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Over this past summer, a group of students from Dublin represented Ireland at the First Lego League competition in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. They returned home with the Breakthrough Award in recognition of their achievements. The team of students was made up of Claire, Karina, Cara and Monica, who met each other through the Girl …
Five refugees fleeing the conflict in Ukraine have all passed an ICDL course in the midlands of Ireland. Tipperary ETB received a referral to help a group of Ukrainians improve their English language skills to help them integrate into the local community. This group of learners expressed an interest in IT and built on their …
Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne received a special mention in the ICDL Schools competition earlier this year. The school offers students a grounding in ICDL modules to develop digital skills that will help them in other classes at school. Students typically study six modules as part of the ICDL Academic Profile Pack from the ICDL Workforce programme, …
All ICDL Profile Packs and Module packs include online practice tests called diagnostic tests to help diagnose what digital skills areas your class need to work on. What is an ICDL diagnostic test? An ICDL diagnostic test is a kind of practice or mock assessment of skills for a specific ICDL module. It covers the …
The annual Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI), published by the European Commission, has been released. Ireland ranks fifth in this year’s index, with an average yearly growth of the DESI score of 8.5%. Ireland ranks most strongly in the human capital dimension as well as digital public services. DESI ranks the countries of the …
An Taoiseach, Micheál Martin, witnessed the signing of new agreements between ICDL Asia and two leading Institutes of Higher Learning (IHLs) during his official visit to Singapore from 19 to 22 July 2022. The purpose of the Taoiseach’s visit was to reinforce important bilateral relationships between Singapore and Ireland, and support Irish based organisations like …
Recent research from Salesforce has shown that only 32% of Irish workers are confident that they have the skills they need for the digital workplace, but that the vast majority are planning to upskill in this area. The top workplace digital skills for employees in Ireland are skills to use collaborative technology, digital administrative skills, …
Congratulations to St Mary’s Secondary School in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, who are the winners of this year’s ICDL Ireland schools competition. Special mentions also go to Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne in Dingle, Co. Kerry and Loreto Letterkenny Secondary School in Letterkenny, Co. Donegal for their entries. Entries for the competition were received from across Ireland from …
ICDL Ireland would like to highlight and celebrate the achievements of ICDL test centres across Ireland with a new competition. If you run ICDL in your centre you can be in with a chance of winning a GoPro HERO10 5K action camera by entering below. During these past two years, test centres, trainers, tutors and …
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