Solas Switches On
We caught this piece in the Irish Times on Tuesday and it got us thinking here at Nightcourses.com Towers. Solas, or ‘the new FAS’ will have an enormous task ahead of it – setting up 16 new education and training […]
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Childcare’s Boom
Predicting public trends can be like trying to read the future by gazing at the stars. There is something almost illogical behind much of our behaviour, as if idiosyncrasy and unpredictability were natural parts of an overall survival strategy. One […]
Getting your garden in shape for the summer
Christmas and New Years may be well and truly behind us (unless you’re Chinese of course) but at least the long, dark winter nights are beginning to shorten. Once again, there is such a thing as early morning light, and […]
Looking for a language class? Order Chinese
News this week of an impressive Chinese New Years Festival in Dublin to be held in various venues from the 8th to the 22nd of February. Always a big draw, the festival showpiece is the New Year Festival Carnival. This […]
Wild and wonderful evening classes
News today that David Attenbrough has called humankind a ‘plague on the earth’. Here at Nightcourses.com we have enjoyed the man’s many years of top-notch TV programming – but we fear he is getting a little crabby in his old […]
Which Course Expo – where adult education comes together
Are you considering a part time course in 2013 The next Which Course Expo takes place on January 16th and 17th in the Mansion House’s Round Room, and will feature course providers from across the Dublin region. Best of all […]
Digital marketing: just being online is not enough
Are you responsible for your company’s website Thinking of setting up your own commercial website as an additional income stream Or maybe you are considering a career in this cutting edge industry Anyone with such a responsibility or ambition needs […]
Unravelling the mysteries of finance…
December is always a two-edged blade: we spend most of it celebrating the bedlam of Christmas, and a lot more time than we’d like complaining about the burdens of the latest budget (though according to Brendan Howlin, the Minister for […]
Part-time study, full-time rewards
College graduations have abounded over the past month or so and many of us will have seen friends or relatives proudly don the gown and collect their certs. Despite the ensuing sequence of awkward photographs, in front of a succession […]
Creative Writing Classes: Making friends with your imagination*
After numerous talks, workshops, readings and walking tours, the Dublin Book Festival finally comes to a close this Sunday. For those of you whose creative sparks may have been set ablaze by proceedings, fear not – perhaps it is just […]
Don’t shoot – your story needs more work!
James Bond seems to be everywhere these days. He has stormed the cinemas, brushing aside competitors like the bully who’s hit puberty long before everyone else on the schoolyard. Whole chat shows have been dedicated to him. Over the last […]
Getting Connected: Developing Your Internet Skills
When a character in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises is asked how he became bankrupt, he replies ‘Gradually, then suddenly’. The same can be said of how we experience change. We barely notice it happen until it’s blindingly obvious. […]
Exercising your options
The steady stream of people walking, jogging, or cycling past our office on Dublin’s North Wall Quay reminds us that exercise has become an integral part of many people’s lives. The fact that over fourteen thousand people are expected to […]
Speaking up for effective communication
With the stateside elections now just around the corner, media coverage of the presidential race – on both sides of the Atlantic – has begun to reach fever pitch. As many of you will know, the third in the candidates’ […]
Words from the Irish rugby captain…
It’s easy to assume that professional sportspeople and ordinary members of the public lead lives as different from one another as chalk and cheese. While this may be true in a general sense, there are marked similarities too. As a […]
Studying the Arts – A worthwhile pursuit?
In times of economic instability, many people feel it their duty to forego the pleasurable in favour of the necessary. This affects course choices as much as anything else: pursuing what is deemed useful is preferred to pursuing what may […]
From German to Yoga courses – a man has seen his ‘better’ side!
It seems, in this macho world, that few things can help a man to see his more intuitive side – but it now seems that doing a part-time course is one of them. I blogged recently about my neighbour who, […]
Distance learning – a challenge on the home front
This writer hopes to undertake the second and final year of a distance learning postgraduate course next September. First year was passed with flying colours back in 2011, but second year had to be postponed because I could not afford […]
One for the Teachers…
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. (Henry Adams) Most of us will be willing to testify to the inherent value of education, and rightly so. But the virtues – as considerable as they are […]
Have you learned a language today?
Did you know that today (September 26th) is the European Day of Languages No For shame. It involves events all over the continent -from children’s TV shows to conferences – promoting greater awareness of the benefits of multilingualism. Not well […]
