Want to learn Chinese? In April 2017 the Department of Education announced that school students will soon be able to take Chinese as a Leaving Cert subject. This is a wise move. Chinese is likely to be in demand by Irish […]
Many people have found themselves working from home this year since Covid-19 took effect. Some may, at some stage, return to the office life they once shared with others. Others may not. It is becoming increasingly evident that many people […]
This year make a resolution you’ll want to keep – learn a new skill. Every January we make promises to ourselves that we’ll transform our lives – sometimes in radical ways. According to research published in the Journal of Clinical […]
Sports are a central part of our culture. Many of us play sports, even more of us watch them, but only a handful of us understand sports psychology. Sports psychology draws from biometrics, kinesiology, and of course psychology. It seeks […]
More photographs have been taken in the last five years, than in the previous one hundred years. A startling fact when you consider most are consigned to “digital landfill” as an anonymous multi digit file! With the arrival of affordable […]
Ireland has come a long way in the last three decades. We’ve shifted from being a nation where homosexuality was illegal up to mid ‘90s, to our population gleefully voting ‘Yes’ for same-sex marriage. We’ve stopped exporting jobseekers by the […]
When asked by a person at a party what do you do, how would a social care worker reply? What is a social care worker? What do they do? An imagined conversation may go like this. Are you a social […]
There has never been a better time for part-time and casual historians, writers, sociologists and philosophers. The amount of information now available through media such as the Internet, TV, and print, means that it is possible to locate information on […]
If you want to know how a course stacks up, the first thing to do is see where it falls on the National Framework of Qualifications. The National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ) is a system of ten levels. Each of […]
The Diploma Centre, as part of the Law Society of Ireland Law School, has provided continuing professional education and training for over 20 years. Their primary aim as a legal education service provider is to offer high quality, relevant course […]