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Seanad: Restructuring of Vocational Education Committees: Statements (19 Oct 2010)

Ann Ormonde: ..., skills training, leaving certificate and post-leaving certificate courses, the vocational training opportunities scheme, second chance education and life-long learning programmes. They can tap into an area to find out what is needed. They offer excellent career guidance services and a home school link service which reaches out to primary schools. I welcome the new model of community...

Seanad: Supplementary Budget Statement 2009: Statements (9 Apr 2009)

Ann Ormonde: ...will open up jobs in that area. I compliment our education system at that level. At second level we should make more of certain programmes. Post leaving certificate courses are great because they tap into the skills that are needed. I have seen these courses work and I was part of it. These were a first class concept in bridging the gap between education and work to see what jobs were...

Seanad: Unemployment Levels: Statements (15 Oct 2008)

Ann Ormonde: ...do we do the joined-up thinking between the Department of Education and Science, the Minister of State's Department and that which deals with the live register? How can we work in a way that will tap into this for the individual ? I am a guidance counsellor. How do I know how to reach out to that person, interview him or her, at a guidance or a counselling level, in order to give the...

Seanad: Adult and Further Education: Statements. (21 Jun 2006)

Ann Ormonde: If career guidance teachers are available in every VEC area, they can tap into the locality where problems exist. VEC colleges provide a ready made network, as do FÁS offices. Duplication in the provision of some courses must be examined because money is being wasted. VEC committees should not run two courses in the same area on, for example, engineering. This is not solely an issue for the...

Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)

Ann Ormonde: .... We must consider how best we can retain people in the education system, maximise their potential and allow them access to whatever form of third level education they choose. Perhaps we should be tapping into the apprenticeship system. We need to look at the skilled areas because not everyone is academically orientated. We could do with a few such individuals in the House. I welcome this...