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FUNDING OF €17 million has been announced to expand apprenticeships across the higher education sector.
The funding will be used across four Technological Universities and one Institute of Technology in the higher education sector to deliver an additional 132 apprenticeship craft training blocks.
The four Technological Universities to benefit are the Atlantic Technological University (ATU), the Technological University of the Shannon (TUS), Munster Technological University (MTU), and the South East Technological University (SETU).
Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT) is the Institute of Technology set to benefit.
This will support the expansion of registrations across crafts including electrical, electronic security systems, pipefitting, plumbing, metal fabrication and refrigeration and air conditioning.
The funding has been announced by Further and Higher Education Minister Simon Harris and Minister of State for Skills and Further Education Niall Collins to “respond to the growing demand for apprenticeships in the higher education sector”.
This additional capacity is also required to meet the increase in apprentice registrations as indicated by SOLAS in a number of trades.
Speaking today, Minister Harris said: “This investment reaffirms once again the Government’s strong commitment to enhancing and expanding the apprenticeship system, putting apprenticeships at the centre of the education and training system by building on previous apprenticeship programme funding.”
Harris added that today’s funding announced is “also critical to the Government meeting our housing targets”.
Also included in the investment is an allocation of €220,000 so that SETU’s Carlow campus can procure all the equipment required for the delivery of its Aviation programme.
Minister of State Niall Collins said the Government “has been relentless in promoting apprenticeships” and noted that in order to meet demand, “we must continuously invest in infrastructure”.
He added: “I am really pleased to see this investment being made across our TUs. It will help us grow our infrastructure and meet the demands of our growing apprenticeship population.”
Ciarán McCaffrey is the head of Capital Programmes in the Higher Education Authority and he said “investment is key to facilitating a strong pipeline in crucial skills areas through the expansion of craft apprenticeships”.
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Another example of a government body hiding behind GDPR. Since 2016/2018 is a long time wait for a review to be conducted Nobody wants personal information published. People only want statistics.
@Jondis88: hiding behind or abiding by? Seeing as they used to provide the information before someone flagged the issue your comment seems more cynical then factual.
@Paul Clancy: hiding, it’s not that hard to understand
Where was GDPR when during covid we had to sign a book with our name and phone numbers to get into a pub or restaurant, everyone cud see anyone else’s name and phone number and was no guidelines on how businesses handled this information, GDPR my u know
GDPR has been in place for more than 5 years.
Why are implementation, policy & procedures still being discussed? What have the RSA been doing for the last half-decade?
Ireland seems to have a real difficulty in understanding GDPR, what is the problem here?
@: Laziness. That’s the problem right there.
Gdpr the greatest protector of beaurocracy for both public services and private organisations. Yet Facebook, twitter etc can publish slanderous material from unknown sources without redress
Where is the balance there?
This follows hot on the heals of the original SHAWW act, but thankfully that has brought safety management to a new level. I cannot say the same for GDPR though.
GDPR relates to people’s personal information not satisics of accidents or other general information, dosent add up
@Mark Dawson: so true – besides the akward reality that EVERY organisation in Ireland were asked to be prepared in advance for how to handle any changes GDPR might have on their organisations – it simply embarrassing for a govt agency to be this inefficient and far behind updating HOW they do their job and meet any new requirements GDPR may have – as many others have said this is a distraction – all these people were paid to work from home for 2 years and could and should have done whatever paper shuffling required to be able to report statistics while respecting personal data – safe bet EVERY other eu country has been able to report stats on road accidents since GDPR was implemented – who gets to ask RSA for some clear explanations – guarantee you it’s not genuinely a GDPR issue
Can we get rid of all these quangos and place responsibility where it belongs, the very well-paid Minister for Transport? The RSA was set up to give the well-connected nice little earners when they retire.
Just redact the personal details ffs.
Not rocket science.
GDPR is really becoming a problem in many way’s. Relax it or get wrid of it simple.
Safety engineers need that statistical data to be able to do their jobs. All that is needed is location, collision type, vehicles involved and date and time. How is that breaking GDPR rules, it simply isn’t.
That’s just an excuse, create unique complex identifiers for anything that wouldve been identifiable and delete the original identifier.
Nonsense! Just a poor understanding of GDPR on the RSA’s side. There is a specified purpose for publishing (ie processing personal data) in that manner as it serves a public health interest.
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