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HIGHER EDUCATION IN WEXFORD

An often-repeated mantra where about 900 students take enterprises as well as entrepreneurs
used by business people and courses in the likes of business, and innovators, the project helps
employers in Wexford and sustainable architectural to transform ideals and creativity
the southeast is the quality technology, economics, visual into “a competitive tool for
and quantity of third-level communications and design, innovative new products and
and fourth-level graduates social studies, art, and early services,” according to the college.
emerging from the many childhood studies. Participants are also given an
reputable institutions within the Those coming out of second- individual mentor for the duration
catchment area.
level education can undertake of the programme, which launches
Wexford town finds itself at full-time and part-time courses early each year, to guide them
the apex of a triangle of highly- from certificate level right up through the process, as well as
regarded higher education to honours degree level and access to business incubation
colleges, boasting its own campus the college’s Lifelong Learning centres in Wexford, Carlow,
on a beautiful site overlooking the programme is aimed at adults Kilkenny and Wicklow.
urban area and the sea. who want to upgrade their skills Part-financed by the European
and training or embark on a new
Just over an hour away is the main Regional Development Fund,
campus of Institute of Technology educational path. through the Ireland Wales
Carlow (IT Carlow) and its dozens About 40 miles away in Carlow Programme, it’s jointly delivered
of courses across a multitude of town is the main IT Carlow by IT Carlow and Pembrokeshire
disciplines. A half-hour’s drive campus which is regarded as County Council.
ABOVE: along the southeastern corridor one of the most innovative and The main business of the
Wexford will take you to Waterford forward-thinking of its kind in the
campus, institute, of course, is third-level
IT Carlow Institute of Technology which has country. education, and programmes of
expanded beyond all recognition Just one example of the vision study are offered across the School
in recent years to become one shown by its management and of Business and Humanities,
of the go-to third-level colleges academics is an initiative known School of Science and School of
for school-leavers not just across as the INSPIRE (Initiating Engineering.
the region but across the entire Pathways for Innovators,
country. In the school of business, just a
Researchers and Entrepreneurs) flavour of the courses available
Wexford’s own third-level programme. includes international business;
institution is a campus of IT Aimed at small and medium management; supply chain
Carlow, off Summerhill Road,

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