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‘I do get asked: do you feel that you missed out on the college experience? The answer: absolutely not,’ says one apprentice

No degree? No problem. Growing numbers of companies are looking beyond third-level qualification as a recruitment requirement

From PLCs to apprenticeships and private colleges, there have never been so many choices for school-leavers seeking a career path

Jacob Haskins didn’t have enough points to secure his first CAO choice so he took an alternative route to UCD

Q&A: What do students need to spend on? Are textbooks a mandatory purchase?

The first step for students considering a resit is it to review your scripts to see where you might have gone wrong

Here are alternatives to explore when college offers disappoint - because the CAO is no longer the only game in town

Moment of truth arrives for thousands of CAO applicants as first college offers are issued

Q&A: How does a traineeship work and am I eligible to apply?

How I did it: Shannon Kearney did an apprenticeship in engineering and now works as a metrology engineer

Attitudes to further education have changed in recent years, and today’s students have more options than ever before

Focus shifting from CAO points race and the pressure it puts on students to alternative routes to third-level education

New opportunities in a range of industries, supports for students with disadvantaged backgrounds and back to education allowances

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