Education and Training Boards
Dail Éireann — 2025-10-16
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Edward Timmins (FG), Wicklow

The education and training boards, ETBs, offer many different post-leaving certificate, PLC, courses that often lead into third level education. In many cases these courses are suitable for leaving certificate students. What is the role of the ETBs in higher education and where they sit in the education hierarchy?

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