Institute of Guidance Counsellors

“Forget about points, don’t waste energy fretting about future events and focus on the tasks your teachers set you each week and day.” This advice to(...)

“The class of 2020”. Back in September, 2013, that opening caption on the presentation at the introductory evening for parents of first-year students (...)

I ’ve been working in areas linked to hospitality for the past 20 years. With the current coronavirus turmoil, my job is in jeopardy. I’ve been thinki(...)

All students will now get full marks in their oral and practical performance tests in response to the coronavirus threat. Is this a fair response ? On(...)

I’ve been using the Qualifax service online to research and store my course choices following my Leaving Cert in June 2020. I recently received an ema(...)

Irish Times education columnist and career guidance counsellor Brian Mooney has been conferred with an honorary degree by the National University of I(...)

Traditionally it has been assumed that the way to advance to management level in a company is to enter the workforce with a degree or similar qualific(...)

With 77 per cent of women aged between 25 and 54 employed outside of the home in 2018, a record number of women are now part of the Irish workforce. (...)

Organised by The Irish Times and the Institute of Guidance Counsellors in September every year, the Higher Options conference, in the RDS, Dublin, is (...)

There are three guarantees in life: death, taxes and the inevitability that some students will be upset or confused about their Leaving Cert results. (...)