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4 News: Education snapshot shows changes in the system over the past five years 5 News: Mixed reaction to patronage decisions for four new schools; €31m for summer works scheme in 2021 7 News: Numbers using DARE and HEAR increase 9 Montessori for adults with dementia at St. Nicholas Montessori 10 News: Maths guide for National School and Junior Cycle Parents; New council Chair for Griffith College 11 FEATURE: The Choose Tech Programme at FIT
36 The accessible library you have never heard of... at NCBI 38 Launch your beauty career at Blackrock Further Education Institute 40 University Learning in the North West at St. Angela's College 42 Record graduate success for Dunboyne College 45-54 COVER STORY: A Global Success Story - Engineering and Innovation at Munster Technological University
16 FEATURE: Army Engineer Graduate Programme
56 Want to go to college? Not enough points? Sorted...come to DFEi
21 News: UCC appoints its first female Head of the College of Science, Engineering and Food Science; Oral Irish lessons on zoom for primary school children
58 A broad range of further education opportunities at Crumlin College
22 FEATURE: Following an immunologist's dream to use the immune system to cure cancer
62 Sallynoggin College students are looking forward to a bright future
27 Study History & Geography in GMIT 28 Part-time Study Options at NUI Galway 30 FEATURE: A Socio-Economy of Ireland's Third Level students
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60 The Pathway to YOUR Future at Liberties College
65 Inchicore College - your future starts here 66 Training Services at Kilkenny and Carlow ETB 69 News: Ineffective age controls putting children at risk on social media; Ireland’s first free voluntary tax clinic arrives in NUI Galway 70 Reviews - recently published books
Cover Picture - A Global Success Story - Engineering and Innovation at Munster Technological University Cathal Merz, Master of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering, Munster Technological University, whose project on “Test Method Development for Evaluation of Process and Design Effect on Reinforced Tube”, carried out under
the supervision of Dr. Gareth O’Donnell and Professor Ger Kelly, won Best Presentation Award at the ICBBBS 2020 Barcelona International Conference on Biotechnology, Bioengineering and Biological Solutions
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