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170 ICT jobs for Dublin have been announced from two companies in Ireland. Predictive sales acceleration platform InsideSales plans to hire 120 new staff over the next three years. The firm has also announced a new $50m (€46.8m) round of investment that includes the participation of the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, and signed a new partnership with Ireland’s Insight […]

Coursera is an educational technology company that offers massive open online courses (MOOCs). Coursera works with universities and other organizations to make some of their courses available online, offering courses in subjects such as physics, engineering, humanities, medicine, biology, social sciences, mathematics, business, computer science, digital marketing, and data science, among others. As of January 11, […]

Google’s planned Dublin Docklands expansion promises to create 400 new jobs. The move will bring Google’s employment in the capital to over 6,500 putting it on track to become Dublin’s largest private industrial employer. Currently Google employs over 6,000 people through a combination of 3,000 permanent staff and 3,000 contractors. The company’s vice president and outgoing […]

Seven hundred new jobs have been announced for Dublin by three companies in the technology and medical device sectors. Voxpro (400), LinkedIn, who has their EMEA headquarters in Dublin (200) and West Pharmaceutical Devices (100) are all expanding their Irish operations. Full story here.

A whole new suite of professional education part time programmes have been designed by CCT faculty, to be commenced next in February 2017.  These industry backed and inspired programmes will be of various durations, level, and will be skills based across the following main streams / fields:  Web Design & Development, Coding, Networking, Systems Administration, […]

We are delighted to announce the creation of a new role as an integral part of the CCT Senior Management Team, Head of Student Services.  Striving to ensure the effective pastoral care of enrolled learners, within a positive learning experience and environment at CCT, this role will be occupied by Kathleen Shehan, who commences employment […]

Our College participated in the National Teaching Heroes initiative over the last year, which was organised and led by the National Forum for Enhancement of Teaching and Learning.  The National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in partnership with the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) presented 37 Teaching Hero […]

CCT is delighted to announce that the Graduation Ceremony for the class of 2016 will take place on November 11th from 2pm, at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin 8.  The ceremony will be attended by graduands, families, friends, and distinguished guests and speakers. We look forward to this special day.  

Registration for the 9th annual International Conference on Engaging Pedagogy is now open at www.icep.ie/register. Workshops are on December 1 and the main conference is on December 2 at Maynooth University. The Irish Conference on Engaging Pedagogy (www.icep.ie) is celebrating its 9th year in 2016. In 2015 CCT was proud to host the 8th annual conference. […]

New figures from Eurostat, the EU statistical office highlight the education, age and gender of ICT specialists across the EU and within individual states. Highly educated ICT workforce 77.5% of Ireland’s ICT professionals have a third-level degree. This is well above the EU average of 60%. Ireland is only surpassed in this regard by Spain and Lithuania. […]