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Primary hdip with no Irish...

  • 09-11-2008 10:27pm
    #1
    irishbran77
    Closed Accounts Posts: 107 ✭✭


    I'm thinking about pursuing this career in primary teaching. And while I have a good primary degree in history, I completely ruined my leaving cert. The problem is I don't have honours level Irish. I was reading the TCD website and it talked about a matriculation exam in both Irish and maths but it gave no further details for entry into the hDip there. Are these exams automatically given to all applicants who request them? Does anyone know the process involved in taking these exams and if the exam for Trinity is different from the one for UCD?

    Any information as regards overcoming my lack of Irish in the LC would be appreciated!


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  • #2
    KateF
    Closed Accounts Posts: 244 ✭✭KateF


    Train in UK? Course is shorter then the Ireland one too...


  • #3
    dory
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 4,575 Mod ✭✭✭✭dory


    You'd still have to do an Irish exam after the UK though, wouldn't you?
    Best bet is to start taking Irish classes pronto. Until laws are changed, Itish is going to stay a core subject and there's not much getting around it.


  • #4
    irishbran77
    Closed Accounts Posts: 107 ✭✭irishbran77


    Thanks for the replies. And yes, I've already started looking at lessons and reading the dictionaries! But I wonder when I'm up to scratch how do they assess me outside of my leaving cert results?


  • #5
    lilyrose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 74 ✭✭lilyrose


    you have 5 years to take a basic irish exam from when you graduate from england


  • #6
    KateF
    Closed Accounts Posts: 244 ✭✭KateF


    lilyrose wrote: »
    you have 5 years to take a basic irish exam from when you graduate from england
    I don't know about it being basic! I know people who've sat it and they say its in between Leaving Cert and College level of Irish. You have 5 years upon returning to teach in Ireland in which to sit the exam.


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  • #7
    rainbowtrout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,397 ✭✭✭✭rainbowtrout


    There's also a Diploma in Irish run by NUIG which is acceptable as a qualification as far as i know. I think it's run in a few centres around the country, i know it's run in my local education centre (carrick on shannon)


  • #8
    BoozyBabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,724 ✭✭✭BoozyBabe


    You can also just repeat your LC Irish exam, which is what I did in June, & I've now been accepted onto the PostGrad in Ed with Hibernia.


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