Education

County Wicklow VEC provides a Life Long Learning Service. All our Colleges and Centres welcome those who wish to avail of our education provision. We endeavour to provide as many opportunities as possible for all learners so that they can achieve their educational goals. Society must become a learning society in order to deal with the requirements of modern living.

Our school participates in the Green Schools Programme -an international environmental education programme and award scheme that promotes and acknowledges long-term, whole-school action for the environment.

The mission of the Department of Education and Skills is to provide high-quality education.

The Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) was established in 2000 by the then Minister for Education and Science in response to the need to develop Ireland's research capacity and skills base in a rapidly-changing global environment where knowledge is key to economic and social growth.

The International Committee for Historical Demography (ICHD) is an association of members of different nationalities, whose aim is to encourage the study of the history of population and of human society in general, and to further scientific exchange between researchers.

Ireland's national education and research network, providing high quality internet services to Irish universities, institutes of technology and the research and educational community, including all Irish primary and secondary schools.

Emerging as a challenge to academia in the late 1960s, gender studies is now a well-established interdisciplinary field of study, which examines issues of power and gender relations in society.

The Centre for Women's Studies was established in Trinity College in July, 1988

The European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) was founded to promote interest in and support the expansion of Irish Studies throughout Europe.

Weapons training is a core activity of every unit of the Defence Forces. Each and every soldier trains on a wide variety of weapons from assault rifles to heavy support weapons.

Their 'Electronic Guide to Irish Studies in the United States' lists university courses nationwide of academic distinction in the arts, science, and the study of antiquities.

Glucksman Ireland House provides access to Irish and Irish-American culture and fosters excellence in the study of Ireland, Irish America, and the global Irish Diaspora.

Leitrim is a county in the Irish province of Connaught and it is bounded on the north by Donegal Bay. Here is has a coastline of 2.5 miles. It is also bounded on the north by Counties Donegal and Fermanagh, on the east by Fermanagh and County Cavan and on the south by County Longford. Lough Allen divides County Leitrim into two parts.

Mayo a maritime county in the province of Connaught, is bounded on the north and west by the Atlantic Ocean, on the east by counties Sligo and Roscommon and on the south by county Galway. Its greatest length from the boundary near Ballyhaunis to near Erris Head is about 66 miles and its greatest breadth from Killary Harbour to Downpatrick Head is 54 miles.

Roscommon, an inland county, is bounded on the north by counties Sligo and Leitrim, on the east by counties Leitrim, Longford and Westmeath, on the south by Offaly (King’s county) and Galway and on the west by Galway and Mayo. Its greatest length is 60 miles and its greatest breadth from Rooskey to a point west of Lough Errit, is 33.5 miles.

Sligo, a maritime county in the province of Connaught. It is bounded on the north by the Atlantic Ocean, on the east by county Leitrim, on the south by counties Roscommon and Mayo and on the west by county Mayo. Its length from the River Moy to the Arigna River is 40 miles and its breadth from Lough Gara to Donegal Bay is 38 miles.

Carlow county is in the province of Leinster. It is bounded on the north by Kildare and Wicklow, on the east by Wicklow and Wexford, on the south by Wexford and west by Kilkenny & Laois (Queen's county).

One scheme put forward by the Liberal administration in 1866 proposed to grant a supplemental charter to the Queen’s University, empowering it to examine and confer degrees on students other than those of the Queen’s colleges. A bill on these lines was introduced and carried by a narrow majority.

Dublin, a maritime county, in the province of Leinster, is bounded on the north by Co. Meath, on the east by the Irish Sea, on the south by Co. Wicklow and on the west by counties Kildare and Meath. Its greatest length from Kippure Mountain on the south to the Delvin River near Balbriggan is 32 miles; and its greatest breadth from Howth Head to Clonee near Lucan is 18 miles

48 parishes; 9 in city and 39 in the country. Archbishop and Primate of Ireland: His Grace the most Rev. Daniel Murray, D.D., 9, Mountjoy Square, Dublin.

Kildare an inland county in the province of Leinster, is bounded on the north by county Meath, on the east by counties Dublin and Wicklow, on the south by county Carlow and on the west by Offaly (King’s county) and county Westmeath. Its greatest length from north to south is 42 miles and its greatest breadth from east to west is 26 miles.

Kilkenny an inland county in the province of Leinster is bounded on the north by the Queen\'s county (Laois), on the east by counties Carlow and Wexford, on the south by county Waterford, and on the west by county Tipperary. Its greatest length, north and south from the bend of the river Suir, west of Waterford city to the north of the county at the village of Clogh (Clough) is 45 miles; and its greatest breadth from near Graiguenamanagh on the east to the western boundary is 23 miles.

Longford is an inland county in the province of Leinster. It is bounded on the North by counties Leitrim and Cavan, on the east and south by Westmeath and on the west by County Roscommon.

Longford is an inland county in the province of Leinster. It is bounded on the North by counties Leitrim and Cavan, on the east and south by Westmeath and on the west byCounty Roscommon. It's length from a point in the south west of Lough Rea to a point in the north-east is 30.5 miles, and its greatest width from the River Inny to Drumshanbo Lake is 18 miles.

Meath, a maritime county in the province of Leinster, is bounded on the north by counties Cavan, Monaghanand Louth, and on the east by the Irish Sea and county Dublin, on the south by counties Dublin, Kildare and Offaly (King’s), and on the west by Westmeath. Its greatest length from Delvin River to Lough Sheelin is about 48 miles and its greatest breadth from Yellow River to Ballyhoe Lake is 40 miles. - See more at: http://www.from-ireland.net/county/article/Emigration-%26-Education-Statistics%2C-1931%2C-Co.-Meath/Meath#display

Offaly (King’s County), an inland county in the province of Leinster, is bounded on the north by county Westmeath, on the east by counties Meath and Kildare, on the south by Laois (Queen’s) and Tipperary, and no the west by counties Galway, Roscommon and Tipperary.

Westmeath, an inland county in the province of Leinster is bounded on the north-west by county Longford. On the north-east and east by county Meath, on the south by Offaly (King’s county) and on the west by county Roscommon.

Wexford a maritime county is in the province of Leinster. It is bounded on the North by county Wicklow on the east by St. George's channel on the south by the Atlantic ocean and on the west by counties Waterford, Kilkanny and Carlow.

Wicklow, a maritime county in the province of Leinster, is bounded on the north by county Dublin, on the east by St. George’s Channel, on the south by county Wexford and on the west by counties Carlow and Kildare.

Clare a maritime county in the province of Munster. It is bounded on the north by Galway Bay and Galway, and on the east and south by the Shannon, which separates it from Tipperary, Limerick and Kerry, and on the west by the Atlantic Ocean.

Cork, a maritime county is in the Province of Munster. It is the largest county in Ireland, bounded on the north by Limerick, on the east by Tipperary and Waterford, on the south by the Atlantic ocean and on the west by Kerry.

Kerry, a maritime county in the province of Munster is bounded on the north by the mouth of the river Shannon, on the south by the Kenmare River and Cork county, on the east by counties Limerick and Cork, and on the west by the Atlantic Ocean.

Limerick a county in the province of Munster, is bounded on the north by the Shannon, on the east by Tipperary, on the south by Cork and on the west by Kerry. Its greatest length from near Abbeyfeale to the boundary at Galtmore is 50 miles, and its greatest breadth from a point on the Shannon on the north to the Ballyhourna mountains on the south is 33 miles: average breadth about 23 miles.