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Staff Training and Study Visits for VET Staff in KWETB
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016 PROJECT  FINISHED 

This project includes two study visits to City College, Norwich, UK and Jyvaskyla Consortium in Finland, for staff delivering VET in Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board. Staff representing VTOS; BTEI; Post Leaving Certificate Colleges and the Adult Guidance Service will visit Norwich City College to learn about the culture of enterprise in the college. They will be introduced to the StartUp Lounge which provides opportunitites for students to develop, plan and pitch enterprise concepts. They will also learn about how enterprise education can be integrated across curricula. Staff representing Youthreach will visit the Jyvaskyla Consortium in Finland to study the Finnish approach to supporting students in transition from Lower Secondary education to upper Secondary education, through the Career Start Programme. They will also study and make comparisons between Irish and Finnish vocational education provision. Twenty Four staff will participate in total. It is anticipated that these visits will have an impact on further development and innovation of programmes being delivered to students in Wicklow and Kildare in the short term to meet the needs of those preparing to progress to the labour market. In the long term the visits may have an impact on the development of more international activity for the organisation and on strategy and policy changes regarding the delivery of vocational education in Kildare, Wicklow and Ireland.
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