Notice Board

Open Evening: Tallaght Institute of Technology will hold an open evening for students who are interested in business and humanities on Friday, October 29th. It will run from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. For more information contact Vincent Lennon at (01) 404 2114.

Open days: Waterford Institute of Technology will host open days today and tomorrow for students who are interested in attending a course there. A visit to the event, which will be held in the Chapel of the Good Shepherd on College Street Campus in Waterford and not at the main institute campus, should last about two hours. The day starts at 9.30 a.m. and runs until 1.30 p.m. Course information desks will be located in the college chapel.

Award-winning reading tips: For young bookworms who want some reading tips, here are a few markers, courtesy of the Children's Book Festival, which takes place this month in Dublin.

There were five top winners in this year's Bisto Awards, plus five further works which were short-listed. Niamh Sharkey's

Tales of Wisdom and Wonder from Barefoot Books was voted Bisto Book of the Year. The Eilis Dillon Award was presented to Caitriona Hastings for

DeaSceala, published by Clo Iar-Chonnachta. Three merit awards went to Gabriel Rosenstock and Piet Sluis for An Rogaire agus a Scail, published by An Gum; Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick for The Long March from Wolfhound Press and Siobhan Parkinson's The Moon King from O'Brien Press.

Those short-listed were All the Way from China from Poolbeg Press by Pat Bporan and Stuart Curry; Bert's Wonderful News from Walker Books by Sam McBratney; Please Be Quiet! from Mary Murphy from Methuen; Ride a Pale Horse from Tom McCaughren published by Anvil Press and The Gigantic Turnip from Niamh Sharkey, published by Barefoot Books. Niamh Sharkey's two award-winning books also won the Mother Goose Award this year The Kate Greenaway Medal was presented to Helen Cooper for Pumpkin Soup, published by Doubleday. The USA Newbery Medal went to Louis Sachar for , published by Bloomsbury.

Art to whet the appetite: Art lovers at primary and second level will have their appetites whetted once again this year when they view the new series of posters from the National Gallery of Ireland. Produced in association with Esso Ireland, this set of posters, which is the gallery's second series, has just been launched. Each set, comprising three posters, will be distributed to all schools with the assistance of the Department of Education and Science. The works comprise Irish watercolours and feature some of the best known and most admired works from the gallery's collection, dating from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century. They include John Comerford's Portrait of Robert Emmet, Jack B Yeats's The County of Mayo and Walter Osborne's The House Builders.