Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Review of Action Plan for Apprenticeship 2021-2025: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. Andrew Brownlee:
On the Northern Ireland point, we have really close ties. I will be meeting with Northern Ireland college colleagues at a PEACEPLUS event soon. Mr. Grady's ETB has experience of partnership projects and it is a big focus for us. On the further education and training college point, I have one brilliant example in Monaghan Institute. Cavan Institute is now going to be funded through the further education and training College of the Future funding call. The whole idea is to break those old legacy FÁS training centres and college of further education silos and bring them all together in one really high-quality learning environment that is just as good as any university that students can attend. That is the whole idea and apprenticeship is very much part of that.
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