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Pictured at the VTOS 2019 Graduation Ceremony are Patricia Kennedy VTOS Co-ordinator, Susan Shinners, Croom, Mayor of the City and County of Limerick Michael Sheahan, Ranim Kachach, Castletroy, and Jayne Foley, Art, Craft and Design Course Director at VTOS. Picture: Richard Lynch/ilovelimerick.

VTOS Graduation 2019 celebrates graduates with 34 different nationalities

The Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme (VTOS) Limerick held it’s 2019 Graduation ceremony at the Kilmallock Road Campus on Thursday, October 24.

The ceremony was a great success for both the graduates and the Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board, with over two dozen students completing their course and receiving their qualifications. 


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Jayne Foley, Art, Craft and Design Course Director at VTOS, said, “We are so, so proud of all our students graduating from all the different courses. They are graduating with full leaving certs, with awards in art, craft and design, office administration, English for speakers of other languages and we are very, very proud of all of them and wish them the best of luck with their future endeavours”.

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Pictured at the VTOS 2019 Graduation Ceremony are Vivienne Ryan Martin, Aisling Flynn, Murroe, Clare Gilmore, Thomond Gate and Roisin Quinn, Mayo. Picture: Richard Lynch/ilovelimerick.

The centre offers both the Junior and Leaving Certificates, with nine subjects to choose from for the Leaving Certificate, which is studied over the course of one year, instead of typically two. Other courses on offer, are Career Pathways, English for Work, Retail Sales, Healthcare Support, Office Administration, all ranging from QQI Major Award Levels 3-5.

The reception of the ceremony was hosted by the hospitality trainees and showed a video montage of the past year, including the graduates trip to Paris and recent events. The graduates were awarded their certificates by Councillor Michael Sheahan, the Mayor of the City and County of Limerick.

VTOS is designed to help long-term unemployed return to full-time education without losing their social welfare benefits. VTOS will help participants make the transition back into paid employment or back to further education and eventually leading to paid employment. Participants will make new friends; acquire valuable education qualifications in an adult-friendly environment.

 

The centre also provides many other benefits, which include, books and equipment are supplied for, the assistance with the cost of childcare/creche, examination fees paid for, free parking on campus, state of the art facilities and meal and travel allowance, including a direct bus to the city centre.

Maurice O’Connor, a graduate who received his qualification at the ceremony, said, “What can I say, the staff are incredible here. The classmates were absolutely brilliant. The teachers are fantastic and only for ye, I wouldn’t be where I am right now. Anybody out there who is out of education for a long time, come to VTOS”.

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Picture: Richard Lynch/ ilovelimerick

Richard is a presenter, producer, songwriter and actor. He was named the Limerick Person of the Year (2011) and won an online award at the Metro Éireann Media and Multicultural Awards (2011) for promoting multi-culturalism online. Richard says that the ilovelimerick.com concept is very much a community driven project that aims to document life in Limerick. So, that in 20 years time people can look back and remember the events that were making the headlines.