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Language college of Ireland in Bray. Any good for tefl training?

  • 11-08-2009 5:25pm
    #1
    Goiter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 50 ✭✭


    I have been looking for a cheap CELTA tefl course but a lot of these are very expensive (1400+). I talked to someone who had trained in the Language College Ireland and had good results. This is only one person though and the school offers a celt instead of an actual celta certificate. The actual qualification they say they give is an "ACELS Certificate in ELT (CELT)".

    Is this qualification any good and will it get me employed abroad? I don't have a degree (just a diploma) so I want to make sure that this will get me somewhere.

    Here's the website for more info:
    http://www.languagecollegeireland.com/TeacherTraining.htm

    I looked at the website just now and it says it does a celta course but when I enquired they handed me a celt course sheet instead (I started talking about celt so it wasn't a mistake). Maybe they don't do celta anymore? On the website they seem to be pessimistic about celta, don't know if there's any hidden agenda or they're just being honest?

    Reading through their catalogue they say that I can't teach in a recognised language school in Ireland or get awarded the actual celt certificate because I don't have a degree but instead would get their advanced (120 hour) Certificate in English language teaching. WTF? Is this normal?

    Does anybody have an experience with these guys?


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  • #2
    hot chick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 117 ✭✭hot chick


    The ACELS TEFL is the only one the Dept of Education in Ireland recognise as qualifying you as an EAL teacher.
    1400 seems a bit steep, I've seen the full course for 900 euro in drogheda
    http://www.edgewater.ie/courses/tefl.html

    Your qualification could be a bit of a sticking point.
    "Please note that non-degree holders may complete the course. However, they will not be eligible for an ACELS/ HETAC recognised/ validated award, and will not comply with the Department of Education & Science criteria for employment of teachers in the recognised sector in Ireland."

    But technically if you have a level 7 diploma, it's the equivalent of an ordinary degree so you might have a case.
    http://www.acels.ie/acelselt.htm#1
    "TEACHING IN THE RECOGNISED SECTOR IN IRELAND
    For the purposes of employment in the recognised ELT sector in Ireland, all academic staff need to hold
    1. a Level 7 qualification, normally an Ordinary Bachelor degree
    2. a ELT certificate from one of the following categories:"


    If you only want to teach abroad an i to i course might be a lot cheaper and do the job rightly.


  • #3
    Goiter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 50 ✭✭Goiter


    The 1400+ price is in relation to the celta courses that I have seen. The celt course in language college Ireland is 950 euros. I have a city and guilds diploma in TV and film production so I'll check to see if it's worth anything. Shame that you have to have certain qualifications to get a celt cert, seems a bit snobbish tbh. If I had a bachelor's degree in maths, I doubt that would make me a better english teacher;).

    Thanks for the info.


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