The School of Computer Science & Information Technology at UCC will hold a one-week IT Summer Camp for teenagers between the ages of 14 and 16 at its state-of-the-art location in the Western Gateway Building, Cork. The Summer Camp will run from 9:00-1:00 each day, and is sponsored by the Higher Education Authority (HEA).

At this highly-interactive Summer Camp, teenagers will work in areas such as:

• Building and programming robots
• Designing interactive web pages
• Learning how computer games are developed
• Working with leading-edge multimedia software

Fee: €60

More info: http://www.ucc.ie/en/compsci/itsummercamp/index.html

Languages for Sport

Interpreting for Trapatoni

Languages and Technology

Working in Google

Source: http://www.languagesinitiative.ie/

library of videos covers K-12 math, science topics such as biology, chemistry, and physics, and even reaches into the humanities with playlists on finance and history. Each video is a digestible chunk, approximately 10 minutes long, and especially purposed for viewing on the computer.

 FORM  I

Core Subjects:  English, Irish, Mathematics, Science, History, Geography, C.S.P.E., *Religious Education, *Physical Education, *S.P.H.E.

[*Denotes not for State Examinations.]

In addition, all pupils take programmes in Music, Computing, Social Skills, Choir and school Sport.

Finally, each pupil must choose one subject from each of the option groups A, B & C.

OPTION A

Choose one of the following subjects.   Pupils are expected to take at least one modern European language subject unless advised not to do so due to a specific learning issue.

OPTION B

(Choose one of the following subjects)

OPTION C

(Choose one of the following subjects)

Note:  One subject must be chosen from each of Options A, B & C. Please place an ‘X’ in the box opposite the chosen subject. Where insufficient pupils elect for a subject option it may have to be withdrawn.

The NCCA has put together a set of fact sheets which give information about the different subjects available in junior cycle. While the fact sheets have been designed with sixth class pupils and first year students in mind, they will also be useful for parents.

http://www.ncca.ie/en/Curriculum_and_Assessment/Post-Primary_Education/Junior_Cycle/Fact_sheets/

We are receiving a lot of enquiries from companies seeking qualified instrumentation personnel for local, national and international positions. This may assist you in guiding students seeking rewarding careers with excellent prospects.

The Department of Applied Physics & Instrumentation at CIT offers the following two programmes that target this multi-disciplinary market:
CR001  BSc in Applied Physics & Instrumentation ( 3 yearLevel 7)
CR360  BSc Honours in Instrument Engineering (4 year Level
(Graduates from CR001 with an average mark of at least 50% can progress to year 4 of CR360)

Despite the economic difficulties being experienced in Ireland and elsewhere, employment of our instrumentation graduates has continued to be excellent and we cannot meet demand. The above programmes are multi-disciplinary, with a mix of science and engineering modules, and therefore suit students interested in science and/or engineering. These programmes particularly suit students who are interested in how things work, solving problems and meeting technical challenges. Graduates acquire a skill-set with a wide range of employment opportunities and the ability to adapt to rapidly changing technologies and can look forward to a range of rewarding careers.
Having pioneered instrumentation education at third level in Ireland nearly forty years ago, this Department is the leading Irish provider of instrumentation graduates. In addition to the above undergraduate degrees, our educational programme in instrumentation now extends to post-graduate research at MSc and PhD levels.
Many of our graduates are employed in Ireland within industry sectors such as chemical, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, food, beverage and waste water. Other graduates are employed in sectors such as computing, medical devices, hospitals, education, research and development. Many of our internationally based graduates are in the oil & gas and minerals sectors. In addition to the direct employment within the above sectors, other graduates work in the systems integration companies and engineering consultancies that support these sectors.
If you require any further information please let me know. We are more than happy to show students around our facilities or to give them advice regarding Leaving Certificate subject selection or CAO change of mind

WHAT career paths should the classes of 2012 follow in order to make a living after college? If the school leavers don’t know by now, they’d better make up something quickly, because it’s CAO form-filling time.

Yes, the deadline to decide what you want to do with the rest of your life comes up at the end of January. So no pressure then, eh?

Traditionally safe and lucrative professions are looking dicey: banking, teaching, medicine, architecture — they’re not the solid ways to earn a livelihood that they once were.

So, where will the jobs be when you graduate in 2015, and what courses can you choose in order to bag them?

Technology and Science

No surprises here. Forty per cent of new jobs in coming years will be in the technology and science arena, the IDA has predicted.

Companies like Zynga, Quest, Google, Intel and Amgen have made big investments here in the past 12 months, and that bodes well for employment prospects in a few years’ time.

The IDA has €600m-plus worth of business wins lined up for 2012, mainly in the technology, biotechnology and science fields.

“The technology sector generated 4,000 jobs last year,” said ICT Ireland director Paul Sweetman, “and there will be 200 job announcements this month alone.”

So courses like software engineering, computer science, software development and design are ones to consider.

Meanwhile, big pharma should continue to be a big employer. Billion-dollar drug maker Alkermes came to Ireland in 2011, and Botox maker Allergan announced a €270m expansion in Westport, happening over the next four years and adding 200 jobs there.

Earning power: €40,000 a year and upwards

Gambling

Not putting your college money on a horse, but rather considering the bookmaking sector as a great career bet. The growth of online gambling is opening up huge opportunities here.

“The business needs maths graduates, actuarial graduates, computer programmers, digital marketers, social media and Google analytics experts,” said Sharon Byrne of the Irish Bookmakers’ Association.

Now Europe’s biggest bookmaker, Paddy Power, employs 2,500 people. Its graduate trainee programme takes on people with degrees in business, IT, eCommerce, maths, statistics, marketing and business analytics.

Earning power: Paddy Power grads get an “attractive package” including salary, bonus, pension, healthcare and life cover.

Accountancy

It’s one of the few traditional safe havens left. Big four firms KPMG, PwC, Ernst & Young and Deloitte have been taking in more graduates despite the economic gloom. There’s big money to be made in hand-ling all these administrat-ions, receiverships, liquidat-ions and restructurings that the recession has brought about.

You don’t need to have an accountancy degree; a good 2:1 degree in any discipline could get you in.

Earning power: Starting at around €20,000 a year for graduate trainees, with potential to move into six figures if you’re made partner in a big firm

Lidl/Aldi manager

Retail spend may be falling off a cliff but people still need to eat. The two German discounters have been eating up market share and opening new branches monthly.

Both Lidl and Aldi have rather well-paid graduate programmes. You need a decent 2:1 degree in any discipline to apply.

Lidl funds its own retail management degree in partnership with the Dublin Business School and even pays students a salary and holiday leave throughout their studies. (Application is via Lidl directly rather than the CEO system).

Earning power: A €60,000 starting salary plus a fully expensed car. At Aldi the car is an Audi A4 — not bad at all if you’re 22 and fresh out of college. Salary rises to more than €80,000 over time.

IFSC back office

It’s cold comfort to Ulster Bank employees, but if financial services tsar John Bruton follows through on his mission, the IFSC will employ thousands more in coming years. This is where back office and clearing house functions are carried out for some of the biggest companies in the world: hedge funds, reinsurance giants, banks and asset financing firms.

On top of the 33,000 people employed there, there’s a plan to provide 10,000 more jobs there over the next five years. Almost 90 per cent of employees there are third-level graduates.

Earning power: €50,000-plus

Agrifood

Companies like Glanbia and Kerry Group are turning a tasty profit despite the recession and the agrifood sector is the second biggest employer in the country.

Points for degree courses in fields like agribusiness and food innovation leapt up by an average of more than 20 points last year.

Kerry Group recruits graduate trainees from disciplines as diverse as finance, engineering, IT, product development and science. Glanbia looks for food technologists, business analysts, finance, IT, engineering and food science graduates.

Earning power: Circa €20,000 during graduate traineeship, then €50,000-plus

Aviation finance

Almost all of the world’s big aircraft leasing firms have offices in Ireland and it’s a multi-billion euro industry.

Aviation leasing hires a big mix of professions as it takes a cross-section of people to put complex deals together, including lawyers, accountants, sales people, credit risk analysts, engineers and marketers. Training tends to be in-house and informal.

“While Europe is very shut down in the current market, business is booming in Asia and Latin America,” one aviation leasing executive said.

Earning power: Six figures plus bonus, once your career is in full flight

Fast food

The company that runs KFC and Pizza Hut in Ireland made big profits last year, and Supermac’s and McDonald’s are growing their businesses. McD’s is planning an €8m-a-year expansion for the next four to five years. While it doesn’t have a dedicated programme, graduates who enlist at management level make a decent living.

Earning power: A second assistant manager at McDonald’s makes around €38,000 plus benefits like health care. A business manager makes up to €59,000.

Entrepreneurship

Your parents won’t thank us for telling you this, but skipping college altogether can be profitable too. Steve Jobs was a college dropout, and that didn’t exactly hold the Apple founder back.

The Irish entrepreneur behind one of last year’s biggest deals left school early. Greg Turley sold part of his business, Cartrawler, for a cool €100m.

Michelle Mone, the Scottish businesswoman who founded the Ultimo bra empire, left school at 15. Her company is worth €20m.

Earning power: Extremely variable, but potentially huge.

Source: http://www.independent.ie/business/where-will-the-best-paying-jobs-be-in-ireland-2015-2989222.html

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A new ONLINE ONLY grant applications system is being introduced for 2012. All new applications will be made online to a single awarding authority, Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI) through www.studentfinance.ie.

When can I make my grant application?

The details of the 2012 Student Grant Scheme are due to be announced in May and the SUSI online application system will be available from that date. You can continue to check www.studentfinance.ie for information and updates in the meantime.

How do I make my grant application?

As soon as the online application system opens for the 2012/13 academic year, you will be able to register online with SUSI and then complete the online application form. The online application facility will be available through www.studentfinance.ie. Remember, it will NOT be necessary to have received an offer of a college place or to be enrolled in college in order to apply online.

How will I submit my supporting documentation?

Following initial assessment of your application, if eligible, you will receive by post a provisional grant approval and a personalised list of the supporting documents you will need to return to complete your application. Completed documentary evidence packs (photocopies of the documents, not originals) should be returned as soon as possible in the envelope provided to you.

When you return all the necessary supporting documents SUSI will process your application to award stage, subject to confirmation of your acceptance on an approved course.

When will I receive a final decision from SUSI?

When you confirm acceptance of a place on an approved course (usually late August/early September), your grant is awarded and payment will be made on a monthly basis (subject to confirmation of attendance) directly into your designated Irish bank account.

A. Change of Mind – 5th May (12:00 noon) to 1st July (17:15)

At the beginning of May, applicants will be able to register on-line a change of course choices, free of charge.

Change of Mind Forms may NOT be submitted by FAX.

If you change online, and have supplied an email address, an acknowledgement will also be sent to that email address.

There is no fee for using the Change of Mind facility.

Subject to the exceptions and restrictions mentioned below, you may change course choices (without fee) as often as you wish, up to 17:15 on the 1st July.

If you submit a Change of Mind, it cancels and supersedes all the previous course choices in any category in which changes are made. However, choices in the two categories ( Level 8 and Level 7/6 ) are considered to be completely separate from each other for this purpose. e.g. a change of Level 8 course choices will not affect Level 7/6 choices.

Restricted-Application Courses which are added for the first time via a Change of Mind are invalid choices and will not be considered.

You may NOT enter on a Change of Mind any Mature Applicant Course Codes for nursing, unless at least one such Code appeared on the original application and you have taken the test/interview in the current year.

In addition, individual admitting HEIs may impose restrictions on Change of Mind by certain categories of applicant. These are generally the same as for Late Applications. In particular, mature applicants, transfer applicants and those presenting entry qualifications other than recent EU school-leaving examinations should make enquiries from individual Admissions Offices before introducing new course choices after 1st February.

If you make a change of mind, you will receive a revised Statement of Course Choices to confirm that your new course choices have been entered into your computer record.
The revised statement will NOT be issued BEFORE 1st June.
If it does not arrive by 7th July, you MUST contact us immediately, and provide proof of the submission of the Change of Mind.

It is very important that your course choices should be absolutely correct. Therefore, if you are going to be absent at the time when the revised statement is due, you must arrange for someone to check that it arrives and, when it arrives, that the contents are correct and accurately reflect your wishes.
DO NOT WAIT UNTIL AUGUST TO NOTIFY US OF ERRORS OR OMISSIONS AS IT WILL BE TOO LATE TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT THEM AT THAT STAGE.