Expand+The Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme is an educational opportunities scheme for unemployed persons which is funded by the Department of Education and Science with assistance from the European Social Fund. The Scheme is operated through the Vo...

Hide-The Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme is an educational opportunities scheme for unemployed persons which is funded by the Department of Education and Science with assistance from the European Social Fund. The Scheme is operated through the Vocational Education Committees and provides a special range of courses designed to meet the education and training needs of unemployed people.

The aims of the scheme are:
- to give unemployed people education and training opportunities which will develop their employability

- to prepare people to go into paid employment or on to further opportunities leading to paid employment

Expand+Education: The learner who has either successfully completed a programme leading to a level 4 QQI Certificate OR can demonstrate the levels of knowledge, skill and competence associated with NFQ level 4 will be eligible to apply for entry to this pro...

Hide-Education: The learner who has either successfully completed a programme leading to a level 4 QQI Certificate OR can demonstrate the levels of knowledge, skill and competence associated with NFQ level 4 will be eligible to apply for entry to this programme. In order for the learner to have a realistic chance of achieving the standard of a level 5 award, it is expected that the learner should be able to:
• Proficiently read, draft, prepare and understand information across a broad range of topics, for example, in relation to a community concern or a work based plan or solution;

• Proficiently read, draft, prepare and understand quantitative information;

• Assume partial responsibility for consistency of self-understanding and behaviour;

• Solve predictable problems, independently and as part of a familiar and less familiar group;

• Demonstrate a range of practical and cognitive skills and tools;

• Act with a considerable amount of responsibility and autonomy;

• Attend timetabled classes for the duration of the programme;

• Complete self directed hours of learning in the form of practice time, preparation, study time and reflection time, as appropriate;

• Participate in all programme related activities; and

• Participate in work experience, as appropriate.

•Aptitude: See learner education

•Previous Experience: NA

Expand+Eligibility criteria are determined by the Department of Education and Skills.

To qualify for VTOS a person must:
- be at least 21 years of age at the commencement of the course,

- be in receipt of an unemployment payment or signing for c...

Hide-Eligibility criteria are determined by the Department of Education and Skills.

To qualify for VTOS a person must:
- be at least 21 years of age at the commencement of the course,

- be in receipt of an unemployment payment or signing for credits for at least 6 months*.

Also, the course must be provided or approved by the local VEC for the purposes of the VTOS scheme.

A limited number of places are available to persons in receipt of One Parent Family Payment, Disability Allowance, Illness Benefit, Blind Pension, Invalidity Pension, Deserted Wife's Benefit/Allowance, Widow's/Widower's Contributory/Non Contributory Pension and Prisoner's Wife's Allowance and to qualified spouses/partners of persons eligible to participate in VTOS.

Periods spent on VTOS, FS training schemes, Community Employment, Job Initiative, Youthreach or time in prison can count towards the 6 month qualifying period.

Expand+Learning Outcomes
Learners will be able to:
• Demonstrate a broad knowledge and some specialised analysis of historical and contemporary practice in a design field;
• Demonstrate an understanding of design principles as applied to a design conte...

Hide-Learning Outcomes
Learners will be able to:
• Demonstrate a broad knowledge and some specialised analysis of historical and contemporary practice in a design field;
• Demonstrate an understanding of design principles as applied to a design context including form, function, aesthetics, culture and society;
• Demonstrate conceptual thinking and critical analysis in the generation of an individual creative response to a client or self-initiated brief;
• Select and employ a varied range of methods and media to generate, develop and communicate creative solutions to design problems;
• Apply a design process to a particular design field, through a variety of projects ranging in scope from elementary to complex;
• Engage in a design process, subject to some supervision, as an individual designer in response to a client or self-inititated brief and or as a member of a design team;
• Take responsibility for own learning in a structured context;
• Evaluate their own performance in response to a brief with reference to specific objective design criteria;
• To provide a programme of learning that is vocational in nature and flexible in structure so that the learner has the maximum opportunity to improve his/her academic and vocational literacy, numerical, ICT and planning skills while participating in the programme;
• To afford the learner opportunities to enhance his/her confidence and ability to develop the skills to reach his/her full potential;
• To facilitate the learner to further develop his/her interpersonal, team working, problem solving and time management skills, as appropriate, so that the learner is enabled to take responsibility for his/her own learning and to support progression including future participation in education and employment;
• To provide the learner with vocationally specific knowledge, skill and competence at this level, thus affording the learner the opportunity to progress to programmes leading to awards at level 6 or above; and
• To facilitate the learner to reflect on and evaluate his/her performance while participating in the programme.

Ref: 24549

Facilities
•Free Parking
•Full Canteen

Expand+Communications (5N0690) QQI
Work Experience (5N1356) QQI
Image Processing 5N1292 QQI
Combined Materials 5N0764 QQI
Combined Materials 5N0764 QQI
Printmaking 5N1373 QQI
Printmaking 5N1373 QQI
Stained Glass 5N4515 QQI
Stained Glass 5N45...

Hide-Communications (5N0690) QQI
Work Experience (5N1356) QQI
Image Processing 5N1292 QQI
Combined Materials 5N0764 QQI
Combined Materials 5N0764 QQI
Printmaking 5N1373 QQI
Printmaking 5N1373 QQI
Stained Glass 5N4515 QQI
Stained Glass 5N4515 QQI
Design Skills 5N0784 QQI
Design Skills 5N0784 QQI
Drawing 5N1862 QQI
Drawing 5N1862 QQI
Desktop Publishing 5N0785 QQI
Desktop Publishing 5N0785 QQI
Word Processing 5N1358 QQI
Word Processing 5N1358 QQI
Word Processing 5N1358 QQI