The Department of Education and Science have listed details of 1,500 free part-time undergraduate college places for unemployed workers in September. These new places, which will be on undergraduate certificate and degree-level programmes, span the sciences, business, engineering and technology sectors in Athlone Institute of Technology, Institute of Technology Blanchardstown, Institute of Technology Carlow, Cork Institute of Technology, Dublin Institute of Technology, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Galway Mayo Institute of Technology, Letterkenny Institute of Technology, Institute of Technology Sligo, Institute of Technology Tallaght Dublin, Waterford Institute of Technology, Dublin City University, University College Dublin, NUI Galway, Shannon Consortium (UL, MIC, LIT, IT Tralee) and the National College of Ireland. The full list of courses available in the scheme is here: 

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Unemployed workers who want to apply for a place on one of these courses should contact the college directly. The full press release is available on the Departments website here.