Working for Work : Chapter 6 : Training & Education

Back to Education Initiative (BTEI)

The Back to Education Initiative provides for an expansion of flexible part-time options across Further Education. Its priority is those adults with less than upper second level education and it aims to give adults who wish to return to education an opportunity to combine their return to learning with family, work and other responsibilities.

It offers Post-Leaving Certificate, VTOS, Youthreach, STTC programmes on a part-time basis. Courses are free for any adult with a less than upper second level education.

Courses offered can include subjects in the Junior or Leaving Certificate and a wide range of modules such as Communications, Personal Development, Business, Computing, Childcare, Art and Craft, Tourism, Catering, Sport and Leisure etc. For information contact the Adult Education Officer or Adult Guidance Information Officer at your local VEC.

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