As part of our Education Special, we're looking at some of the wonderfully varied options available to school-leavers. First up is @BCFE_Official... "There’s been no shortage of Ballyfermot success stories over the years..."

Some of our 6th years took a visit to @BCFE_Official & learnt about all the courses and Career opportunities available to them, including Video, Media, Radio, Music Gaming, Nursing and Arts. Thanks to Ms Griffin & Ms Cawley for organising the trip & Ballyfermot for hosting us.

Culinary Catastrophe by Tiarnan O'Connor, @BCFE_Official. Can Chef An Phiast impress his esteemed guest? CREDITS Director & Visual Developer - Tiarnan O'Connor Production Manager - Render Reid Layout - Conor O'Reilly, Render Reid Storyboards - Persephone Huynh Murphy

Carpe Diem An Phiast! by Michaela Bartley @BCFE_Official A prized sheep dog falls ill, the farmer struggles to gather his sheep. CREDITS Director, Animator & Character Design - Michaela Bartley Animator - Roisin O'Reilly Background Artist, Video & Sound Editor - Jakob Kasprzyck

In partnership with Screen Ireland & Windmill Lane, in this Screen Session, Abby Greene & Richard Baneham discuss the world of VFX. Richard reflects on his career to date, which includes 2 Oscar wins for his work on Avatar & Avatar: The Way of Water.

Aww isn't this great? Thank you to the students at @BCFE_Official for making this video for us for @SocialMediaIre as a project. #socialmediafest Looking forward to meeting these young creators in #Wexford on the 20th of November! You can be there too: 🎟️

Aww isn't this great? Thank you to the students at @BCFE_Official for making this video for us for @SocialMediaIre as a project. #socialmediafest Looking forward to meeting these young creators in #Wexford on the 20th of November!

🙌🏽City of Dublin ETB attended the National Tertiary Office Convention at Croke Park yesterday. We were joined by students from year two of the Immersive Media degree programme - at city of Dublin FET College, Ballyfermot - partnership with KWETB and IADT Dun Laoghaire. 🌟

🪈 🎵Alan Doherty @ALDOCMUSIC, tutor @BCFE_Official, musician & ex @BCFE_Official student Seamus Ong @OngSeamus, and Irish Traditional Music course coordinator Paul McGrattan @BCFE_Official played a fab live performance at the Xplore Your Future TY Skills Expo 2024 in The Helix🙌🏽

We've a few creatives amongst our alum who help out at events & activities. Lead Mentor & @BCFE_Official student, Amber, is building her portfolio while providing support to secondary school girls in our programming. Check out some images from her series "getting to work" :)

Brilliant panel on @RadioBrendanRTE about the many post-secondary pathways for school leavers, including Sophie Hynes, who is studying the @BCFE_Official Radio & Podcasting course, highlighting FET as a prime destination for school leavers. Listen in:

🎥📹🎮🕹️📺Shane Whelan, Coordinator of the new tertiary degree in Immersive Media Production at City of Dublin FET College Southwest Campus, Ballyfermot in conjunction with IADT - speaking to potential learners at #WorldSkills.🙌🏽 #CityofDublinETB #ThisIsFET #CreateYourFuture

Thank you Orla @BCFE_Official for an impressive tour around the college for our 6th years !

@_FPAcademy in @myiadt to give a workshop on Virtual Film production . They kindly gave a demo to the Immersive Media Production degree students who were visiting for their induction day. This hons degree is delivered collaboratively by IADT @BrayInstituteFE & @BCFE_Official