Adult Education Guidance Services
With regard to the Aims, Objectives, Terms and Conditions, Target Groups and Guiding Principles for ETB Adult Education Guidance (Initiative) Service Delivery the DES Operational Guidelines of 2012 remain relevant.
DE Operational Guidelines 2012
ETB AEGS Staff Salary Scales are detailed in DE Circular Letter 0049/2019 ‘with effect from 1 September 2019’
This circular updates DE Circular Letter 70/04 and DE Circular Letter 0015/07 referenced in the Guidelines.
Additional publications:
Further Education and Training Strategy (2020-2024)
This SOLAS publication details the FET strategy for the period 2020-2024.
It is aimed at Transforming Learning over the next 5 years where real reform and performance improvement can deliver a more strategic and integrated FET system.
Further Education and Training Strategy 2020-2024
Guidance for Further and Higher Education for Returning to on-site activity in 2020: Roadmap and COVID-19 Adaption Framework
The Further and Higher Education Roadmap provides an overview of the phased return of further and higher education.
The phases in the roadmap are derived from the Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business.
While learning and assessment has continued through emergency remote learning for many, and research trainees began their onsite return on Phase 1, the academic year for most students and learners will commence in Phase 4.
All of further and higher education is planning, using public health advice as a guide, to maximise the provision of learning onsite and the resumption of normal schedules.
The phases in the Further and Higher Education Roadmap are set ou within the link below aligned to the Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business.
Further and Higher Education Roadmap
Further information from the Department of Education regarding the Roadmap and COVID-19 Adaption Framework is available HERE
ETB Brief 19/2020 re FET Implementation Guidelines
These ETBI FET Implementation Guidelines sets out a range of such context-specific measures with practical guidance for FET Institutions to safely deliver teaching and learning activities in autumn 2020.
These features present very specific challenges and require bespoke solutions in the context of re-opening. Further information from ETBI are available HERE.
Implementation Guidelines for Public Health Measures in ETB Further Education and Training Institutions (FET).
Further information and support regarding ETB delivery of ‘teaching and learning activities in autumn 2020’ in the provision of Guidance Counselling, Guidance Information and Guidance Services in FET is available from NCGE HERE
Adult Literacy
Adult Literacy Operational Guidelines (2012)
Back to Education Initiative
BTEI Operational Guidelines (2012)
Community Education
Community Education Operational Guidelines (2012)
ITABE
Key Area Guidelines - IVEA Intensive Tuition in Adult Basic Education Guidelines (2012)
White Paper on Adult Education – Learning for Life (2000)
The issues facing the following areas of adult education in Ireland in the era of lifelong learning were examined in a white paper:
(1) second chance and further education; (2) community education; (3) workplace education; and (4) higher education.