Education and Opportunities: Studying and Teaching

From the point of view of further education or finding work as an instructor, this might be of interest to some of you:

Night classes are offered in many, many venues all over the country. Some of these are accredited and some are for fun, or for lifelong learning.

As a student you might find something interesting to do for a couple of hours one evening a week. Classes can be for subjects like "learning to play guitar for fun" to "flower arranging" to " ocean navigation" to "computers for beginners." The computer starter-classes seem to be the most popular.

As an instructor, you might consider trying to get in to deliver one of these night classes. If you have the inclination towards being an instructor for a class you should get in touch with the VEC of the county you wish to work in, and then also talk to the principals in the schools. It seems that the arts and crafts classes and the computer classes are successful in getting the numbers.

Some of the classes (one of which I offered) are self-funding. What this means is that if ten students sign up and pay the fee, which is usually around 100 Euros, the class goes ahead. If ten do not sign up then the class is cancelled. I honestly do not know what the instructor is paid as I have not been successful in getting the ten students to sign up.

But if your qualifications and/or strengths are in computers or art/crafts or a language you just might have the qualifications and skills that are desirable in the adult education, night class sector.