Honours Irish with Kilroys distance course

Pangea

Hello I want to do Honours Irish for primary school teaching.
I have read about Kilroys college, they offer you tutor and distance learning for the honours Irish.
I was wondering is there anyone out there that actually studied the Irish leaving cert course via Kilroys College?
Its pretty expensive to enroll so I would like to hear some feedback before I fork out 350 euro for it!
Please

randylonghorn

Moved from LC - probably more likely to get a response here.


Pangea, I didn't even know Kilroy's offered an LC Irish course, so I can't comment.

I do know that NUI Maynooth offer a Dioploma sa Ghaeilge for adult part-time students (1 night a week over 2 years) which is accepted by the Teacher Training Colleges as satisfying the Irish requirement, and is probably geared more to adult learning styles than the LC.

dory

A guy I was giving grinds to did that last year. He did group evening classes, grinds and that course and got a B, and he was a very average student when I first met him after Christmas.
The thing is his conversational Irish never improved due to that course, nor did his grammar. It would be good for correcting essays, you'd have tutors who were used to people answering those questions and could advise you there.
But certainly you would need something else. Any language is hard to do by distance.

mariebeth

I'm thinking about doing that course, as well as getting weekly grinds (just have to find an Irish teacher in the Cork area!) as it's the one regret that I have that I did pass Irish because I've finally figured out at the age of 25 that I would love to be a Primary School teacher. I'd like to think that my conversational Irish wouldn't be too bad, it's just a case of getting back in to the swing of things and hopefully it will come back to me.

lasair

Hi, I gave grinds to a girl who did that Kilroys course last year and I and she wouldn't recommend it.. Their response to corrections was terrible, it would take weeks to get the course material and send it back, you would wait about 2 months for your corrected work. The material they sent out was sub standard and gave no relevant info to the course. After 2 months of it and grinds from me she decided to quit the course and keep up the grinds (2 a week) instead.
Defo if you can guys invest in grinds instead and a good irish book like Diogras nua (its a green cover) and a less stress more success book cos you will do better with these than you will Kilroys.

Pangea

lasair wrote: »

Hi, I gave grinds to a girl who did that Kilroys course last year and I and she wouldn't recommend it.. Their response to corrections was terrible, it would take weeks to get the course material and send it back, you would wait about 2 months for your corrected work. The material they sent out was sub standard and gave no relevant info to the course. After 2 months of it and grinds from me she decided to quit the course and keep up the grinds (2 a week) instead.
Defo if you can guys invest in grinds instead and a good irish book like Diogras nua (its a green cover) and a less stress more success book cos you will do better with these than you will Kilroys.

Thanks very much for that information, I dont think I will be enrolling in kilroys after hearing that. Just curious, how much would an hour of grinds be, and how many hours a week is recommened.

Thanks for everyones responses.

lasair

Well I charged 25 for the hour...some may charge about 40€...depends really...for the 25 I was supplying all the notes and information..