IT Sligo receives funding for apprenticeship programmes

Fine Gael T.D. and Assistant Whip, Tony McLoughlin has announced that € 578,277 in funding has been allocated to IT Sligo today for capital investment works in order to enable it to increase it s apprenticeship capacit y. This is par t of an allocation over € 8m for 10 Institutes of Technology across the countr y announced this morning by the Fine Gael led Government.

Deput y McLoughlin said that “This new funding allocation for

I T Sligo will enable it to purchase new machiner y and equipment and to carr y out enabling works for the implementation of new programmes and for the development of new Electrical apprenticeships in the college.

“This announcement comes on the back of a separate positive announcement for St. Angela’s College, l ast week which received € 350,000 in Government funding in order to enable the College increase it s Home Economics classes capacit y.

“I think that both these announcements show the Government’s commitments towards improving the educational options available to people in this regions as well as showing that Sligo and the Northwest region in general are the focus of their attention.”