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Working full time and can’t commit to full time study? Bishopstown Campus are here to help. We offer subsidised upskilling courses for those in employment through the SOLAS funded Skills to Advance initiative. These course are designed to enhance your professional development and career advancement.

What is Skills to Advance?

Skills to Advance is a SOLAS initiative to provides heavily subsidised upskilling and reskilling workplace learning opportunities to employees.

Under Skills to Advance, Bishopstown Campus offers:

Open upskilling courses for all in employment.
Bespoke upskilling courses designed for a company or network of companies.

Upskilling courses for all in employment:

If you are looking to engage in an upskilling course, to enhance your skills and advance your career, then we have the course for you.

Throughout the year we run a range of open courses, available heavily subsided to all in employment, in the areas of:

Construction & Engineering
Business & Administration
Computer Science & Information Technology
Environment & Horticulture
Health, Children & Social Studies

If you are currently working you can directly sign up for one of our open courses, advertised on our website or on www.fetchcourses.ie. Once you self-declare that you are in employment, the course will be offered at no cost.

Courses generally start in September, January and April. All courses are accredited and certified and available part time. Our courses are scheduled to run by day, in the afternoon and evening so there is always a course available at a time that suits you.

Can’t find what you are looking for? Contact us on skillstoadvance@corketb.ie and we will be happy to talk through some options with you.

Bespoke courses designed for Small and Medium Enterprises

If you are a company who wants to develop workplace learning opportunities for your employees for their continuing education, then we are here to help! The Skills to Advance team will work with you to co-design a professional development course for your team. We will work with you to identify the skills gap in your organisation and to design an upskilling course to meet your business needs.

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The collaborative and inclusive learning  & development approach embraced by the Cork College of FET in the programmes we have developed and delivered have been met with a resoundingly positive response from learners across the CEIA network. The inclusive approach to learning means that our high potential, high performing team members get to learn from experts and peers and in securing more skills and learning more about themselves. All this while building a relevant local network for themselves and their organization makes programmes such as these designed and delivered locally by the Cork College of FET hugely valuable.

Alan O’Flynn
Chair of the Cork Electronics Industry Association (CEIA)

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From the first conversation with the Cork College of FET, Bishopstown Campus team it was clear that an effective partnership was being established with Dell Technologies. The support from Cork College of FET, Bishopstown Campus team to help Dell Technologies understand our options on course structure, module selection, and virtual delivery was key to a successful launch. The Cork College of FET, Bishopstown Campus team worked with us to understand our learning objectives to build a pipeline of diverse leaders and upskill our team members and provided flexible options to set up us for success. We look forward to an ongoing collaborative relationship with the Cork College of FET, Bishopstown Campus.

Marguerite Coleman
Chief of Staff, Cork Campus Operations Dell Technologies Cork

Contact Us:

Interested in finding out more? Email us at skillstoadvance@corketb.ie. We are happy to talk to you and help you design bespoke training solutions for your business. We look forward to working with you to help boost your business.

E: skillstoadvance@corketb.ie

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