Limited places are available for our free course in Pottery and Jewellery Making from 4th – 27th June. The course will take place in our Raheny Campus.
Classes will run from 10am – 2pm each day and will include guest lecturers. Yoga will be offered as an option on the course and mats will be provided.
Call Suzanne on 01 8481400 to book a place.
We are happy to announce our newest courses on offer.
Technical Helpdesk Support is a level 6 course which specialises in IT areas such as Networking, Virtualisation and Technical Support Skills and will also focus on the skills required for Helpdesk Support with modules in Contact Centre Support Skills, Customer Service and Front Office Skills.
3D Modelling, Product and Printing will focus on 3D Product Design and Visualisation. Students will work with three dimensional materials, developing their design skills, detailing and prototyping methods. They will learn valuable technical and 3D visualisation skills and produce digital representations and 3D printed prototypes for manufacturing, patenting and marketing purposes.
End of Year Career Fair 2019
This event facilitates:
Over 300 students graduating from CDCFE will attend the event throughout the day. CDCFE Alumni and students from other local ETB colleges will also be invited to attend.
The CDCFE students will have completed their studies in the following sectors Business, Finance, Marketing, Administration, Tourism, Sport, ICT, Childcare, Healthcare, Social Care, and Engineering Technology.
Employers will be permitted to the hall area from 8.00 am to set up and a light breakfast will be available. Employers can bring along pop-ups, flyers, etc. and will be given a space with a table.
We start the event at 9 AM sharp with an opening presentation from Mary Hickie – CDCFE Principal, followed by meet/greet between course coordinators/employers prior to the students attend the event.
A light lunch will be available between 11.45 – 12.30. We expect to finish by 3 PM.
Any employer who wishes to participate in this event, please express you interest to Áine Daly at acddaly@cdcfe.com as there is a limit on number of available stands.
If you have any future queries please do not hesitate to contact Áine Daly at acddaly@cdcfe.com
This week our first year Media Production students are presenting CDCFM and are broadcasting live from our radio studio every day from 12-2pm.
Up to 30 representatives gathered this morning (28th 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 (acddaly@cdcfe.com).
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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Keyframe is an event run by the Media and Animation Courses at Coláiste Dhúlaigh CFE in Coolock. Each year they welcome industry professionals, many of whom are ex-students of the Media and Animation Courses, to hear them talk about their work and how they found their way into a career in Media.
This year we have people from the world of Stop Motion, Film Directing, Foley Sound Design, Photography, News Presentation, Commissioning and Comedy.
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.cdcfe.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
Dobrogor // Ireland // Director/Writer/Producer Marek Winnicki
On The Radio // Ireland // Director/Writer Dave Cooney
Congratulations to all involved. See the full listing of nominations at https://2019.animationdingle.
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.
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 coolock@cdcfe.cdetb.ie
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.
See the Outdoor Adventure Management course here
See the Youth Activities course here
We have limited places on
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
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 traineeship@cdcfe.com 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.