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Leaving Cert required...but failed?

  • 31-03-2011 2:35pm
    #1
    Johnstan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31 ✭


    Does failing your Leaving Cert mean you're ****ed for doing PLC's or other courses?
    Spoke to a Meath VEC advisor today who recommended I look at some courses (I'm unemployed see) and when he asked if I sat the LC I said yes, but fact is that even though I sat it, I failed all the subjects. (Yes, all)

    Would HATE to resit the LC.

    I looked at the Meath VEC website and seen a course, and noticed the requirements include the Leaving Cert.
    If you failed..does that still qualify?

    I e-mailed them and am waiting a response, but until then, what's your knowledge on the matter?


Comments

  • #2
    Bally8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,144 ✭✭✭Bally8


    It really depends on the course Johnstan. What one are you going for? In my VEC you dont need to have your leaving cert to do VTOS courses. FETAC Level 4 courses do not require you to have a leaving cert


  • #3
    Johnstan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31 ✭Johnstan


    Bally8 wrote: »
    It really depends on the course Johnstan. What one are you going for? In my VEC you dont need to have your leaving cert to do VTOS courses. FETAC Level 4 courses do not require you to have a leaving cert

    Leaving Cert is listed in the entry requirements..
    Not sure if that just means sitting it or passing it..


  • #4
    Bally8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,144 ✭✭✭Bally8


    To be honest I really dont know but usually if its on the entry requirements you need to have passed it. Sorry Im no help to you at all:(


  • #5
    Johnstan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31 ✭Johnstan


    Bally8 wrote: »
    To be honest I really dont know but usually if its on the entry requirements you need to have passed it. Sorry Im no help to you at all:(

    No problem, thanks anyway...I was told by the VEC guy that he had funds to help with certain courses...perhaps if I did it as a mature student I wouldn't need the LC?

    Fingers crossed, best I can do is ask questions and post what answers I get here...


  • #6
    Dean820
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,099 ✭✭✭Dean820


    There was a couple of lads I know who did FETAC level 5 who didn't even sit their leaving cert. Apply for the course and go to the interview, you might get in. If I had to bet, I say you would.


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  • #7
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,315 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Cases will be decided on their individual merit for most colleges. For example, someone who was following an LC programme and left in April of the exam year to have a baby/get a job could easily be considered as LC standard when applying a couple of years later for a PLC.
    The Leaving isn't the be all or end all. I have taught with teaching colleagues who did not sit a Leaving. It certainly doesn't stop you getting a degree.


  • #8
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,095 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Individual PLC providers make the decision about whether a LC is necessary. If you are a mature student you do not need a LC.


  • #9
    Further Ed.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 414 ✭✭Further Ed.


    There is no requirement for a person to have passed the LC just to have completed senior cycle or equivalent. Anyone refused a place in a PLC centre on the basis of the lack of a LC should appeal.


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