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Unemployed, qualified, need college advice please!

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  • 18-09-2009 1:54am
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    deanodrummer
    Registered Users Posts: 128 ✭✭


    Howdy Boardsies,

    I'm currently unemployed, have Leaving Cert, Fetac Level 6 certified bricklayer and Grade 8 drummer with Trinity/Guildhall London, which I recognised with Ofqual and an NQF in Britain. Currently want to go to college but don't know what qualifications they would take? Does anybody know if the English qualification is accredited here or vice-versa and what kinda grants unemployed people get.

    I'm totally lost so any help/info is appreciated, or does anyone even know a link to where I can get the info?

    Cheers.


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    Larianne
    Registered Users Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    Yes, the would take your qualifications into account. I'd contact the uni(s) you're interested in and ask them about it. Irish and UK colleges would be used to dealing with applications from either country.

    There are two websites http://www.qualificationsrecognition.ie/recognition/index.html and http://www.nfq.ie/nfq/en/index.html where you might get some information but I'm pretty sure the college sorts it out. I was applying last year to the UK and they wanted to know about the Access course I was doing. I just forwarded them onto the admissions person at the college.

    There is a lot of information on this forum about grants for the unemployed - Back To Education Allowance is one of them. If you put BTEA in the search, you should get some threads on it. (I'll try link some later, I'm too tired to go looking at the mo).

    Have a look at this thread
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055676871 on Tips for Applying as a Mature Student, which might help you get started.


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