2009 Press Releases

Work-based Learning Symposium
08.05.2009

The Education in Employment (EiE) project recently hosted its second Symposium on “Work based Learning” in The Cavanagh Pharmacy Building, UCC.
The Education in Employment project is led by Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) and includes a number of third level institutions countrywide, including UCC, Athlone Institute of Technology, Dublin Institute of Technology, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, Institute of Technology, Sligo, Letterkenny Institute of Technology and NUI Galway.

The main aim of the Project is to enable the provision of educational opportunities to those in the workplace in a relevant, flexible and negotiated way. It is funded through the Higher Education Authority Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF) Cycle 1 under the National Development Plan. The project proposal recognises the importance of the three-way relationship comprising the employer, the learner and the higher education provider in facilitating the design and provision of those learning opportunities to meeting the needs of the enterprise economy.
 
One of the key outcomes of the project is the development of work-based learning opportunities through partnership.  The second symposium on ‘Work-based Learning’ allowed further scope to explore the national and international context for these partnerships.

Picture shows L-R: Kieran Doyle Athlone Institute of Technology, Professor Grace Neville UCC, Oran Doherty Letterkenny Institute of Technology and Dr Mary McCarthy UCC.
 
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