Tagged: FAS & News
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Department of Social Protection chooses BT for €9m network deal News
17.10.2011 The Department of Social Protection has awarded a five-year nationwide network infrastructure contract to BT in a deal worth close to €9m.Categories: CIO, Communications, Database, Deals Done, Government, Internet, Investments, Networking & Telecoms, Wireless Communications -
High employment record for industry-specific training - Pitman News
05.05.2011 In its ‘Jobs Initiative’ submission, the Pitman Training network is calling on the Government to establish an independently administered skills fund to subsidise course fees for...Categories: Jobs, Careers and Employment -
FÁS courses fail to deliver trainee certificates News
01.10.2010 Up to 1,000 trainees who participated in privately run FÁS training courses have not yet received their certificates. -
Jockey training course still in the RACE News
30.09.2010 A jockey training course that had been cancelled two weeks ago has now been given the go-ahead. -
Cowen to discuss jobs with State agencies News
22.09.2010 An Taoiseach Brian Cowen is set to meet with 11 State agencies this afternoon to discuss job creation and protection. -
Employment in ICT up in 2009 - EGFSN report News
01.07.2010 Despite the recession, employment opportunities and some skills shortages - particularly in the ICT area - continue to exist, according to the 2010 update to the National Skills...Categories: Jobs, Careers and Employment -
300 out of 1,900 former Dell workers received FAS training News
16.04.2010 The Steering Committee responsible for advising on the implementation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) for the 1,900 former Dell workers in Limerick has... -
e-skills are vital to both employed and unemployed News
24.02.2010 It is essential that Ireland prioritises the need for people to train themselves with e-skills which will be needed in order for Ireland to develop as a smart economy, the CEO...Categories: Careers and Employment, New MediaTags: FAS, -
Reskilling for green economy is imperative, ICT leaders urge News
04.12.2009 ICT players Microsoft, Dell, IBM, Siemens, Eircom and Lionbridge have warned that reskilling and training are crucial to secure the 80,000 jobs outlined in the Government’s...Categories: Business, Clean Tech -
More than 5,000 FIT graduates now in full-time employment News
18.11.2009 Almost 10 years after the Fast-track to IT (FIT) programme was developed with the IT industry, some 5,000 people are now in full-time employment. -
New social-networking site for the unemployed News
08.07.2009 The realisation that there is no online outlet to allow recently unemployed people to communicate spurred a recently redundant worker into action and a new website Halfaloaf.ie...Tags: FAS, -
Medical devices industry is beating the global decline News
24.03.2009 More than 24,000 people in 140 companies are involved in the medical devices industry, which is tipped to grow 9.5pc this year, IBEC said at a ceremony today, where 10 people... -
Half of Ireland ‘computer illiterates’ News
16.05.2008 ICT training company New Horizons is to run a series of basic computer training courses in Dublin during the summer in response to widespread computer illiteracy in the Irish...Categories: R&DTags: IT Training, FAS,