Tallaght Adult Learners' Fair, 23rd January 2007

Tallaght Adult Learners' Fair
Tuesday 23, January 2007 11.00 - 21.00
Institute of Technology, Tallaght - Co. Dublin

This unique fair brings together all those involved in community, further and higher education in Tallaght, to promote and celebrate the wide range of opportunities for lifelong learning in the area.

Agencies and organisations that can offer information, advice and support to adult learners who want to access education will also be present.

The fair will be of interest to adults who would like to return to learning - maybe for the first time since they left school - or for those who are on a course at present and would like to find out where to go next. It will also be a great opportunity for those who are considering a career change or who would like to improve their current career prospects. It will offer a chance to get information and advice and to meet people involved in all stages of adult education in an informal setting.

Entry to the fair is free. All adults with an interest in finding out more about adult education are welcome. Further information is available from Maggie Ryan, Access Officer, Insitute of Technology, Tallaght, Email:
Maggie.Ryan@ittdublin.ie

This event is organised in collaboration with ITT Dublin, Co. Dublin VEC, the Tallaght Partnership and FÁS.

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"Proud to Live in Tallaght" Workbook Launched

Pat Rabbitte, T.D. launched the "Proud to Live in Tallaght" activity workbook for schoolchildren in Tallaght on Monday 13th November in the Dublin West Education Centre. The workbook, designed by local teacher Robert O'Leary, is dubbed "An activity book for children in Tallaght schools" and is accompanied by a Website, tallaght4kids, which was sponsored by the DWEC and Tallaght Partnership.

In the Foreword, Gerard McHugh, Director of the DWEC says: "The purpose of our activity book is to demonstrate why we are proud of Tallaght, to help us to become aware of its reality and its potential and to renew the ambition of a new generation of inhabitants in Tallaght, in this era encompassing citizens who have come from all over the globe. The activity book does not attempt to present all there is to know about Tallaght, rather it provides us with enough information about interesting aspects of Tallaght's past and present that we want to embark on a discovery to find out more and more of that past and present. Furthermore it encourages us to discuss Tallaght, to reflect on it, to explore, to investigate and to discover. Ultimately this activity book envisages a new generation of Tallaght's young people demonstrating their pride in their own place by wishing to emulate the positive achievements of the past and present and by creating their own new history which will inspire generations to come. This activity book, rather than being the end of one phase, is the beginning of exciting, positive and interesting further phases in reflecting about Tallaght's potential and assisting in the realisation of that very positive potential."

The book has been distributed to all Senior Primary Schools in the Tallaght area.