BSc (Hons) Government - CK210

Mweelrea

Could anyone shed some light on this particular course. I noticed one of the career options was teaching, what kind of teaching would that be ?

Thanks !

JohnMearsheimer

I'm a Government graduate and my views of the course are here:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055664739&highlight=Government&page=3

As for teaching, that would be a career option with most degrees. An undergraduate degree makes you eligible for the Higher Diploma in Education which will allows you to teach in a secondary school. The Teaching Council recognises Government for the teaching of CSPE, Business and Economics but how they can say you're eligible to teach business and economics is beyond me. I only took 3 economics modules in college and most of my class avoided it as it was optional.

If you have honours Irish you can do a postgrad in primary school teaching in Mary I, Hibernia etc... A girl from my class is now primary school teacher.

If you go on to PhD level you can teach at a university.

Mweelrea

JohnMearsheimer wrote: »

I'm a Government graduate and my views of the course are here:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055664739&highlight=Government&page=3

As for teaching, that would be a career option with most degrees. An undergraduate degree makes you eligible for the Higher Diploma in Education which will allows you to teach in a secondary school. The Teaching Council recognises Government for the teaching of CSPE, Business and Economics but how they can say you're eligible to teach business and economics is beyond me. I only took 3 economics modules in college and most of my class avoided it as it was optional.

If you have honours Irish you can do a postgrad in primary school teaching in Mary I, Hibernia etc... A girl from my class is now primary school teacher.

If you go on to PhD level you can teach at a university.

Thank you very much, great help

Gary ol1

A further question about government and teaching,if you wanted a job as a business or ecomomics teacher at second level with the BSc government degree another applicant went for the same degree with a commerce degree,would the commerce graduates credentials be of a higher standard than the government students?

yenom

Most jobs with a government degree need a postgrad completion.

Gary ol1

ok thanks for that!

JohnMearsheimer

Make sure you have enough credits done in the subject you want to teach...I think it's 60 credits off the top of my head.