Get hands-on experience in cooking, food service, and hospitality.

If you enjoy working with food and helping others, this course is a great way to start your journey in the catering and food service industry. The Catering Programme offers practical, real-life training in kitchen and customer service skills, all in a supportive and structured environment.

You’ll learn how to prepare and serve food safely, work as part of a team, and deliver great service. You’ll also get the chance to practice your skills on work placement with local employers, giving you valuable experience that can lead to a job or further training.

Are you ready to unleash your creativity and take your passion for art to the next level? This QQI Level 6 Art course is designed to provide you with a broad education base in ceramics and fine art. You’ll have the opportunity to explore new ways of working and expand your practice in drawing, painting, and ceramics while making connections between all three mediums.

Dunboyne College’s Film and Media Production course is ideal for anyone with an interest in film and visual storytelling who wishes to explore the creative and technical aspects of filmmaking. It offers a solid introduction to key areas such as camera work, directing, editing, and scriptwriting. Through hands-on experience with industry-standard equipment and software, students gain the skills and confidence needed to begin working in the field or to progress to further study.

This traineeship will provide you with the knowledge and competencies in both theory (classroom based) and practice (work based), necessary for employment in the accounting and payroll sector.

On this course you will complete both the ACCA Diploma in Accounting and Business and the QQI Level 6 Special Purpose Award in Payroll Techniques certified by IPASS, the Irish Payroll These are industry standard qualifications and will provide you with opportunities for further and higher education progression within these two sectors.

This programme has been designed to enable participants to develop the knowledge and skills necessary to carry out risk assessment for chainsaw operations including maintenance and sawing and be able to complete maintenance to the chainsaw. On completion participants will be able to outline the safe operation of a chainsaw during use including interpreting safety decals, safety devices fitted to the chainsaw and cross cutting operations and be capable of completing a number of chainsaw cutting techniques correctly and safety ensuring that the correct storage including cleaning, sharpening and setting is completed.

This programme has been designed to enable participants to develop the knowledge and skills necessary to carry out risk assessment for chainsaw operations including maintenance and sawing and be able to complete maintenance to the chainsaw. On completion participants will be able to outline the safe operation of a chainsaw during use including interpreting safety decals, safety devices fitted to the chainsaw and cross cutting operations and be capable of completing a number of chainsaw cutting techniques correctly and safety ensuring that the correct storage including cleaning, sharpening and setting is completed.

This hands-on, immersive sculpting workshop takes participants from concept and anatomy study through to a finished character bust over five intensive studio days. An initial online orientation covers design principles, materials, and preparation. The in-studio block then focuses on practical sculpting techniques — from blocking and anatomy to surface detail and final presentation.

The course emphasizes observation, iteration, and professional industry techniques in character sculpture.

The Chef de Partie Apprenticeship is an ‘earn and learn’ degree programme that combines on-the-job training with academic study in a Technological University.

A Chef de Partie is trained to: deliver advanced culinary skills in a professional kitchen; supervise a particular area or station within the kitchen; work on their own as well as train Commis Chefs.

The Chef de Partie Apprenticeship is an ‘earn and learn’ degree programme that combines on-the-job training with academic study in a Technological University.

A Chef de Partie is trained to: deliver advanced culinary skills in a professional kitchen; supervise a particular area or station within the kitchen; work on their own as well as train Commis Chefs.

The Chef de Partie Apprenticeship programme is designed to expose you to a wide range of culinary skills and ideas and allows you to not only learn how to do something, but understand why it is done a certain way.

The Chef de Partie Apprenticeship programme is a collaboration between industry and academic professionals so you will learn the skills, knowledge and behaviours necessary for a successful career that will take you anywhere in the world.

The apprenticeships combines classroom training with hands-on practical skills development in the workplace. You follow a structured path of learning to build your knowledge and skills from a basic to advanced level. Your work-based mentor will monitor and help you progress through the apprenticeship and you will learn how your college based learning links to your everyday working environment.

The apprenticeships are ‘earn and learn’ degree programmes that combine on-the-job training with academic study in an Institute of Technology. The lead industry partner for this apprenticeship is the Restaurants Association of Ireland.

Chemical Engineering is all about change; creating life enhancing products and services by applying scientific and mathematical understanding to design, control and improve processes that change raw materials into useful products. Chemical Engineers are world leaders in producing medicines, clean energy and water and other key products in a cost effective, safe and environmentally-friendly manner.

This programme focuses on the practical application of chemistry. You will be studying an exciting mixture of modules including how to make medicines and how to control the quality of those medicines. Year one involves the study of a range of Science modules, and the subject matter covered in year two of this course includes Chemistry, Analysis of materials, Computing and Microbiological analysis. The course will introduce students to the importance of quality control and quality management in the manufacturing and processing of pharmaceutical and healthcare products. 

The B.E. (Hons.) Chemical & Biochemical Engineering provides an interesting, intellectually challenging, and educationally rigorous degree programme that leads to a professionally recognised qualification and good employment prospects in any of a variety of stable, sustainable, well-paid careers. This degree programme comprises formal lectures/study, practical laboratories, workshops, training on industry-standard process engineering software, project work, as well as a substantial Cooperative Education period working in an industrial placement.