WYTEC General Learning 4M2010 Pathways to Apprenticeship – 2026/27

Education requirements

Applicants seeking entry to the programme must have achieved a minimum of a QQI level 3 Major award or its equivalent prior to entry to the programme.

Age requirements

16

Learning aptitude

The programme will suit learners who have identified their career pathway and are seeking to further develop their key, employment related, transferable and vocational skills, knowledge and competence. All participants on the programme must have received clearance through the Garda Vetting procedures before any engagement with children as part of their programme of training

Previous experience

Alternatively, applicants may have achieved the equivalent standard of Knowledge, skill and competence through relevant work experience

Learners will be able to: 1. Demonstrate personal skills that enable them to be effective in familiar and unfamiliar social and employment situations. 2. Display an ability to interact positively in the managed learning environment and/or the learner’s individual work experience situation. 3. Communicate verbally and nonverbally in routine everyday tasks, and in work-related tasks while under supervision. 4. Display an ability to resolve a moderate range of mathematical problems in the managed learning environment and/or individual's work experience situation. 5. Use a moderate range of information technology skills to apply known solutions to a range of predictable problems in the managed learning environment or individual work experience situation. 6. Demonstrate a moderate range of skill, knowledge and competence related to vocational areas as identified by the learner in their selected elective choices as necessary for their chosen career path.