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Galway Mayo Institute of Technology is offering 120 free part-time places on six courses as part of this year’s Springboard initiative for jobseekers announced at the weekend.

The lives of tenants, estate employees, and landlords will be examined at a two day history conference taking place in NUI Galway next week.

Dr Michael Tobin of the Department of Adult and Continuing Education at the Athlone Institute of Technology contacted the newspaper this week to say that the demand for the free Springboard programme offered at the Athlone Institute of Technology, has been astounding. It has been so high that he is going to approach the Higher Education Authority (Springboard) to see if they will fund additional places.

GMIT is one of five institutes of technology in the Border, Midlands and West (BMW) region currently at an advanced stage in discussions regarding the establishment of a technological university.

An Taoiseach Enda Kenny officially opened the new Engineering and Informatics Building at Athlone Institute of Technology this week.

The Athlone Institute of Technology can expect a third official title in its 40-year history - expected to be Technological University Athlone - if talks this week to amalgamate the five institutes in the Border, Midlands and West (BMW) region come to fruition.

When I interviewed Dr. David Finn of the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics at NUI, Galway, I alluded at first to a statement I found in one of his recently published papers: “The study of stress-induced analgesia has enhanced our understanding of the fundamental physiology of pain and stress and can be a useful approach for uncovering new therapeutic targets for the treatment of pain and stress-related disorders.”

Minister Phil Hogan has welcomed the latest progress in the Government’s decision to fast track its commitment to a multi-campus Technical University in the south-east.

The Minister for Education Ruairi Quinn has not warned or signalled that third level fees are on the way back and the Government has no plans to re-introduce such fees.

The Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn T.D., yesterday announced that a new further education and training authority called SOLAS (Seirbhísí Oideachais Leanúnaigh agus Scileanna) is to be established.