Senior Entrepreneur: Start Your Own Business National Workshop May 8/9

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‘Senior Entrepreneurs’ is a specially designed training programme, jointly organised by the County and City Enterprise Boards and Senior Enterprise, which is an INTERREG supported EU initiative led by the Mid-East Regional Authority. The Institute for Minority Entrepreneurship at the Dublin Institute of Technology is also supporting the training initiative.

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The aim of this interactive 2 day residential workshop is to give entrepreneurs aged 50+ the opportunity to develop a business plan to guide the establishment of their new business. ...

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How Franchising Can Help You Start A Business

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I recently heard a statistic that the failure rate for a franchise in the first 3 years of operation is just 7%, as opposed to 35% for businesses more generally. I have not been able to confirm this figure but what is factual is that the rate of business failures is much lower for businesses that are based on a franchise than for any other type of business. Well known examples of franchise operations in Ireland include Snap Printing, McDonald’s, ...

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Why Ireland Needs an Entrepreneurship Education Policy

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A new report has been published by the EU called ‘Entrepreneurship Education at School in Europe National Strategies, Curricula and Learning Outcomes’. The report finds that in Ireland “There is no specific national strategy for entrepreneurship education in general education”. This hardly comes as news to anyone involved in education in this country, and particularly to the many people who have attempted to persuade governments of all hues about the benefits of having an integrated entrepreneurship education strategy.

For much ...

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New members of Irish Research Council named

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Irish Research Council
29th March 2012
Speaking at the inaugural meeting of the newly established Irish Research Council, Tom Boland, Chief Executive of the HEA said “both IRCHSS and IRCSET have played a central role in the development of Ireland’s higher education and research system over the last decade. I look forward to this new Research Council building on past work and providing a new strengthened body which will be a strong advocate and supporter of new and emerging research ...

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