GALWAY-MAYO Institute of Technology is to run two free courses for people who have lost jobs or had their working hours curtailed.
The two courses in enterprise development and in special entry to higher education begin this month at the GMIT campus in Galway.
Meanwhile, a conference on job creation in the marine sector on the west coast is taking place this month in Kenmare, Co Kerry.
The GMIT higher certificate in “business in enterprise development” is a free 15-month part-time course. The special entry course to higher education takes place over 10 weeks, also at no charge. Modules will include entrepreneurship and innovation, business planning and finance, people management, mentoring and growing your business, the development of entrepreneurial ideas, and many other relevant business subjects.
An information session on this course takes place tomorrow at GMIT’s Galway campus on the Dublin Road from 10am to 1pm. A further information session will be held next Monday, March 9th, at the Galway campus at 7pm.
A conference on a “new vision and direction” for Ireland is also being hosted by GMIT at its Castlebar, Co Mayo, campus on April 4th. The conference will coincide with the opening by former president of Ireland Mary Robinson of a library of books donated to the campus by theologian Prof Enda McDonagh.
A conference on jobs in the marine sector and the export potential of fish and shellfish farming is due to be held by the Irish Farmers’ Association’s aquaculture division in Kenmare, Co Kerry on March 19th.
** Senior business figures are expected to attend a forum tonight on rejuvenating the economy in Co Meath to be chaired by former Meath GAA football manager Seán Boylan. The forum was proposed by former county council chairman Brian Fitzgerald.