College urges Kilkenny employers to help upskill staff

Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) has urged employers in Kilkenny to support their staff in availing of the online Springboard Postgraduate Diploma in Digital Marketing Practice.

The part-time online programme, which is delivered online on Thursdays from 2pm to 8pmm starts on January 20.

Course leader, Dr Paul Morrissey, said he is delighted with the response to the course from businesses across the south east.

“We’re now into our fourth cycle of the PGDip in Digital Marketing Practice. With so much marketing activity now moved online we’ve had massive interest in the course from businesses across the South East,” Mr Morrissey said. “We’re talking to them constantly and the feedback has been very positive.”

Springboard+ is co-funded by the Government of Ireland and the European Social Fund as part of the ESF programme or Employability, Inclusion and Learning 2014-2020. Springboard courses that are scheduled to start at WIT in January are: a Cert in Automation Engineering, the online Postgraduate Diploma in Digital Marketing Practice, the online Higher Diploma in Science in Computer Science, online Higher Diploma in Business Systems Analysis.

For more information, visit: http://www.wit.ie/springboard