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No leaving cert - any options for teaching?

  • 19-02-2008 8:17am
    #1
    pow wow
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    Does not having a Leaving Cert effectively end opportunities for subbing as well as teaching?

    This is for a friend of mine, she has a BA in History & Politics (we're both mature students so we didn't need our LCs to apply). I'm going on to do a Masters, she is toying with the idea of teaching but says without her Leaving Cert Irish she is pretty much out of luck. Is the same true of substitute work?

    Also, if she wanted to do the full teacher training course would she need the whole Leaving Cert of just LC Irish?

    Thanks a million, I did go through previous posts but couldn't find any relating to leaving school early!


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  • #2
    Rosita
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    A degree trumps the Leaving Cert hands down. In broad terms there are no problems. There may even be a slight advantage in that she'd have the admiration of one and all in the circumstances.

    In narrower terms, however, leaving cert Irish would be required for primary teaching anyway. It is also possible to do a two-year diploma which is the equivalent (it's higher actually) in that it gets over the Irish requirement.

    Doing the Leaving Cert Irish would be the easier option. But if she's coming from a position of not having done Irish for years obviously it'll be a challenge. But after studying for the degree she'll be used to studying.


  • #3
    pow wow
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    Thanks very much! She is leaning more toward secondary teaching anyway so hopefully no LC won't be too much of a hurdle.

    She's taking a year off at the minute, could she apply to sub without the LC?


  • #4
    rainbowtrout
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    ellscurr wrote: »
    Thanks very much! She is leaning more toward secondary teaching anyway so hopefully no LC won't be too much of a hurdle.

    She's taking a year off at the minute, could she apply to sub without the LC?

    i wouldn't imagine it would be a major problem if she has a history degree, there are plenty of people subbing with degrees and no teaching qualifications. Leaving Cert doesn't really come into it.


  • #5
    MathsManiac
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    Also, I think the requirement for second-level teachers to pass an Irish exam was dropped a few years, (but I could be mistaken).


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