Acknowledgements

What is the Transferable Skills Project?

The success of the Transferable Skills Project is due to the dedication, support and enthusiasm of many people. Thanks are given most especially to the following:

The "pilot lecturers" who prepared for and implemented the project:

Dr Jennifer Bruen, DCU
Dr Carmel Coyne, WIT
Ms Veronica Crosbie, DCU
Ms Katrin Eberbach, TCD
Ms Fiona Gallagher, DCU
Ms Niamh Kelly, DCU
Dr Gillian Martin, TCD
Ms Rosanna Molloy, WIT
Dr Cormac O'Cuilleanáin, TCD
Mr Don O'Neill, WIT
Ms Juliette Péchenart, DCU
Ms Elisa Sperati, TCD

All the above are from the following Schools/Departments: School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies, DCU; Department of Languages and Tourism, WIT; Department of Germanic Studies, TCD; and Department of Italian, TCD.

Thanks are also due to Dr Jürgen Barkhoff, Mr Thomas Müller, Dr Tim Jackson and Ms Birgit Sens in the Department of Germanic Studies, TCD, who also participated in the implementation of the pilot programme.

Thanks are due to all members of the Project Steering Committee over the three years:

Dr Jennifer Bruen, SALIS, DCU
Mr Noss Clyne-Kelly, Business & German student, TCD
Ms Angela Collins, Head, Careers Centre, WIT
Ms Helen Coskeran, Germanic Studies student, TCD
Ms Veronica Crosbie, SALIS, DCU
Mr Seán Gannon, Director, Careers Advisory Service, TCD
Dr Maggie Gibbon, SALIS, DCU
Ms Rachel McCormack, Marketing & Languages student, WIT
Ms Caroline Nash, Assistant Director, IBEC
Ms Muireann Ní Dhuigneáin, Head, Careers Service, DCU
Ms Rhona Sherry, Project Officer, TCD
Ms Orlaith Tunney, Project Manager and Careers Adviser, TCD

Thanks are due to the Higher Education Authority for funding the project for three years, from January 2003 to January 2006.

Finally, thanks are due to Prof Moray McGowan (TCD), Mr Richard Hayes (WIT), and Dr Jenny Williams (DCU), Heads of the aforementioned Schools/Departments, who supported their staff in participating in this project and who facilitated the project in presenting its findings to staff in their Departments.

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