Ireland's first language school which teaches medical English exclusively is training nurses for recruitment abroad.
"Virtually all the nurses will end up working outside Ireland, primarily in the USA, Canada and the UK," says Eurocollege director Ray Gunning.
The school's first students, all from China, enrolled in March last year and are due to graduate shortly.
All of them work part-time for a maximum of 20 hours per week as nursing assistants which gives them the experience and exposure of working in an English-speaking environment.
The first Korean students arrive this month and "we are also processing the first Indian students", Mr Gunning adds.
Teaching is based at the school in Balgriffin, Co Dublin and also at the Trinity School of Nursing on the grounds of St James's Hospital.
During the course, students review all the main areas of their nursing training, under the tuition of teachers who hold both medical and language teaching qualifications.
Given that the students' preferred destination is the US, the American nursing theory exam, NPLEX, is a significant part of the school's course. According to Mr Gunning, there are 14,000 nursing vacancies in the USA at present "and this number is set to double".
He was surprised at the shortage of nurses in China, particularly in Shanghai and Beijing, he said.
"There are a lot of US recruitment agencies in Beijing and India is flooded with them," he said.
Eurocollege always works through the health authorities in the countries in which it is recruiting.
In China, where the authorities give loans to nurses to train with the Irish school, this co-operation is helped by company director Lin Lin Li from Beijing, who is based here.
While most students are currently nurses, the school is developing a course for doctors. "We will be targeting India and Pakistan as there is a lot of movement of doctors from those countries to the US and UK," Mr Gunning says.