Course Summary
Course Category: PLC (Further Education - FET) - Apply directly to College
This creative entrepreneurship course will help all those embarking on an innovative design career pathway and help them home in on their entrepreneurial and marketing skills. Lots of small creative businesses are set up in Ireland every year, but the owners in many cases have no experience of business, entrepreneurship, or marketing skills and this can have a devastating effect on the ultimate success of a new business.
This course hopes to bridge some of the missing gaps in the skills required by business owners and help keep their businesses viable. Creative Entrepreneurship aims at putting an emphasis on the importance of entrepreneurial skills to a creative business, thus enable it to thrive, expand, have longevity and be profitable.
Course Details
This course prepares you for working in the following Career Sectors:
What will you study?
Progression to CAO Courses
Higher Education Links Scheme (HELS)
This course leads to a QQI Major Award, and provides progression opportunities to a number of Higher Education courses, including those in the CAO.
To view CAO courses to which this award provides a possible progression route, click below:
| QQI Code |
| 5M2208 |
To calculate Points based on your QQI award results, use the PLC Points Calculator.
The Student - Career Interests
This course is typically suited for people with the following Career Interests:
Enterprising
Enterprising people like situations that involve using resources for personal or corporate economic gain. Such people may have an opportunistic frame of mind, and are drawn to commerce, trade and making deals. Some pursue sales and marketing occupations. Many will eventually end up owning their own business, or in management roles in larger organisations. They tend to be very goal-oriented and work best when focused on a target. Some have an entrepreneurial inclination.
Further Research
National Statistics for this Award (All Ireland)
The following data provides general information about this Award from colleges across Ireland.
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