FAS - The Irish National Training and Employment Authority
The mission of FAS is 'to increase the employability, skills and mobility of job seekers and employees to meet labour market needs, thereby promoting competitiveness and social inclusion.' FAS provides training services to businesses and employment and training services to jobseekers. With headquarters in Dublin, FAS is structured around a network of 18 training centres, located across the country. These centres deliver training according to national quality standards and built around agreed occupational profiles, at a local level to meet local training and employment needs. The centres, within certain constraints, have a great deal of autonomy and flexibility to ensure that they tailor provision to local demand. In recent years, FAS has developed policies to support lifelong learning for both employed and unemployed FAS clients. Core policy values include access for all, a focus on employability, equity, choice, and the integration of a lifelong learning strategy into all FAS activities.
Within this context, it is anticipated that learning technologies will play a key contributory role - particularly in supporting innovation and adaptability to learners' changing needs, and in providing new options for the delivery of training, reducing barriers to access and contributing to the development of well trained and motivated staff. FAS has, in recent years, developed an e-learning environment (Net College) and developed courseware for some of its training programmes. For well over a decade, it has been involved in research and piloting innovative training activities in European funded programmes, and has gained valuable experience of and exposure to new and advanced applications of learning technologies.
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