Agri-Business
Teagasc publishes Green Cert farm placement guidebook
Teagasc has published a guidebook for participants and host farmers involved in the Green Cert farm placement programme. The 34-page...
Agricultural college
Machinery Focus
Focus: Kildalton College highlights machinery course projects
Doing a machinery course offers an almost guaranteed path to employment, as the complaint most often heard in the machinery...
Rural Life
ATU Mountbellew open day for agricultural courses
Atlantic Technological University (ATU) Mountbellew will hold an open day for prospective agricultural students on Wednesday, March 1, 2023. The...
Rural Life
Macra to deliver pilot mental health training to 150 agri-students
Macra is to deliver a pilot mental health training programme to 150 students in agricultural colleges across Ireland before the...
Rural Life
Kildalton College celebrates 50 years with open day
Teagasc’s Kildalton agricultural, horticultural and equine college marked 50 years of education with an open day celebration at its campus...
Rural Life
Agricultural courses: What are the options to consider?
As agricultural education has evolved to continue through the Covid-19 lockdowns that have been in place over the past year,...
Rural Life
Continuation of Stamp Duty reliefs 'an important move' - Macra
A number of measures relevant to the agriculture sector were revealed in Budget 2021, announced today (Tuesday, October 13) by...
Rural Life
Harris called on to extend Covid-19 education fund to agri students
Extending the Covid-19 education fund to students of agricultural colleges is a key request for Minister for Further and Higher...
Agri Politics
Concern over knock-on impacts of Leaving Cert delay on agri colleges
Concern has been raised over the knock-on effect that the delay of the Leaving Certificate will have on agricultural colleges...
Rural Life
Agri colleges amid Covid-19: What should students know?
Agricultural colleges run by Teagasc are continuing to run with the aid of technology – which will continue over the...
Rural Life
2,703 offers issued under Round Two of CAO process
The Central Applications Office (CAO) has today, Wednesday, August 28, issued 2,703 offers to applicants in Round Two of the...
Rural Life
Deadline approaching for agri college applications
The deadline for submitting applications for agricultural college Level 5 and Level 6 full-time courses is midnight this Sunday, June...
Rural Life
Dundalk agriculture students resit 'compromised' exam
Students in their final year of Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT) have been informed that they must resit an end-of-year...
Rural Life
Deadline for Green Cert applications draws close
Those hoping to to attend agricultural college this year have just two weeks left to submit applications as the deadline...
Rural Life
Historic agri village of 'Multy' ready to set Croke Park alight
Across the country Multyfarnham – a charming old-world village based along the banks of Lough Derravaragh in Co. Westmeath – is...
Rural Life
Young man pleads guilty to setting fire to agricultural college's hay barn
A 21-year-old man in Co. Limerick has pleaded guilty to setting fire to a hay barn belonging to an agricultural...
Rural Life
Get your Teagasc college course application in soon...
Friday, May 26, is the deadline for agriculture college full-time course applications, according to Tony Pettit, Head of Education in Teagasc....