Irish Vocational Education Association

An Cumann Gairmoideachais in Éirinn

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Annual Congress

North
- Cavan
- Donegal
- Monaghan
South
East
- Carlow
- Kildare
- Kilkenny
- Louth
- Meath
- Wexford
- Wicklow
West
- Clare
- City of Galway
- Co. Galway
- Leitrim
- Mayo
- Roscommon
- Sligo
Midlands
- Laois
- Longford
- Offaly
- Westmeath
Dublin

Further Education / Training Provision

While several other providers inhabit the Irish Adult and Further Education landscape, the VEC sector, with arguably more learners than all other providers combined , is the most pervasively significant as it covers the full gamut of provision and embodies the policy objectives for Life Long Learning set out in the Irish government's White Paper on Adult Education as summarised immediately below.

Lifelong learning is the governing principle of education policy.
Lifelong learning should embrace personal, cultural, social and economic goals and be seen to promote both collective and personal advancement.
Lifelong learning should explicitly address the needs of marginalised groups and enhance the role of community education providers.
Lifelong learning focuses on people learning, rather than merely being recipients of education, and is not only lifelong but life-wide and occurs in different settings - schools/centres, workplaces, homes, community, etc.

The diagram above provides an overview of what VECs provide in the area of adult and further education and the table at the end of this page provides a statistical snapshot of VEC-involvement in this field. Both of these illustrate the extent to which VEC-delivery reflects the aspirations expressed in the White Paper and they are a testament to the degree to which VECs facilitate the implementation of government policy in respect of the Life Long Learning agenda.

To assist your navigation through the various adult and further education programmes delivered by VECs, each programme is described in the links below. Each link is ordered in the same way in which it appears in the above diagram (left to right) and in the sequence in which its statistical details are provided in the table below.

Programmes for Early School Leavers

Second Chance Adult Learners

VEC-wide Provision

Participation in Adult & Further Education in Ireland 2007

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