National Learning Network provides training and specialist support
SECONDARY students across county Wexford are dreaming of a Final appearance in Croke Park in 2020 as the Local Enterprise Offices’ Student Enterprise Programme for 2019 / 2020 was launched.
The programme, which is Ireland’s largest business and enterprise programme for second level students, was launched by Pat Breen, T.D., Minister for Trade, Employment, Business, EU Digital Single Market and Data Protection and rugby star Josh Van Der Flier. Van der Flier is the Student Enterprise Programme Ambassador for 2019 / 2020 and a former participant in the programme while a student in Wesley College in Dublin.
Over 1,000 students from 18 secondary schools in Wexford are taking part in this year’s Programme in the hope of making the National Finals in Croke Park on the 1st May. The enterprise education initiative, funded by the Government of Ireland through Enterprise Ireland and delivered by the 31 Local Enterprise Offices in local authorities throughout the country, saw over 25,000 students from 515 secondary schools across the country take part in 2018 / 2019.
This year’s Programme will see two new pilot competitions across the Junior, Intermediate and Senior categories. “My Entrepreneurial Journey” pilot allows students at involved in the wider competition to map out the life of a successful entrepreneur and consider what makes the selected entrepreneur successful. In the Senior Category, there is a new “Most Creative Business Idea” section. Under the theme “Go Green: Be Sustainable” students can push their most innovative ideas, without having to produce a product or service and it is open to all senior students taking part in the wider competition. Students present their ideas through a video pitch. A new comprehensive website is also available to guide students www. studententerprise.ie
NATIONAL Learning Network provides training and specialist support to people who, for a variety of reasons, may find it difficult to gain employment. Whatever your circumstances – whether you are long-term unemployed, have an illness or a disability – National Learning Network can help you overcome obstacles and move forward with your career and your life. Every year, over 5,000 people of all ages and from all walks of life, come to learn and study with us at our training centres which are located in almost every county in Ireland. As Ireland’s largest non-governmental training and education organisation, we offer over 70 different training programmes from art and cookery to computer and business skills. Over 90 per cent of those who completed our programmes last year moved on to employment or to further education and training. For more information on what FREE courses Wexford’s
National Learning Network has on offer, feel free to call into our Open Day on the 29th January in the Swan Training Centre, The Faythe, Wexford from 10am to 3pm!