Education

For families with children, County Waterford offers a wide range of primary, secondary and third level education.

Primary Level
Details of the county's 41 primary/national schools can be found on www.educationireland.ie. This impressive coverage includes a number of Gaelscoilanna, or Irish speaking schools which offer a comprehensive education in the Irish language.

Post Primary / Secondary Schools
The county has 9 post-primary/secondary schools. Four are located in Dungarvan and two in Tramore with the others in centres throughout the County including Kilmacthomas and Lismore. Meánscoil San Nioclás, in the Ring Gaeltacht near Dungarvan, offers a full post-primary education, in the Irish language. Contact details for the county's post-primary schools are listed below:

• Árd Scoil Na nDeise, Dungarvan T: +353 58 41464
• St. Augustine’s College, Abbeyside, Dungarvan T: +353 58 41140
• Scoil na mBraithre (C.B.S.), Mitchel Street, Dungarvan T: +353 58 41185
• Coláiste Chathail Naofa, Youghal Road, Dungarvan T: +353 58 41184
• C.B.S., Tramore, Co. Waterford T: +353 51 386766
• Stella Maris Secondary School, Tramore T:  +353 51 381 298
• Meánscoil San Nioclás, Rinn O gCuanach T: +353 58 46464
• Blackwater Community School, Lismore T: +353 58 53620/54412
• St. Declan’s Community College, Kilmacthomas T: +353 51 294100

Further Training
Anyone wishing to undertake further education will have the option of considering a variety of PLC (Post Leaving Certificate) courses and a wide range of CERT (Centre of Excellence for applied Research and Training) programmes offered by County Waterford Vocation Educational Committee (VEC). Contact County Waterford VEC on: www.wd-vec.ie. Further afield, a range of courses are available from institutions such as, Cork College of Commerce, Skerries College among others.

The Centre for Entrepreneurship at Waterford Institute of Technology provides a framework and environment for entrepreneurs, researchers, academics and policy makers/implementers to engage in a mutually complementary manner to support economic growth and development in the South East region.

Third Level
Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) is a university-level institution with over 10,000 full-time and part-time students and 900 staff. The Institute offers research programmes in many areas up to doctorate level and has a worldwide reputation. Contact WIT on: www.wit.ie WIT is currently delivering an outreach two-year, part-time Executive MBA Programme, in Dungarvan.

Cork City is home to University College Cork, the Cork Institute of Technology, which includes the Crawford College of Art & Design and the Cork School of Music. Contact U.C.C. on: www.ucc.ie or Cork Institute of Technology at www.cit.ie.