About Us

Welcome to Abbeyleix Further Education and Training Centre

Welcome to Abbeyleix Further Education and Training Centre

Foreword from Helen Kavanagh | Centre Director

It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the Abbeyleix Further Education and Training Centre. The Centre is dedicated to providing adults with further or ‘second chance’ education and training opportunities. Its ethos is consistent with the profile of its learner population, meaning that its focal point is on the active participation of the learner in the decision making process.

Further Education and Training

At Abbeyleix Further Education and Training Centre we offer a wide and flexible selection of programmes, which provides the learner with numerous developmental pathways into further/higher education and employment. Under our flexible further education programmes the learner has the option to study part-time through the Back To Education Initiative (BTEI), or full-time. Abbeyleix Further Education and Training Centre is registered with Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI). We offer programmes that lead to QQI awards on the National Framework of Qualifications and therefore offer a range of courses at QQI level 3, level 4, Level 5 and level 6.

 

Our services are co-funded by the Government of Ireland and the European Social Fund. Find out more at wwww.eufunds.ie 

Testimonials

Read what our past students have to say about their experience of courses at LOETB Abbeyleix.

“I chose to do the Pre-University Science/Laboratory Techniques course in LOETB Abbeyleix because I wasn’t sure what area of science I wanted to go into. After carrying out the 60 hours of work placement in January it really gave me an insight in to which area I want to go into. I hope to study Biological and Biomedical Sciences in Trinity College in September. With Helen Rogers’ excellent guidance I was given details into topics of biology and anatomy & physiology that I never did for my leaving cert and I feel I have a major advantage for next year.

The skills I obtained from this course are absolutely invaluable and will be used in all aspects in a science career. I also struggled with chemistry for my leaving cert too, so doing this course with the guidance I was given, I feel more than prepared to begin university. I recommend this course to everyone I meet, and it’s the best thing I have ever done!
Mia Fahey
Pre-University Science 2024