Dundrum College of Further Education: Step Into Your Future

With a strong focus on supporting and celebrating each student as an individual, Dundrum College of Further Education has helped people from all walks of life, including school leavers, upskilling adults and more, to discover, plan and achieve their goals.

Having built up a reputation for their exceptional standards of training and development, the college, located in the heart of Dundrum, continues to adapt to the changing needs and concerns of their diverse students.

“We really have a mix of demographics,” CFE Dundrum’s principal Michael Foley tells us. “As well as catering for people coming straight from the Leaving Cert, we’re also looking at people who are reskilling, and people who are changing careers. That includes people who are unemployed now – maybe due to COVID-19. We try to cater for all those people with a mix of skill-based courses and vocational courses, as well as progression-to-university programmes.”

CFE Dundrum’s cutting edge approach to learning offers greater flexibility with HUB programmes – allowing students to adapt the curriculum to their personal preferences.

“We offer a mix of core and elective modules in business, computer science, gardening, nursing, psychology, childcare, art, humanities and more,” Michael says. “All our qualifications are QQI-accredited – the same authority looking over the standards at university level. We offer a period where you can come in for the first month or so and explore your interests. So, for example – even if you thought you were interested in business in the accounting area, you might actually find that you love medical terminology.

“Having those kinds of opportunities is important,” he adds. “As the year goes on, you can then progress into fixing your modules – so you can meet the qualification that you want. There are lots of different pathways for different people.”

For more information, visit cfedundrum.com