely massive.’ It just hit me there and then.”

The game was still alive after 15 minutes. “Cork are certainly not overawed at all by the occasion,” said Duignan in commentary. “For a young team to come here and start like this is very impressive.”

Less than 10 minutes later the game was mortally wounded. By half-time it was dead.

“I have a traffic-light system [on my computer] for different in-game stats,” says Fitzgerald. “Green, amber, red. Based on whatever the percentages were [for key metrics] my screen would turn different colours. That day, my whole screen literally went red [in the first half]. The first marker you will look at is workrate. I don’t know, maybe it was the occasion, maybe they were overawed.

“In the dressingroom at half-time the most you’ll probably be able to fix is one thing. I don’t think there was anything the Cork management could have done that day.”

According to Limerick’s internal statistics their players had made nearly 60 tackles in the first half and Cork had made about 20. Limerick had picked off 2-5 from turnovers. In the first half alone they had 10 different scorers. The 3-18 they racked up was the biggest first-half total in the history of All-Ireland finals.

“Cork are trying to pitch a tent in a hurricane,” said Donal Óg Cusack on RTÉ.

Alan Cadogan came on as a substitute, 12 minutes into the second half. “You knew coming on the game was over,” he says. “You still couldn’t give up or show the white flag, it was just about making the scoreline some bit respectable. It’s hard to believe that you’re actually thinking that way as a Cork player.

“They out-hurled us – physically, tactically, everything. They blew us out of the water. When you get to an All-Ireland final you want to do yourself justice. We didn’t do ourselves justice.”

In the flotsam of the wreckage there was very little to cling to. “The first 20 minutes,” says O’Grady, “weren’t too bad. We gave away a goal early on that was avoidable. We gave them the ball back. But in the second quarter they finished the game. We didn’t have the wherewithal to come back at them.

“When you were watching it, it reminded me of Bord Na nÓg [juvenile] matches long ago when a team would be well ahead and the referee would blow up early. I’d say that’s the way most people felt before the end of the game.”

The world keeps spinning. Cork needed to find a way back. Limerick were still the benchmark for everything. There was no way around them.

Where are Cork now? In the Gaelic Grounds last year Cork outscored Limerick by six points in the last 10 minutes and lost by a point; in Páirc Uí Chaoimh this year they outscored Limerick by six points in the last seven minutes and won by two. They had more shots than Limerick in this fixture for the first time in five years, according to O’Connor. Cork were aggressive. They won the puck-out battle. They didn’t play with fear. Or deference.

Their athletic profile is better. Their panel is deeper. Their tackle numbers have improved: not uniformly, not every day, not to Limerick’s level; but better. Against Limerick, all that stuff gets you to the starting line. No further.

Cork suffered. They needed to learn. Change. With humility.

Limerick showed them.

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