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Insurance Workshop – Everything you’ve always wanted to know about insurance but were afraid to ask!
Date May 11th 2006
Time 7.30pm to 10pm
Venue Naas Adult Basic and Community Education Centre
Planning Your Future
NetworkKildare are offering this workshop to those involved inCommunityEducation and Community Development whowould like tospend some time reflecting on and planning where
they would like to go next in their career and development.
Date June 13th 2006
Time 10 to 4pm
Venue Kildare Youth Services, Basin St, Naas
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Short Courses
Women Today Allen, Prosperous, Athy
Thiscoursewillexplore the position of women in Ireland today. It willbetailoredaround the needs and interests of participants and mayincludethefollowing:
- Gender Equality
- Women and the Family
- Women and Caring Work
- Women and Paid Work
- Women in the Media
- Women and the Legal System
Women and Irish Society FETAC Level 5
This module is designed to promote learner’s knowledge and understanding of a range of women’s experiences in Irish society, past and present. Learners will be engaged in a challenging and dynamic learning process and encouraged to develop their analytic skills.
Learners who complete this module will
- Understand the history of the family from the Industrial Revolution to the present time
- Appreciate the diversity and changing realities of women’s lives in C19 and C20 Ireland
- Understand key principles of feminist thought
- Appreciate the political, economic, social and cultural context of women’s lives.
The course isbeing held at Naas Adult Basic andCommunity Education Centre ,Jigginstown, Naas on Tuesday evenings from7.30 to 10pm and on two Saturdays per term to be negotiatedwith participants. The courseis 60 hours long and will runbetween October 05 and May 06.
National Certificate in Humanities
Between 2001and2004 we provided a National Certificate in Humanities(Community Educationand Development) in conjunction with Waterford Instituteof Technology. The course was delivered locallyin Newbridge. There were 23 participants all of whomwere actively involved in their local communities in a paidor voluntary capacity. The outreach programme comprised 12academic modulesand included a range of practical and learningsupports, including caring costs, travel expenses, access to guidanceand counselling support, study groups and a mentoring service. Theaim of the programme was to provide local network members andcommunity activists with a unique opportunity to access and gain a 3rdlevel educational qualification whilst also developing and accreditingtheir skills, knowledge and experience as community workers.
If you would like a copy of the evaluation report please contact us
10th International Women’s Day Celebration
This year is Network Kildare’s 10th Birthday andto celebrate the voluntary contribution of women to their communitieswe are organising a bus trip to An Tairseach (Dominican Farm andEcology Centre, Wicklow)
Date 11th March 2002
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Newsletter – Spring 2006
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