How To Trade Futures

Tamsin Nolan knows all about overcoming limitations to achieve her dreams: “I can’t draw at all. So I always thought I couldn’t do fashion because I can’t draw, I can’t make anything. So when I found this course, I was delighted. We do mostly styling and visual merchandising, photoshoots and that.”

Tamsin is doing a fashion course that includes a foreign work placement element called MAKE, supported by the EU’s Erasmus Plus programme. She and five other students from Ireland went to Tenerife to help make the outlandish outfits of candidates for Queen of the local Carnival.

Daniel Pagés, a designer of the costume the students worked on really appreciated the help: “We’re 25 to 30 people working on two outfits. On top of that, we have the help from the group of Irish students.”

Since 2010, the Galway Technical Institute has given foreign work experience opportunities to more than 350 students, ranging from Journalism to Sports Monitoring.

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