The Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme is an educational opportunities scheme for unemployed persons which is funded by the Department of Education and Science with assistance from the European Social Fund. The Scheme is operated through the Vocational Education Committees and provides a special range of courses designed to meet the education and training needs of unemployed people.

The aims of the scheme are :

• to give unemployed people education and training opportunities which will develop their employability
• to prepare people to go into paid employment or on to further opportunities leading to paid employment

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