Ms Natalia Leane:

Culinary arts in Munster Technological University - Kerry. I started on a full-time programme but I moved on to a part-time apprenticeship-type programme like Springboard. I was doing three days a week in the college. The idea was that if we did it part time, we had time to get a job. They helped us to get a job through work experience during the summer. We had a project to do about that and we were expected to keep on that job because a big part of our grade was from the project that we did based on the work experience. It was to get us into the workplace because they knew if we just did college we would not get the full experience so they really pushed to get us in to work as well as just college.

If we just went to college we would not have got the full experience, so they really pushed us to get us into work as well as college.