Ballsbridge College News
Visitors to the College
Minister visits College
Minister Lenihan, TD
Minister of State for Development Cooperation and Human Rights, Conor Lenihan, T.D. visited Ballsbridge College of Further Education on Tuesday, 6 April 2007 to discuss development issues with students in the International Aid & Development Studies Course and other interested students.
The Minister initially outlined the strategy in the recent Government White Paper on Irish Aid. He reminded students that every day at present 30,000 children die from preventable diseases while more than 130 million do not go to school. Every day over 100 million people go to bed hungry.
A very interesting discussion followed with the Minister giving detailed answers on a wide range of topics including Rwanda, the Kurds and Kosovo.
The Minister's visit was much appreciated by Ballsbridge College.
European Projects
Grundtvig Language and Information Technology Project
Ballsbridge College is participating in a Grundtvig Language and Information Technology Project with partner colleges from Finland, Spain, The Netherlands and Belgium. The first meeting of the group of participating teachers took place in Ballsbridge College in the autumn of 2005.
Using the online learning and communications system, Moodle, students participating in the project are able to upload work that they have written in the particular language they are learning. All participating students may read one another's work online and submit comments in the relevant language.
The Project is proving a very valuable resource to the students, and in particular to the international students in the EFL & Media Studies course in Ballsbridge College.
Another meeting took place in Spain at the end of January 2006, where the Ballsbridge College co-ordinator of the project, Peter Keogh, met with his European colleagues to discuss future developments for the project.
Leonardo - Web Design in Education
In 2001, Ballsbridge College of Further Education participated in a Leonardo transnational European Education Project: Web Design in Education. Students from Istituto Tecnico Commerciale Statale "A. Fossati" in La Spezia, Italy, received training from Ballsbridge College in Web Authoring, Computer Graphics, Animation and Digital Movie Production.
The first part of the training took place virtually from the eLearning Centre in Ballsbridge College and the students in Italy participated via the Web. Subsequently, ten students and their tutor, Bruno Rosaia, came to Dublin for hands-on training in the Multimedia centre in Ballsbridge College.
The students received training in web authoring and multimedia production software. At the end of the course, students had produced websites and multimedia movies for their college in La Spezia.
During their time in Dublin, the students also had the benefit of work experience in various Multimedia and Web Design companies in Ireland.
Comenius - Trade between small and medium-sized enterprises in Europe
Ballsbridge College of Further Education participated in a Comenius transnational European Education Project on the theme of Trade between small and medium-sized enterprises in Europe, including a comparison between the economic, social and cultural conditions in some European countries. The first meeting of the participating schools - from Sweden, Austria, Italy and Ireland - took place in Stockholm in September 1996 and was followed by other meetings in the participating countries over many subsequent years.
The focus of Comenius project was the joint co-operative work and communication that took place between the students in the participating schools. Students developed, gathered, collected and researched material and then exchanged and discussed this information with each other.
Contact Info:
Ballsbridge College of Further Education
Address: Shelbourne Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, Ireland
Phone: +353 1 6684806
Fax: +353 1 6682361
Web: www.ballsbridgecollege.com
Email: info@ballsbridge.cdvec.ie
