Using our professional standard iMac suite, you will create projects to develop your skills in illustration, drawing, image creation, photography, and much more. You will build on these practical creative skills and generate and evolve ideas to finished illustrative products. In addition, you will produce a portfolio of work for progression to Higher Education and your future career, becoming proficient in the Adobe suite of software (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and more), building on these skills for real live projects and your art portfolio.

Graphic Design Level 5 (5M1995) is a practical 1 year course that will enable learners to engage with key Graphic Design, Art and Design and ICT components. Key practical components are delivered in a highly resourced Art, Craft and Design room and Apple Mac Lab.

Learners also have the opportunity to develop a high quality portfolio of work for use in accessing higher education courses and will have access to Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator licences.

The training required for ITEC produces beauty therapists that are an asset to any salon. It is the highest standard in Beauty Therapy qualifications. ITEC graduates are recognised by employers as therapists who work harder and aim higher. An ITEC Beauty Therapy qualification is an internationally recognised beauty qualification.

This one year business course is designed for students interested in pursuing a career in Administration and Reception. Opportunities exist in a wide variety of different office environments including legal, medical, civil service, commercial and educational. Modules such as Text Production, Bookkeeping, Payroll and Office Administration provide graduates with essential skills required in a busy office environment.

This course is designed to prepare students for front-line receptionist duties with a particular emphasis on a Medical/Health Service environment. This course not only equips the learner with the administrative and IT skills needed to work in a modern office but also develops transversal skills which are sought after in today’s working environment. In addition, the Medical Terminology module equips the learner with the knowledge, skill and competence in the range of medical terminology applicable and relevant specifically to a medical receptionist or secretarial role in a medical practice, clinic and or hospital context.

This course is highly intensive and is open to Post Leaving Certificate Students and Mature Students.

This course delivers excellent results. Learners gain the essential skills required to work in administration in a legal, medical, or business setting.

Students who have completed this highly popular course have gone on to work in legal firms, the courts service, private and public hospitals, doctors’ surgeries, community health centres and in the general area of business administration working as executive secretaries/pa assistants. We also have an industry partnership with the Mater Private Hospital and St Vincent’s Private Hospital which has resulted in full-time contracts being offered to some recent graduates following work placement.