• It is a stand-alone qualification for employment as a Care Assistant/Healthcare Worker
• It can also be used as a route to 3rd Level Education

Students are offered a practical and theoretical introduction to a career in the caring field.

This course gives students a realistic understanding of what the world of work entails and the required qualification for working as care/care assistants.

This course prepares learners for professional roles as Healthcare Assistants (HCAs) by providing essential training in care skills, geriatric care, and infection prevention. Designed for both clinical and community settings, the curriculum emphasizes practical competency and safety, ensuring graduates are fully equipped to deliver high-quality support within hospitals, nursing homes, and home care environments.

The purpose of the Healthcare Support QQI Level 5 programme provides learners with the essential knowledge, practical skills, and professional competencies required to work as Healthcare Assistants across hospitals, nursing homes, community care, and social care environments.

This comprehensive major award develops person centred care skills while preparing students for further education in nursing, health science and social care pathways.

• To facilitate the learner to explore healthcare support with a view to re-skilling/up-skilling and exploring concepts and subject areas that may interest the learner in future programmes or employment
• To facilitate the learner to plan, develop and implement appropriate Healthcare strategies that contribute to the health and well being a wide range of client groups in a range of health care settings.
• To facilitate the contribute to planning, implementing and evaluating processes in providing holistic client centred care safely and effectively.
• 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

Gain knowledge and skills to provide healthcare support. This includes recognising individual needs, providing assisted care and maintaining a safe, hygienic environment.

This traineeship includes 10 weeks of work placement, which is a key component of this course.

This programme is a culmination of a two-year development process, during which there was extensive consultation with the healthcare sector. It has been developed specifically for healthcare assistants to provide them with a pathway from Further Education and Training (FET) at Level 5 to this programme at Higher Education and Training (HET) Level 6.

The Healthcare Support Traineeship at Cavan and Monaghan ETB (CMETB) is a fully funded, practical training program designed to equip learners with the vital skills, knowledge, and competencies required to work as professional Healthcare Workers. Co-funded by the Irish Government and the European Union, this course blends classroom theory with an extensive, year-long work experience component that allows students to apply their knowledge directly in real-world settings while showcasing their potential to prospective employers. To support learners, the traineeship provides additional financial benefits, including Training, Meal, Travel, or Accommodation allowances, alongside access to the National Childcare Scheme.

This program is specifically designed to meet the growing demands of the transport and logistics industry by training professional drivers to obtain a Category C (Heavy Goods Vehicle - Rigid) license. The curriculum covers all aspects of operating large rigid-body vehicles, including advanced driving maneuvers, vehicle safety checks, and load securing techniques. By combining practical behind-the-wheel training with essential theory, the course ensures that learners are fully prepared to pass their driving tests and operate high-capacity vehicles safely and efficiently on public roads.

The Category C+E (Articulated Truck) program is an advanced professional training course designed to qualify drivers for the highest level of heavy goods vehicle operation. This course focuses on the mastery of "Artic" vehicles, covering complex maneuvers such as coupling and uncoupling trailers, precision reversing, and navigating large-scale vehicles through diverse road environments. Students will gain deep expertise in vehicle safety systems, advanced load distribution, and international transport regulations. 

The BA (Honours) in Heritage Studies has an applied focus and is interdisciplinary in nature – linking heritage with history, geography, archaeology, tourism, genealogy, museum studies, folklore, literature, planning, computing, digital media, business and languages. This programme is particularly appropriate for students wishing to acquire a broader knowledge and understanding of the built, cultural and natural heritages of Ireland, Europe and the wider world.

It will also provide you with an understanding of the role that heritage resource management plays in the safeguarding of archaeological and historic sites, national monuments, architecture, artefacts, archives, cultural landscapes and identities, habitats, flora and fauna.

This two-year Higher Certificate in Heritage Studies at GMIT Galway campus provides students with a broad-based knowledge and understanding of the built, cultural, natural, and digital heritages of Ireland and Europe.

Heritage involves the practical application and use of the past in the present – in heritage tourism, visitor attractions, museum exhibitions, public history, community archaeology, conservation/restoration projects, festivals, reenactments, commemorations, national identities, genealogy, film, TV, radio, libraries, archives, and creative digitalisation.

This course is ideal for individuals who are passionate about local history, Irish culture, and the environment, and who want to play an active role in their community. Whether you’re interested in preserving heritage, supporting sustainable tourism, or contributing to cultural and environmental projects, this course offers a pathway. Learners explore Ireland’s rich traditions through folklore, archaeology, literature, and the arts, while also gaining knowledge of ecotourism and sustainability. The course supports progression to further education or employment in tourism, heritage, and community development roles.

This program provides students with a unique gateway into a field that has quadrupled in size, offering direct access to the latest tools, techniques, and mentorship from award-winning studios. Through a curriculum designed for both the domestic and global markets—enriched by masterclasses and guest lectures—learners gain hands-on experience in character creation, storytelling, and visual effects. Whether aiming to develop original IP or work on major international franchises, graduates are equipped with the technical skills and professional network necessary to thrive in Ireland’s fastest-growing screen

The History modules at Trinity allow you to study a remarkable range of types of history—whether cultural or political history, military or social history, environmental history or the history of ideas—from the early Middle Ages to the very recent past.

We offer survey modules allowing you to grasp the broad patterns in history, specialist modules where you can study topics of particular interest to you in small classes, and opportunities for you to pursue your own independent research.

History is vital to understanding the world around us. What is gender, race, class, religion, the state, empire, capitalism? What is the USA, China, the United Kingdom, Ireland? What is NATO and the EU? Our historians explain the modern world by reaching back to the Roman empire, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Reformation and the great modern revolutions across all of Europe, North America, Africa, and Asia.

From first year, students are entrusted to make choices and range widely across all these histories to understand where we have come from. From the beginning of your degree, you will be taught in small groups by expert historians.

History and Politics is a classic combination of subjects for students looking to investigate the workings of government and society in contemporary and historical perspectives. You will examine why society has changed and seek to understand the issues facing societies across the globe today. Through both subjects, the course will teach you the essential skills of writing, critical thinking, evaluating evidence, and assessing data. This course offers an excellent interdisciplinary preparation by combining historical research with political science.

History is the pursuit of how we got here and the stories that we tell ourselves to explain the past. Working from ordinary to extraordinary, local to global, fact to fiction, you’ll develop critical thinking, argument and analysis skills that lie at the heart of careers in media, government, culture and education.

History is the pursuit of how we got here and the stories that we tell ourselves to explain the past. Working from ordinary to extraordinary, local to global, fact to fiction, you’ll develop critical thinking, argument and analysis skills that lie at the heart of careers in media, government, culture and education.