Breakfast Briefing February 2019

Up to 30 representatives gathered this morning (28^th February) in Coláiste Dhúlaigh College of Further Education (CDCFE) to discuss the CDCFE Traineeship in Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Customer Service Logistics.

Liam O’Halloran, on behalf of North Dublin Chamber opened the event welcoming all representative from North Dublin Charmer and local SMEs in attendance. Liam identified the location of Dublin Airport as being the 14th busiest airport in the world, and fast growing pace of industry and SMEs in the area. He also identified the workforce needed in Logistics, and how the CDCFE Traineeship bridges the gap in recruitment.

Speaking at the event as host, Mary Hickie, Principal of Coláiste Dhúlaigh College of Further Education (CDCFE) discussed the success of the CDCFE Traineeship ran by the college in association with Speedpak Group. Audrey Manning, CDCFE Traineeship Programme Coordinator discussed the programme schedule, content and thanked the industry partners including Allergan, Butlers, Ikea, Bewley’s, Real Technologies and Speedpak Group, that provided the trainees with valuable work placement making the last programme such a success, and she looks forward to continuing the working relationships in the future programmes.

John Murphy, CEO, Speekpak Group as a partner and host employer on the CDCFE Traineeship, emphasised the shortage of skilled workforce in the Manufacturing area and that recruitment is a challenge. He went on to identify that individuals do not need diplomas or degrees to access the industry, as the industry needs people with the right attitude and willingness to be trained and learn the job. John also identified the benefit to businesses with cooperate responsibility mind-set engaging with work experience.

Natasha Kinsella, Regional Skill Forum Manage Dublin identified the EXPLORE Initiative. She discussed how the initiative is designed focusing on digital skills in Manufacturing, and to encourage long-term employees or employers to engage with lifelong learning and to assist them to future proof their businesses by upskilling the existing workforce. Natasha outlined that the initiative is fully funded by the Department of Education and Skills, and participants will be only have 2 days in the training environment. Natasha shared a testimonial from one of the participants “A Life Saver For My Companies Online Capability” noting the benefits of engaging in the initiative.

Mary Hickie closed the event discussing the SKILLS to Advance. She discussed how CDCFE as Education and Training Board provider could meet the training and upskilling needs local employers and employees through this initiative, and if any employer would like to discuss this further to contact Áine Daly, CDCFE Assistant Principal – Employer Engagement directly ([email protected]).

Margaret Corbett, CDETB Employer Engagement Coordinator explained in details how employees could access upskilling and reskilling opportunities by one of three routes as follows

Route 1: Delivered directly to employees, helping grow and evolve skills to advance their work options.

Route 2: Through business engagement, developed in consultation with individual small and medium sized businesses to address the particular needs of their workforce.

Route 3: As part of regional development to help get ahead of vulnerabilities and strong emerging opportunities in regions and industries across Ireland

The event was well received by all businesses in attendance and they noted how beneficial events such as these are to companies in North Dublin.

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The talks start each day at 9.30 in the Coolock Campus and will run until approximately 12.30. All are welcome and the event is free, although places will be on a first come first served basis.

Day One

Coláiste Dhúlaigh College of Further Education (CDCFE) hosted their annual Keyframe event this week.  Keyframe 6 welcomed speakers from the animation and media industries to the college Coolock campus.

The event, which is in its sixth year, gave students the opportunity to engage with and gain knowledge and advice from professionals who are working in their chosen fields, many of whom are graduates from the college.

Speakers throughout the weeklong event included Jamie Teehan from Bafta winning Sixteen South Studios, creators of the Disney Junior show Claude.  He spoke about his experiences of working with the American market on the new show Pinkalicious and Peterrific among others.

Animator Kieron Arkins spoke about his work with Kilkenny based Cartoon Saloon, creators of the Oscar winning film Song of the Sea. Followed by Irish Animator Eimhin McNamara who gave demonstrations to students from his work with Paper Panther Studios.

Other speakers from Ireland’s thriving animation industry included Kirsten Shiel and Carmine Pucci from Brown Bag films as well as Gingerbread Animation’s Eoghan Dalton and and Sarah Jane Kelly who are currently working on Space Chicken’s in Space for Disney XD channel.  

Kevin Lynch, head of the Animation course at Colaiste Dhulaigh said “Keyframe is a brilliant opportunity for students to get an insight into the industry and how to break in to it”.

Four short films from Colaiste Dhulaigh’s Animation Degree course have been nominated for “Special Selection” at Animation Dingle 2019.  The films nominated are Mamma’s Little Monster by Kelly Herbert, Sound Holds the Distance Travelled produced by Gareth Gowran and Sadhbh Lawlor, Dobrogor by Marek Winnicki and On The Radio written by Dave Cooney.

Applications are now open for places on courses starting in September.  For more information see www.dhulaigh.ie.

Animation at Coláiste Dhúlaigh CFE are delighted to announce that four of our BA graduate films have made

“The Special Selection” at Animation Dingle 2019.

Mamma’s Little Monster // Ireland // Director/Writer Kelly Herbert

Sound Holds the Distance Travelled // Ireland // Director/Writer/Producer Gareth Gowran/Sadhbh Lawlor

Congratulations to all involved. See the full listing of nominations at https://2019.animationdingle.com/festiv…/official-selection/

See our Animation page here

Coláiste Dhúlaigh College of Further Education is hosting an Information Evening on Thursday 17th January from 4.30 to 7pm in our Coolock campus. The evening will give prospective students the opportunity to talk to staff and students about our courses.
We will be holding PLC Interview Preparation Seminars throughout the evening. These seminars cover all aspects of our interview process. Interviews will be held on Friday 25th January in our Coolock campus.

Interview Preparation Seminars will be held at 5.00pm, 5.30pm, 6.00pm and 6.30pm.

To apply for our courses click here

Coláiste Dhúlaigh College of Further Education is hosting an Information Evening on Thursday 29th August from 4.30 – 7.30pm in our Coolock Campus. The evening will give potential students and their parents/guardians the opportunity to  talk to staff and students about our courses and progression routes to Universities and I.T.’s, including DIT and DCU.

Applications for our courses starting September 2019 are now open. Apply here

Applications for our courses starting September 2019 are now open. Apply here.

Once we receive your application you will receive an email with details of an interview date.

To help prepare for interview see our FAQ’s section of the website here.

We have free places available in our BTEI Childcare and Healthcare courses. BTEI gives unemployed adults the opportunity to return to education while retaining their benefit.

See the Childcare course here
See the Healthcare course here

Apply online here

Join us for our next events in the college.

Further Education & Training Expo

On Tuesday November 20th we will be hosting the City Of Dublin ETB Further Education & Training Expo in our Coolock campus. All 20 of the CDETB colleges will be exhibiting on the day and you will get a chance to talk to students and staff on the day. For schools to register please contact [email protected]

Information Evening 

On Thursday 29th November form 4.30-7.30pm we will be hosting the first of our Information Evenings in our Coolock campus. This will give parents and students the opportunity to talk to staff and students about all our courses on offer.

Applications Opening for September 2019

Applications will open for September 2019 in mid November and our first round of interviews will be held in late January. Please keep checking the website for further details.

Places are still available for our PLC courses. Apply here.

We are holding an Information Afternoon on Tuesday 4th September from 3-5pm in our Coolock campus.

Information will be available on all our Post Leaving Certificate (PLC) courses.  We will be giving information on our VTOS and BTEI courses which are Free to unemployed and those in receipt of a social welfare payment and our Part Time day and night programmes.

We have over 30 PLC courses that lead to employment or to Universities and IT’s. PLC courses start soon and the next round of interviews is Thursday 6th September.

Apply for our PLC / VTOS / BTEI courses here

See our list of part time courses here

Call into our Coolock campus and talk to us.

We have places left in our Outdoor Adventure Management course and our Youth Activities course.

Interviews will take place on Wednesday 29th and Thursday 30th of August.

Apply here

See the Outdoor Adventure Management course here 

See the Youth Activities course here

We have limited places on 

• Creative Writing for Digital Media
• Youth Activities Worker
• Pre-Primary School Teaching
• Physiotherapy Assistant

Apply here

Members of our Guidance team will be available in our Coolock campus on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this week and Monday and Tuesday of next week to give you advice and options on your next move after the Leaving Certificate. Call in from 10am – 3pm, no appointment needed.

If you already have a QQI level 5 award in any of the courses below you can apply for advanced entry into our QQI level 6 (year 2).

Business,
Computing,
Animation,
Graphic Design,
Media Production,
Theatre,
Tourism,
Fashion,
Childcare,
Social Care

Apply here

At the end of May our students form the B.A. Top-Up Degree in Video & Film Production showcased their Films in the Lighthouse Cinema. The stand of the films was commented on by a number of Film industry experts. Read the review from the “Scannain” website here.

Congratulations to all involved.

Traineeship in Manufacturing, Supply Chain & Customer Service Logistics

This new traineeship is run in partnership with Speedpak and is 30 weeks duration and offers real commercial work placement with leading local industries. The course offers a level 5 part award and provides training in Forklift Truck Skills, Manual Handling and Lean Manufacturing. Work placement will take place in local leading industries.

Course Structure
6 weeks induction (classroom based)
2 weeks holidays
6 weeks work placement
8 weeks training (Forklift, Warehousing, Functional Maths, Lean Manufacturing)
4 weeks classroom preparation for QQI submission

Course Content
Warehousing, Customer Service, Safety & Health in the Workplace, Personal Effectiveness, Database Methods, Work Practice, Occupational First Aid, Functional Maths, Counterbalance Forklift Truck Skills, Manual Handling, Lean Manufacturing.

How to Apply
Apply here or email [email protected] or call 8481400

VTOS means Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme. VTOS gives unemployed adults over 21 the opportunity of returning to full time education while retaining their benefit.

Courses start in September. Click on a course below to find out more.
Register your interest today by applying here

Pottery
Craft / Jewellery Making
Pre-Primary School Teaching
Hairdressing
Tour Guiding
IT Technician
General Learning (level 4)
Photography
Horticulture
Early Childhood Care & Education Level 5
Entrepreneurship in Creative Industries

Phone: 8481400
All of our other PLC courses are also available to people who are VTOS eligible.

This will be a great opportunity for the cdcfe students/graduates/alumni to talk with employers to find out more about careers and/or even apply for jobs in the following sectors; healthcare, childcare, social care, tourism, & construction apprenticeships.

To mark an innovative development in tour guide training the Lord Mayor of Dublin Cllr Micheál Mac Donncha presented Coláiste Dhuláigh CFE’s National Tour Guiding Class of 2018 with their Level 6 QQI awards in National Tour Guiding on Thursday 22 March in the Mansion House. Coláiste Dhuláigh CFE is delighted to be the first ETB College in Dublin to deliver this Special Purpose award, the new professional qualification for tour guides which replaces the former badge certification by Fáilte Ireland.

Sixteen students commenced the course in September 2017 and all sixteen have successfully completed with outstanding results. Employment opportunities are immense and already all students have secured a position within the industry.

This award is delivered through an integrated mix of on campus lectures, off site visits to key tourist attractions and self-directed learning over three days a week. Strong links with industry experts have been established and their insights have greatly prepared the students for work as tour guides in this ever-expanding sector. Coláiste Dhúlaigh look forward to continuing to be a market leader in the delivery of QQI courses which allow students to gain employment on completion of their studies.

Our final year interior design students had the opportunity to work on a design concept for the award winning boutique hotel No1. Pery Square, Limerick.

The Students initally visited the hotel to meet with their client Patricia Roberts owner of No1. Perry Square. She delivered a very specific brief to the students and guided them around the proposed site of the new entrance, bar restaurant and outdoor space. The building is a protected sturcture based in the renouned Limerick Georgian Quarter. The students needed to develope an understanding of the Geogian period inorder to create a concept that was contemporary while remaining sympathetic to the exisiting Georgian elements that make this hotel so unique.

“No1 Pery Square – an elegant, thoughtful, Irish historic and boutique hotel with an layer of sophistication ad most of all great taste”

They conducted extensive research on Georgian architecture and learcned the importance of designing to a concept that would be part of the companies marketing strategy in order to maintain competitive advantage in the leisure sector.

Each students created a unique design concept to present the client.

Kiera Egan 

Kiera went with Deep emerald green with blush and gold accents. Creating a luxurious and dark space by using velvets and bold wallpaper focusing mainly on texture and colour. Traditional panelling and wood treatment were carried throughout the design to pay homage to Georgian detail. While the ambient lighting and gold accessories lent a lavish touch to kiera’s space.

Katarzyna Sandecka

Went with a Georgian inspired interior with modern twists throughout in her accessories and lighting. Using deep blue with mustard accents creating a sophisticated yet current interior. picking up the hues from the opulent peacock feather kasia’s design was consistent throughout and a bold twist on Georgian architecture and design.

Tatiana Shevel

Tatianas design was mainly focused around grey poured concrete tiles with a natural pattern. Pulling influence from Georgian interior and elements of a country house.  Grey tones and making use of the natural light in the space created modern interpretation of Georgian interior. One of Tatiana’s main focuses was to make use of the garden and terrace by adding a lot of greenery creating a cosy outside space.

We would like to take the oppertunity to thank Patricia and George for giving us the chance to partake in such a interesting and challengeing project.

http://oneperysquare.com