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+Enrolment Ongoing. Start Date: Mid-September.

How To Apply:
Call into our centre at The Enterprise Centre, Main Road, Tallaght, Dublin 24.

Call us on Tel: (01) 451 5733 or email us at taes-info@ddletb.ie.

What Happens Next?:
Applicants...

Hide-Enrolment Ongoing. Start Date: Mid-September.

How To Apply:
Call into our centre at The Enterprise Centre, Main Road, Tallaght, Dublin 24.

Call us on Tel: (01) 451 5733 or email us at taes-info@ddletb.ie.

What Happens Next?:
Applicants are invited to take part in a short assessment to ensure they have applied for the right course to suit their current skills and needs. They may then be assisted with their choice of course by the Adult Educational Guidance Service. Eligible applicants will then be offered a place on a course relevant to their needs and interests.

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.