A number of events to note
• European Piano Teachers' Association EPTA Ireland presents a masterclass with Philip Martin for junior students (aged 10-14) on Sunday, February 5th at 2.30pm at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Westland Row, Dublin 2. The class is open to all. Details from Eithne Gallagher. Tel: 01-2899367. E-mail: gall@iol.ie
• Ballsbridge College of Further Education Open Day Ballsbridge College, Shelbourne Road, Dublin 4 is holding an open day on Wednesday, February 8th from 11am to 3pm. All are welcome to attend.
Full-time courses include: auctioneering, estate agency and valuation; business studies; computerised office skills for adults; English as a foreign language (EFL); media studies; health sector studies; international aid and development studies; international event management marketing; advertising and management; office systems; recruitment and human resources studies; supply chain management; web authoring and multimedia and advanced sales and marketing.
For more information e-mail: info@ballsbridge.cdvec.ie Website: www.ballsbridgecollege.com
• Competition for students of German First year university students of German in Ireland can now enter a creative writing competition initiated by Austrian exchange lecturers in Ireland in collaboration with the Austrian Embassy Dublin, Austrian language schools, and Austrian Airlines, for one of four study trips to Austria in the summer of 2006.
Interested students should design a poster to promote Austria as a destination for language trips. The deadline is March 10th. Prizes include the costs for two- to three-week language courses in Vienna, Graz, Salzburg, and Klagenfurt, return flights from Dublin to Vienna, and accommodation. For further information, consult the German Department at NUI Galway (katharina.walter@nuigalway.ie) or the Austrian Embassy in Dublin (dublin-ob@bmaa.gv.at)
• Irish Hospice Foundation Loss and Bereavement Workshops This series of workshops is targeted at professionals and volunteers who may wish to learn more about loss and bereavement and for those working with people who have suffered a major loss.
Topics include: anticipatory grief (February 23rd); grief at work (February 24th); children and loss (March 9th/10th) There are a number of other workshops available.
For further details contact Iris Murray at the Irish Hospice Foundation. Tel: 01-6793188. E-mail: iris@hospice-foundation.ie Website: www.hospice-foundation.ie
• Inchicore College Open Day Inchicore College, Dublin is holding an open day on Friday, February 3rd. The college, which has over 800 full-time students and close to 100 full-time and part-time staff, provides vocational training across the following areas: sport, leisure and tourism; business, language and computer studies; caring services including social care, childcare, pre-nursing and nursery nursing and theatre studies.
All the courses at the college offer full FETAC certification allowing progression through the Higher Education Links Scheme. Many also offer the popular BTEC Higher National Diploma award. For further information tel: 01-4533330.
• ICT Conference for Primary and Post- Primary Teachers The Computer Education Society of Ireland (CESI) is holding its annual conference on Friday, February 10th and Saturday, February 11th at Coláiste de hÍde, Tallaght, Co Dublin.
Music and Information Communications Technology (ICT), digital whiteboards, laptops in schools, the schools broadband programme and introduction to networking will be among the many presentations delivered.
The conference will cater for those new to ICT and ICT veterans. Along with the main conference programme, there will be the opportunity to network with primary and post-primary teachers from around the State who share the same interests and concerns about the use of ICT in the classroom.
For further information, visit the CESI website at www.cesi.ie.
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