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Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Patrick O’Donovan officially opened the new apprenticeship training facility in Galway Roscommon ETB’s Mervue Campus on Monday.

The recent GRETB (Galway and Roscommon Education and Training Board) graduation ceremony highlighted the success and growth of apprenticeship programmes throughout Galway and Roscommon.

Galway and Roscommon Education Training Board welcomed Senator Seán Kyne, on behalf of Minister for Further and Higher Education Simon Harris, who unveiled the allocation of funding for two vital projects managed by the Galway and Roscommon Education and Training Board (GRETB). The Petersburg Outdoor Education and Training Centre in Clonbur and the GRETB Training Centre in Mervue, Galway, are set to benefit from the latest wave of capital investment under the Further Education and Training (FET) Strategic Infrastructure Upgrade Fund.

Capital funding has been approved for two Galway-based education facilities run by the Galway and Roscommon Education and Training Board.

Galway’s reputation as a educational location par excellence received a €110m boost this week when funding commitments for the creation of a College of the Future and an expansion of ATU Galway were both announced.

Current Car — David Leahy is the Chief Executive Officer of the Galway Roscommon Education and Training Board. Fitting for the former history teacher, his driving past is varied and interesting. Currently the owner of an Audi A6, his first car was actually a van. Remembered by David as ‘a great little servant’, the 1991 Toyota Starlet, transported David from Trinity College to his lodgings saving him the twenty mile daily cycle.The Starlet saw him through the naughties, and was replaced by a series of cars, including a Nissan Almera, Saab 95 and a much loved Land Rover Defender.

Galway and Roscommon ETB has launched its strategy statement for 2022-2026. It sets out the ETB’s mission over the next five years to provide, develop and support education, training and youth services which empower people to reach their potential and to contribute to society.

Last Friday, 30 apprentices received their QQI Level 6 Advanced Certificate Craft, bringing the number to 95 apprentices who graduated fully in 2019 from Galway and Roscommon.

Galway and Roscommon Education and Training Board and Lifeways Ireland have announced that one of Galway City’s most successful national schools, which teaches using the Steiner pedagogy, is to transfer from its current patron Lifeways Ireland to the patronage of Galway and Roscommon Education and Training Board from the start of the 2019/2020 school year.

An important collection of letters from the mid-1920s concerning the Irish-language writer Pádraic Ó Conaire has been kindly donated to Galway City Museum by the Galway Technical Institute on the ninetieth anniversary of the author’s death. The letters relate to Ó Conaire’s time as an Irish language teacher at Galway Technical Institute (GTI), then situated on Dominick Street.