The Further Education and Training Committee meets regularly to review developments in this sector and to consider and address school leaders’ concerns.

The Committee hosts an annual conference in the spring.
Past themes of conferences have been:

• Putting the New Further Education & Training Sector to work for Ireland’s Future (2012)

• Further Education Colleges – Planning for the Future (2013)

• Realising Opportunities – A Vision for Further Education and Training(2014),

• Delivering Further Education & Training (2015)

• Provision to meet Local, National & Global Demand

• Business and Employer Engagement (2016)

• Leading Teaching and Learning in the New Context

The Committee published “Realising Opportunities – A Vision for Further Education and Training” in 2014. The vision “to create a learning environment where the number of learners availing of FET will increase and to provide purposeful up skilling and progression for learners, thus reflecting a determination to support the meeting of job creation targets” informs the ongoing work of the committee.