College Awareness Week

This week KCS held lots of guest talks, school trips and classroom quizzes trying to raise awareness of third level education. Senior cycle students got presentations from the different colleges in Cork as well as Apprenticeships and University of Limerick. Junior cycle students, especially first years, has classroom quizzes about third level.

There was also a tour to the Biopharmachem training facility in Cork Training Centre, Carrigaline where students were given a talk about jobs in science and engineering, heard from Pfizer engineers and given a detailed tour of their state of the art labs, fully gowned up. This was also linked in with Science Week.

CIT also have their open day on Friday 15th with lots of sixth year students attending, to learn more directly on campus and from staff and students. More talks will happen throughout the year, including next Tuesday with UCC coming to talk to fifth and sixth years about the range of courses they have to offer.