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Skillnet Ireland welcomes significant budget increase of 29% to support workforce skills development

Tuesday, 9 October 2018: Skillnet Ireland (www.skillnetireland.ie), the national agency responsible for the promotion and facilitation of workforce learning, welcomed the increase of €6.3m announced in B [...]

Storytelling for Radio - Evolution beyond the airwaves

Learning Waves together with Cilian Fennell from Stillwater Communications and Sabina Bonnici from Fizzy Thinking have developed a creative workshop around the area of Storytelling. The workshop will look [...]

Certificate in Media Communications for Job Seekers currently being developed

Learning Waves Skillnet is currently working with IT Carlow( Wexford Campus) to develop a programme in Media Communications which will be aimed at Job Seekers. It is hoped that the course w [...]

Independent Sector collects 73 awards at PPI Ceremony

The Independent Radio Sector collected 73 awards at the PPI Awards on Friday 12th October 2012. This is made up of 22 Gold Awards, 25 Silver Awards and 26 Bronze Awards. Awards were collected i [...]

Congratulations to Fiona Stack on receiving Outstanding Achievement Award 2012

Learning Waves Skillnet would like to congratulate Fiona Stack, Learning Waves Skillnet Board member since 2004 and General Manager, Radio Kerry on receiving the Outstanding Achievement Award 2012 at the PPI&nb [...]

HETAC Level 6 Course with IT Tralee commences

Learning Waves Skillnet is delighted to announce that its HETAC Level 6 course developed in conjunction with IT Tralee is now underway. The course commenced on 21st September 2012 and will run for 12 [...]

Students complete Cerificate in Media Communications Course

10 students have completed the Certificate in Media Communications course organised and funded by Learning Waves Skillnet in partnership with South East Radio and IT Carlow Wexford Campus. The ten st [...]

Students give their views on Media Course

In 2012, Learning Waves Skillnet secured 100% funding from Skillnets to train unemployed people who were interested in a carerer in radio. A Certificate in Media Communications was developed with IT Carlo [...]

BBC Academy to deliver News Editor training for Learning Waves

Learning Waves Skillnet has partnered with the BBC Academy to design and deliver a 2 day Effective News Editor training programme. This is an exciting opportunity for both Learning Waves and the BBC [...]

Congratulations to IBI on bringing RadioDays to Ireland in 2013

Learning Waves would like to congratulate the members of IBI and RTE on securing the RadioDays conference in Dublin in 2013. This will provide us all with the opportunity to showcase the brilliant me [...]

What you are saying about our training!

'All my expectations were met and i enjoyed the course with Mark. I have worked in radio news for many years but we never stop learning and there is always room for improvement. Mark Story knows and [...]

Thoughts from Dennis Clark at Learning Waves Workshop May 2013

Learning Waves Skillnet was delighted to welcome Dennis Clark, VP of Talent Development with Clear Channel in LA to Ireland last week. Clark started his radio career at KIIS FM Los Angeles in 1986 [...]

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