Looking to kickstart your career? Women4IT can get you ready for a digital job

by Amy Townsend

Posted on 31st August 2020 at 12:48 pm

ICDL Ireland is a partner in an innovative and ambitious project to develop the digital competences of young women who are at risk of exclusion from the labour market, by improving their employability.  “Women4IT” is a multi-stakeholder partnership funded by the EEA Grants and the Norway Grants Fund for Youth Employment. We aim to select […]

Assessing IT skills with free practice tests

by Michael Tighe

Posted on 7th May 2020 at 5:07 pm

All ICDL courses offer free online practice tests called Diagnostic Tests to help you diagnose what digital skills you need to work on the most. What is an ICDL diagnostic test? Diagnostic tests are a kind of practice or mock assessment of your skills for a specific ICDL course. They contain similar questions to the […]

ECDL/ICDL is now free from SOLAS as response to ongoing Covid-19 crisis

by Michael Tighe

Posted on 22nd April 2020 at 2:52 pm

ECDL/ICDL is now free on fetchcourses.ie to support those affected by the ongoing Covid-19 crisis. SOLAS, the Further Education and Training Authority, has made ECDL/ICDL resources available for free on the SOLAS online learning service as a support to learners who have been impacted by the current containment measures. Students can now access 10 ECDL […]

Digital skills in an uncertain world

by Amy Townsend

Posted on 26th March 2020 at 4:56 pm

Life has changed suddenly and the skills we need to cope with this new reality have changed too. By Mary Cleary, the deputy chief executive of the Irish Computer Society, which runs Tech Week. We often talk about life skills and in “normal” times, there is little disagreement on what those are. Apart from specific job-related skills, […]