PLC Courses

St Louis Community School in Kiltimagh, Co. Mayo, has a long tradition of providing full and part time courses for school leavers and adults. The college offers daytime courses in 5 fields (Sport, Childcare, Hairdressing & Beauty,Business and Nursing & Health) leading to 9 Awards at level 5 or level 6.

Further Education is now seen as a credible and worthwhile option – on par with Higher Education, in terms of courses on offer, internationally recognisable qualifications on completion and employment prospects. This sector comprises of education and training which occurs after second-level schooling but which is not part of the third level, higher education system. [...]

Dorset College offers a wide range of career focused courses.  This includes Accounting & Finance, Business and Management, Computers and Information Technology, Multimedia-Game & Animination Development Courses also Web design, Law and Forensic Psychology and Montessori, Childcare and Healthcare courses. The decision that you take to pursue a qualification and enhance your professional career opportunities will [...]

Founded in 1981, Portobello Institute has unrivalled experience in providing intensive postleaving certificate training to students of all ages. All courses have been designed to meet the demands of wide and expanding industries where employment is ensured for successful graduates. The college strives continuously to introduce new and exciting courses to our portfolio in order [...]

There was a time, not too long ago, when your Leaving Certificate grades and the points that they translated into determined whether you would become a third level student for three or four years, go directly into employment, do a secretarial course, join the army or visit your local FAS office. Thanks to the Post [...]

Ireland’s 16 VECs organise second-level, adult, community and second-chance education, Post Leaving Cert (PLC) programmes, prisoner education, traveller education and a variety of EU-funded training programmes. These courses are offered at a variety of locations, but particularly in local schools and PLC colleges. Irelands VEC’s are segrated by county and by city. In 2011 the [...]

In autumn 2011 a single Student Grant Scheme replaced the 4 main support schemes for students. They were: Higher Education Grants Scheme Vocational Education Committees’ Scholarship Scheme Third Level Maintenance Grants Scheme for Trainees Maintenance Grants Scheme for Students Attending Post-Leaving Certificate Courses Maintenance Grants Scheme for Students attending Post-Leaving Certificate Courses The Maintenance Grants [...]

The number of people looking for course placements in further education colleges has risen dramatically for the second year running. A survey by the Teachers’ Union of Ireland has estimated that this year there have been three applicants for every PLC place available. The Teachers Union of Ireland has called on the Government to allow [...]

Atlantic College has an extensive part-time course programme to provide a range of professional courses in accountancy and finance, human resource management and training, psychology and childcare. All Atlantic College courses are accredited by partner Dorset College Dublin, by nationally and internationally established and recognised professional and examination bodies such as FETAC, CIPD, ACCA and [...]

This course leads to a FETAC level 5 award and a CACHE certificate after year one. Both of these awards are internationally recognised for those wishing to persue a career in childcare, be it working with the child in a day care nusery/creche, preschool or with a child with a specific need. The course is [...]