Skills To Advance programmes empower employees with the skills to progress in their current job or to take advantage of new job opportunities. Programmes on offer range from QQI Level 4-6 as well as non-accredited, and are fully funded. They are offered through a combination of online and on-campus-based classes at many of our campuses throughout Limerick and Clare.
Skills to Advance works by helping to identify potential skills gaps in your business and adapt to market changes. We offer subsidised upskilling and reskilling options for your staff, creating a straightforward way to help increase your productivity and competitiveness in a fast-changing business sector. This initiative provides your workforce with flexible training opportunities to fit around business hours and work schedules, helps develop skills relevant to your business needs, and responds to the changing nature of jobs and skills.
Environmental Sustainability In The WorkplaceÂ
QQI Level 6 Major Award
This 10-week part-time online programme will provide a practical introduction to environmental sustainability, ensuring you are equipped with the knowledge, skills and motivation to make a positive difference within your organisation. This fully-funded programme will help to ensure that environmental sustainability is embedded into your company’s practices.
Progression / Employment Opportunities
On successful completion, you will receive a QQI Level 5 Minor Award in Environmental Sustainability in the Workplace.
2025 Programmes
This 10-week part-time online programme will provide a practical introduction to environmental sustainability, ensuring you are equipped with the knowledge, skills and motivation to make a positive difference within your organisation. This fully-funded programme will help to ensure that environmental sustainability is embedded into your company’s practices.
Progression / Employment Opportunities
On successful completion, you will receive a QQI Level 5 Minor Award in Environmental Sustainability in the Workplace.
This 10-week part-time online programme will provide a practical introduction to environmental sustainability, ensuring you are equipped with the knowledge, skills and motivation to make a positive difference within your organisation. This fully-funded programme will help to ensure that environmental sustainability is embedded into your company’s practices.
Progression / Employment Opportunities
This is an ongoing blended QQI Level 5 programme, 50 hours over 10 weeks
This 10-week part-time online programme will provide a practical introduction to environmental sustainability, ensuring you are equipped with the knowledge, skills and motivation to make a positive difference within your organisation. This fully-funded programme will help to ensure that environmental sustainability is embedded into your company’s practices.
Progression / Employment Opportunities
This is an ongoing blended QQI Level 5 programme, 50 hours over 10 weeks
This 10-week part-time online programme will provide a practical introduction to environmental sustainability, ensuring you are equipped with the knowledge, skills and motivation to make a positive difference within your organisation. This fully-funded programme will help to ensure that environmental sustainability is embedded into your company’s practices.
This is an ongoing online QQI Level 6 programme, 50 hours over 10 weeks
This 10-week part-time online programme will provide a practical introduction to environmental sustainability, ensuring you are equipped with the knowledge, skills and motivation to make a positive difference within your organisation. This fully-funded programme will help to ensure that environmental sustainability is embedded into your company’s practices.
This is an ongoing online QQI Level 6 programme, 50 hours over 10 weeks
This QQI Level 6 online programme will equip you with knowledge, skills and competence in the theory, principles and practice of project management. It will empower you to take responsibility for the planning, implementation and review of a project, and enable you to work independently and /or supervise the work of others.
Progression / Employment Opportunities
On successful completion, you will receive a QQI Level 6 Minor Award, enabling you to plan, implement and review projects, applicable to a wide range of industries.
This QQI Level 6 Minor Award will equip you with the skills required to manage conflict effectively in your workplace. This programme is both online and in the classroom and is for you if you are looking to improve your skillset in the area of conflict dynamics, mediation methods and negotiation techniques.
Progression / Employment Opportunities
On successful completion, you will receive a QQI Level 6 Minor Award, empowering you to manage conflict situations.
This QQI Level 6 online programme equips team leaders and supervisors and those considering a career in managing people with the skills to lead and supervise teams successfully. You will learn how to analyse situations and make decisions, effective methods to successfully supervise a team, and understand the role of strategic planning and change management.
Progression / Employment Opportunities
On successful completion, you will receive a QQI Level 6 Minor Award and you’ll have an elevated skill set to manage a team in your workplace.
This 10–hour course provides you with the knowledge and skills to take the first steps in safeguarding your organisation against cyber-security threats. You will learn how to influence change through having an awareness of the most common cyber threats and existing regulations.
You will be able to measure behavioural change relating to cyber security in your organisation by identifying risks and tracking progress with data and metrics. You will also learn how to run phishing simulations that return data on why people click on, engage with, and report phishing attempts, as well as, why they do not.
Progression / Employment Opportunities
On successful completion, you will receive a CybSafe Certificate and you can progress into a Cyber-Security role
This 10-week programme will heighten your awareness of the essential role played by communication in the workplace. You will learn relevant principles and practices involved in gathering and relaying information, analyse the nature and theory of communication, explore varieties of non-verbal communication, develop the skills and confidence required to encode and decode meaning, in writing, verbally and visually, and enhance and refine interactive skills and qualities.
Progression / Employment Opportunities
On successful completion of this QQI Level 6 Minor Award, you will have gained a set of skills to empower your communication abilities in the workplace.
This ICDL accredited course aims to equip learners with the digital skills needed in todays working environment
Progression / Employment Opportunities
On successful completion of this course learners will be able to understand the key concepts of presentation, computer and online essentials, spreadsheets, documents and cyber security
This 14-week Spreadsheet Methods programme will equip you with the skills and knowledge to create and modify spreadsheets to enable you to organise and analyse data to produce meaningful business insights. This QQI Level 5 programme is delivered online in the evening time and is a great opportunity to learn a wide range of spreadsheet skills to apply in the workplace.
Progression / Employment Opportunities
On successful completion, you will receive a QQI Level 5 Minor award, empowering you to develop and implement your new skills in the workplace.
This 14-week blended programme will equip you with the relevant knowledge, skills and competencies to work effectively as a Tour Guide. On this programme you will learn how to plan and implement themed tour itineraries, demonstrate an understanding and knowledge of Irish and regional culture and develop a range of communication, information and customer care skills.
Progression / Employment Opportunities
On successful completion of this QQI Level 6 Minor Award programme, you’ll have the skills to work as a Tour Guide in the tourism industry.
This 5-week programme is for you if you would like to promote and maintain safety and health in a work environment. You will learn how to identify hazards and carry out risk assessments and become familiar with the responsibilities and duties of the employer and employee with regard to health and safety.
Progression / Employment Opportunities
On successful completion of this programme, you will receive a QQI Level 5 Minor Award.
This 14-week online programme will equip you with the skills necessary to ensure those with special needs are offered equal opportunity to access education. This programme will outline the importance of the difference between an inclusive and integrated educational environment. You will study the impact of special needs on behaviour and understand the different techniques to help with maladaptive behaviour.
Progression / Employment Opportunities
On successful completion, you will receive a QQI Level 5 Minor Award.
IT Programmes – Offered by eCollege
| IT Specialist in Python |
| IT Specialist in HTML and CSS |
| Microsoft Excel Expert |
| Microsoft Word Expert |
| IT Specialist in Databases |
| IT Specialist in Java Script |
| ICDL |
The aim of this certified course is to equip learners with the digital skills required to access, engage and build computer confidence. The ICDL Digital Citizen award is specially developed to cater for those with no experience whatsoever of computers and the Internet.
Progression / Employment Opportunities
On successful completion, you will receive a ICDL Digital Citizen (ICDL-DC) award.
This Level 5 Minor Award programme in Customer Service offers a solid foundation in customer service skills
Progression / Employment Opportunities
On successful completion, you will receive a QQI Level 5 Minor Award, empowering you to provide high-quality customer service.
This QQI Level 6 programme is fulltime; however, it is family friendly as holidays and class times are in keeping with post-primary school calendars.
Progression / Employment Opportunities
On successful completion of the course you may apply to register with the ATGI (Approved Tourist Guides of Ireland) as a National Area Guide.
The aim of this course is to equip the learner with the knowledge, skills and competence to operate and maintain accurate payroll records using both manual and computerised systems
Progression / Employment Opportunities
On successful completion of this course learners will be awarded a QQI Level 5 Minor Award in Payroll – Manual and Computerised. Learners will be able to explain the key terminology associated with personal taxation in preparing and maintaining payroll records both manually and on the computer.
This PHECC programme provides learners with the knowledge and skills to be a certified First Aid Responder.
First programme is offered over three full days and other three are offered two evenings per week
Progression / Employment Opportunities
On successful completion of this course learners will be awarded a First Aid Response (FAR) award. Learners will Recognise and Assess the causes and effects of sudden illness and/or injury in a pre-hospital environment and call for emergency medical services.
This ICDL accredited course aims to equip learners with the digital skills needed in todays working environment.
Progression / Employment Opportunities
On successful completion of this course learners will be able to understand the key concepts of using presentation, computer and online essentials, spreadsheets, documents and cyber security.
The aim of this course is to equip learners with the knowledge and skills to provide care for older people in a variety of settings
This is a QQI Level 5 programme, in-person every Monday
Progression / Employment Opportunities
On successful completion of this course learners will be awarded a QQI Level 5 Minor Award in Care of the Older Person. Learners will be able to demonstrate good work practices in the provision of care for older people understand the concept of the ageing process and explore ways to enhance the quality of life of the older person.
The aim of this course is to provide the learner with the knowledge, skill and competence to perform a range of manufacturing tasks in compliance with quality standards and good manufacturing practice.
Progression / Employment Opportunities
On successful completion of the programme learners will be awarded a 15 credit QQI level 5 minor award in Quality and Good Manufacturing Practice. Learners will be able to preform a range of manufacturing tasks in compliance with quality standards and good manufacturing practice.
This programme equips you with the knowledge, skills and certification required to provide advanced manufacturing support in various industry settings. You will develop a broad range of skills and techniques used in advanced manufacturing and learn how to work effectively and safely as part of a team. This programme is delivered at College of FET, Raheen Campus, Raheen Business Park, Cloughkeating Ave, Raheen, Limerick, V94 CV66.
Progression / Employment Opportunities
On successful completion, you will receive a QQI Level 6 Major Award, and you can progress within a range of advanced manufacturing settings or continue your learning journey with further and higher education options.
The aim of this certified course is to enable the learner to acquire the knowledge, skill and competence to safely utilise a range of techniques and processes to solve engineering related challenges and or to progress to further and or higher education or training.
Progression / Employment Opportunities
On successful completion of this course learners will be awarded a 15 credit QQI level 5 Minor Award in Maths.
Entry Requirements and Next Steps
NFQ Level 4 or equivalent when accessing a Level 5 programme. CERFL proficiency at B2 for access to Level 5 courses for those whose first language is not English Mature learner entry requirements available via the local ETB pathway Additional requirements may apply to non-EU/EEA Applicants and may be subject to full international fees (Please refer to Information for International Learners) *Each provider may have additional requirements, not outlined above.
This 1-year online evening programme, delivered by Code Institute, will prepare you for working as an associate software developer by providing practical software development skills to meet current industry needs. You will develop your skills to design, create, test, and project-manage a Full-Stack web-based software application.
Progression / Employment Opportunities
On successful completion, you will receive a Diploma in Software Development, credit-rated by the University of the West of Scotland and aligned to a QQI Level 6 Major Award on the National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ). This accredited programme will empower you to seek employment as an associate software developer.
Entry Requirements and Next Steps
To ensure this is the right programme for you, there are some entry requirements, completion of a 5-step coding challenge and an interview.