NUI Galway Graduate Recruitment Fair: National and multinational companies will feature at NUI Galway's Graduate Recruitment Fair, which takes place from noon to 4pm today. The annual event is an opportunity for current students, graduates and post-graduates to meet prospective employers and find out what's on offer in the job market. For further details e-mail: careers@nuigalway.ie
Irish Television Seminar
Looking Back and Looking Forward: 10 Years of TG4 - Celebration and Analysis is the title of a one-day seminar to mark the 10th anniversary of the Irish language television station TG4. The seminar will be held on Saturday, November 25th in the National University of Ireland, Galway.
The seminar will be opened by Cathal Goan, former director of TG4 and the director-general of RTÉ, as well as the current TG4 deputy director, Pádhraic Ó Ciardha.
The event is aimed at independent producers, academics working in Irish, communications, journalism or other fields, public servants, and educationalists in general.
Although the event will be held in Irish, full translation into English is offered and those who do not speak Irish are particularly welcome to attend.
Further information and a booking form are available from www.dcu.ie/tg4 or from e-mail: tg4@dcu.ie
School Library Association of Ireland (Slari) Annual Conference 2006
Slari is holding its annual conference on Saturday, November 11th from 9.30am to 3.30pm at Alexandra College, Milltown, Dublin 6. This year's theme is "Reading matters: Developing readers in your school library". For further information on presentations and speakers as well as booking details tel: 01-4977571 or e-mail: ivory.aileen@alexandracollege.ie
UCD Smurfit School of Business Open Evening
The UCD Smurfit School of Business open evening is taking place on Monday, November 6th at UCD Smurfit School, Carysfort Avenue, Blackrock, Co Dublin. Registration will commence at 4pm. Presentations will start at 4.30pm. A full schedule of the various master's degree and diploma programme presentations are on ucdbusiness.ucd.ie/re/ openevening
Lunchtime Lecture at the Hunt Museum Limerick
Una Hunt, concert pianist, will give a lecture on the life and work of the Limerick-born pianist and composer George Alexander Osborne on Tuesday, November 7th at 1pm in the Hunt Museum, Limerick.
Arguably the leading Irish pianist-composer of his time, Osborne was born in Limerick in 1806 and died in London in 1893. While his compositions would have enjoyed widespread popularity and recognition during his lifetime, his name has fallen into obscurity. Admission free.
Interview Preparation Seminar for Post-Graduate Course in Primary Teaching
The seminars will be held on December 3rd and 10th, and will deal with interview technique for the Irish oral and English interview and provide full sample answers for the questions the panel usually asks. There will be individual Irish interview plus post-interview analysis.
For further details tel: 046-9029740 or 087-9308038
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