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Prospective Students: Mary I 2012/2013

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  • #102
    MISU Office
    Company Representative Posts: 195 Verified rep ✭MISU Office


    Primary Teaching is 470 so everyone who gets 470 and had it first choice should be offered the course.
    Primary Teaching in Education and Psychology is 555* which means that some of those with 555 will be offered a place through random selection and unfortunately some of those on 555 will miss out.
    Arts and Early Childhood Care and Education are 370.

    Primary Teaching for Gaeltacht applicants is 430. It won't make any difference in September if you've gotten over 470 with regard to applying for this.

    Best of luck to all awaiting offers

    MISU Team


  • #103
    Talib Fiasco
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,428 ✭✭✭Talib Fiasco


    Oh ooops I read it the other way round >.<. My apologies...the excitement and tiredness obviously hindered my focus and reading abilities!

    But wow that's very interesting that there is no arterix next to Primary Teaching. As far as I remember I haven't seen that with a few years. It always had the whole 'not everyone who got the points was offered a place'. Does anyone know what happened this year that there is no arterix? Does it mean that only the bare minimum got the points? For curiosity purposes of course, I already checked my CAO and it's there for me :)


  • #104
    dambarude
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 2,503 Mod ✭✭✭✭dambarude


    TheComeUp wrote: »
    Oh ooops I read it the other way round >.<. My apologies...the excitement and tiredness obviously hindered my focus and reading abilities!

    But wow that's very interesting that there is no arterix next to Primary Teaching. As far as I remember I haven't seen that with a few years. It always had the whole 'not everyone who got the points was offered a place'. Does anyone know what happened this year that there is no arterix? Does it mean that only the bare minimum got the points? For curiosity purposes of course, I already checked my CAO and it's there for me :)

    I'm not sure what you mean by 'only the bare minimum got the points'.

    Demand for teaching courses is down nationally, which means less people would have applied for the B.Ed in Mary I (I'm surmising). That would mean that there was less demand for the course, and that fewer people were clustered on 470 points waiting for entry to the course. Other years, by the time places had been given out in order of points, there might have been lets say 10 places left at 470 points. But there might have been 15 applicants with 470 points. Random selection decided which 10 got in, and that's where the asterisk * comes from. This year random selection wasn't required.

    Now that's a really rough example, and other scenarios could have led to it. I'm wondering if 400 places were made available this year, the same as other years? I'm guessing they were or the points would have been higher.


  • #105
    goldensyrup
    Registered Users Posts: 39 ✭goldensyrup


    just out of interest, how many places are available for primary teaching this year?


  • #106
    Poxyshamrock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,859 ✭✭✭Poxyshamrock


    goldensyrup wrote: »
    just out of interest, how many places are available for primary teaching this year?

    I think that instead of it being 400 for a 3 year course, it's now 300 for the 4 year course.

    That's what was said at a union council meeting last year. Reason being that the college in its current state couldn't handle an extra 400 students.


  • #107
    dambarude
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 2,503 Mod ✭✭✭✭dambarude


    Poxyshamrock wrote: »
    I think that instead of it being 400 for a 3 year course, it's now 300 for the 4 year course.

    That's what was said at a union council meeting last year. Reason being that the college in its current state couldn't handle an extra 400 students.

    I wonder if that actually went ahead though Poxyshamrock?

    If it's the case that only 300 B.Eds started, and the points are still at 470 rather than rising, it means there was a significant drop off in interest in the course.


  • #108
    Poxyshamrock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,859 ✭✭✭Poxyshamrock


    dambarude wrote: »
    I wonder if that actually went ahead though Poxyshamrock?

    If it's the case that only 300 B.Eds started, and the points are still at 470 rather than rising, it means there was a significant drop off in interest in the course.

    Yeah, I was thinking the same!

    If they did reduce numbers by that much, I can't see how the points stayed the same (and lost the asterisk). :eek:


  • #109
    DaisysB
    Registered Users Posts: 24 ✭DaisysB


    Post-Grad course for Primary Teaching question
    dambarude, you partially answered my question in a previous post, that there is 2 weeks of teaching practice in semester 1. Could you please give a quick outline of the course format, approximately how many hours attendance per week and an idea of how the Gaeltacht and Teaching Practice fit into the 3 semesters. I can't find anything like this on the MaryI website.
    Thank you, the information will help me to decide if the course would suit in terms of travelling and working arrangements.


  • #110
    crayon1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 62 ✭✭crayon1


    There's over 400 in 1st year this year!


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