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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. […]

LinkedIn have unveiled the Top Skills of 2016, the skills most sought after by employers. The top ten skills are released for the global marketplace, as well as in 18 specific countries including Ireland. ICT/computing form eight of the top ten skills most in demand in Ireland. Cloud and Distributed Computing tops the Irish list for the second year in a row, […]

The Irish Times has reported that Irish education authorities will today announce plans attract 37,000 additional international students to Irish colleges and universities by 2020. This push has been raised by the UK’s Brexit vote, leaving Ireland as the only English-speaking member of the European Union. The plan aims to increase the economic value of international education to €2.1 billion by […]

The Government has published an action plan aimed at making the Irish education and training system the best in Europe by 2026. The plan will run over the next three years and will include hundreds of actions to be implemented with a focus on disadvantage, skills, and improvements within the education service. Some of these goals […]

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has compiled the data for earnings and labour costs for the first half of 2016, and with that has revealed the best-paid jobs in Ireland. The average ICT wage is €1,063.89 per week. Full story here.  

A record high of 52,289 offers were made by the CAO today, with points for many hi-tech, business and construction-related courses jumping this year. Along with a rise in CAO offers, the starting salaries of IT and business graduates is on the rise. Overall, computer science/information and communications technology (ICT) honours bachelor degree graduates were […]