A Mayo student is set to be featured in a campaign by the Marino Institute of Education.

Joseph McNulty, a third-year Bachelor of Education (Primary Teaching) student from Swinford in Co Mayo is being featured in a new communications campaign by Marino Institute of Education (MIE) in Dublin.

Entitled ‘This is MIE’, the campaign offers an insight into student life at MIE, including student societies and clubs focused on sports, traditional music, and drama and musicals, and showcases different course options at the Institute.

Joseph, who was a professional musician before he started studying at MIE, is among a small cohort of students who have been selected to feature in the campaign. He is a member of MIE’s traditional music society, which regularly organises trad music sessions and social events.

The survey outlined the preferences of different current primary teaching students to establish their preferences after graduation.

More than 100 students responded to the survey, and among the findings was that the majority of primary teaching students want to teach outside of Dublin.