DIT Portfolios Due: Portfolios are now due from applicants for the following Dublin Institute of Technology undergraduate programmes - Photography (FT259); Design - Interior and Furniture Design (FT544); Design - Visual Communication (FT545); Fine Art (FT546); Design - Display (DT515)
Portfolios must be submitted on Thursday, March 11th and Friday, March 12th between 9.30 a.m. and 4.40 p.m. to DIT Portland Row, Dublin 1.
DIT Postgraduate Open Day
Dublin Institute of Technology holds its postgraduate open day tomorrow at DIT Aungier Street, Dublin 2, between 12 and 7 p.m.
There will be information on the selection of industry-focused postgraduate programmes on offer. The open day will be of interest to final-year students and recent graduates. For further information contact: The Office of Graduate Studies and Research, DIT. Tel: (01) 402 3000. E-mail: postgraduate@dit.ie
Guidance Counsellor Training in Cork
The UCC Higher Diploma in Guidance and Counselling is a one-year full-time training course with a person-centred emphasis. Applications for 2004-2005 are now being sought. Contact Maura O'Brien at (021) 490 4551. Email: maura.obrien@ucc.ie
Waterford Institute of Technology Public Lecture
Noel Dorr, former Irish ambassador to the United Nations and secretary-general of the Department of Foreign Affairs, will give a lecture, "The New World Order: The future of the United Nations?", at Waterford Institute of Technology's Cork Road campus on Thursday, March 11th at 8 p.m.
For further information, call Ann Power at (051) 845403.
Third-level Education Development Conference
Development Co-operation Ireland's conference on "Globalisation and Inclusion: Challenges for professional education in the third-level sector" is taking place in University College Cork (UCC) on Monday, May 31st (6.30 p.m.- 10 p.m.) and Tuesday, June 1st (9 a.m. -4 p.m.).
The conference seeks development-focused submissions from various faculties and fields across the third-level sector (i.e. arts, sciences, medicine, social sciences, education, business, etc.). Conference details, the "Call for Papers" and "Proposal Submission Form" (due Friday, March 12th) are available on the conference website: http://www.ucc.ie/ucc/depts/education/news/globalisation.html
Conference organiser: Dr Paul Conway. E-mail: pconway@education.ucc.ie Tel: (021) 490 3841. Conference secretary: Lucette Murray. Email: lucette@iol.ie
History Teachers' Association of Ireland Seminar
The Dublin branch is holding its annual sixth-form seminar in the Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College Dublin, on Saturday, March 13th from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. There will be three lectures - Cumann na nGaedheal, Stalin and the USSR and advice and guidelines on answering the Leaving Certificate history paper. Admission 10 - payable at the door.
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