Friendship – Open Training College

They did it! The first group to achieve the QQI Certificate in Intellectual Disability Practice Level 5 Award have graduated!

The annual College conferring ceremony in November in the RDS is always a special occasion to celebrate and acknowledge the graduates of the College. It had an extra sparkle this year as we conferred the first cohort of 74 care…

Where are they now?

As the College continues to celebrate our 25th year anniversary delivering education and training to the disability and wider non-profit sector, we have asked graduates to inform us of where they are and how their OTC education has had an…

Sector leaders explain the importance of new Social Care degree

Missed the recent launch of the new Social Care degree? Watch some sector leaders explain the importance of the newly revalidated Social care degree now on offer through the Open Training College, and why it will contribute to making a…

So long Judith Snow and thanks for all the gifts.

On May 31st, this year, the world of disability activism, indeed the world itself, lost one of its brightest stars, Judith Snow. Described as the ‘Julia Roberts’ of the disability community, with her passion, enthusiasm and dedication, equally as famous;…