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It is a difficult time for our community, but life will return to normal, and now is a good time to look forward and make choices to help yourself get new skills, upskill, or re-skill and be ready for a changed landscape.

Did you know that we all learn in different ways? In further education and training the Galway & Roscommon Education and Training Board (GRETB) takes the different learning styles into account when teaching adult learners. There are three main learning styles - visual, where we learn by seeing; auditory, where we learn by listening; and kinaesthetic, where we learn by doing.

The Government must clarify its position on the financial package to be offered to student nurses who have been re-called for placement in hospitals throughout the State.

With the coronavirus lockdown preventing students from accessing the books and documents necessary for their studies, third level institutions across Ireland should immediately introduce a 'No Detriment' policy.

Students who have paid up front for accommodation they cannot now access because of COVID-19 need to be refunded - according to Mayo Sinn Féin TD Rose Conway-Walsh.

Not sure what to do with the kids? Well for starters, don’t worry.

It seems incredible to believe but it is only three short weeks since the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar stood on the steps of Blair House in Washington and announced that all schools would be closing later that day. For parents who have been supporting their sons' and daughters' continuation of education over those 21 days it seems like an eternity.

GRETB Further Education and Training Department wishes all its learners the very best during these challenging times. In order to ensure continuity of learning, the staff are engaged in supporting learners in whatever way works for each individual, whether that is using TEAMS, webinars, eCollege, email, phone calls, or GRETB's YouTube channel.

Public and private student accommodation providers must adopt a "uniform approach" to refunding for students who have left student accommodation early due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

DRUID THEATRE'S award-winning 2005 production of The Playboy Of The Western World by JM Synge is now available online for free as a resource for those studying the play for the Leaving Cert.