When are the results out?

boomerang

Anyone know how long you typically have to wait for your results on completion of a FETAC course? We have our last exam tomorrow.

Nadser

Can't remember the exact dates, but around mid-July. Any results you may be told before this date are provisional

Further Ed.

There are major changes to the process this year and thus the timing of when the results are available.

Results are now confirmed online by the centre in early June with statement of results available to centres from the FETAC online system by mid to end June and certification will be issued early July to the centre. It is up to the centres as to when they will issue them.

boomerang

Thanks, Further Ed.

So what you're saying is, the centre will likely email students with their results or publish the results on the school intranet in early June, but the actual FETAC certificate won't be issued until much later in the summer?

Further Ed.

Not strictly accurate. I never stated anything about results available to students in early June, rather that the results are confirmed after the External Authentication or Examination process in early June on the FETAC system but are not available to centres until mid to late June.

The results slips that were previously issued by FETAC to centres in early July will now be available via the FETAC system to centres to print out from mid to late June onwards (about 2-3 weeks earlier than last year).

How and when the centre actually issues these to students is up to the centre itself. Most seem to post results out to students. You should contact your centre to ascertain how they will issue them. This is assuming that you are entered for May assessment - your last exam may be this week but it really depends on when your centres enters you for assessment.

Alot depends on the centres procedures. Last year there were several people on this website who had not received their results due to the fact the centre, where their course was ran was also a secondary school and thus was closed for part of the summer holidays.

The actual FETAC certificates will also be issued to centres earlier than last year.

Dean820

I know someone who didn't get their FETAC cerificate from last year like literially eight months after they got the results. Thats shocking.

boomerang

We are now being told by the course co-ordinator that we will not have our results until September, never mind the certificates! :eek:

Difficult Times

boomerang wrote: »

We are now being told by the course co-ordinator that we will not have our results until September, never mind the certificates! :eek:

As a tutor, in the past 11 years of teaching FETAC courses, the External Assessor has never changed a result that I awarded.

The Certs are exceedingly slow, but you can request a preliminary result from your center, for CV purposes.

TFK

boomerang wrote: »

We are now being told by the course co-ordinator that we will not have our results until September, never mind the certificates! :eek:

I had my last exam on the 5th of May and got my results this morning. We won't get our certs till Oct though.

That seems like an awfully long time you have to wait.

alie

We were told there is a huge delay and i have just finished my 4th module and we were told november !

Further Ed.

Alie - it sounds like that you are not entered until autumn assessment period.

Ask your Co-ordinator when are you entered - not when you complete it. They mayu be keeping your assessments for the different modules and entering them at the same time.

Also remember if you are completing your award for progression to third level then you will need to be entered at the same time for all the modules.

External Examiners have changed grades in the past and any results issued by a centre prior to the confirming of the results by FETAC are only provisional.

In relation to the delay of the issue of the certs many centres wait and issue these at a graduation ceremony and this may be the delay but once the June results are out then the certs can not be printed by FETAC til the appeal time frame is up. This year centres are handling the appeal process themselves and not FETAC so until the whole process is completed FETAC don't start processing the official certs.

Finally do remember that there are major changes to the processes this year and next so don't assume anything that happened in the past in terms of timeframe etc is going to happen this year.

Best of luck with the results

nhg

My sister received her results yesterday in the post from her college, she sat her exams in May and they had a date for graduation on the letter.

alie

Further Ed. wrote: »

Alie - it sounds like that you are not entered until autumn assessment period.

Ask your Co-ordinator when are you entered - not when you complete it. They mayu be keeping your assessments for the different modules and entering them at the same time.

Also remember if you are completing your award for progression to third level then you will need to be entered at the same time for all the modules.

External Examiners have changed grades in the past and any results issued by a centre prior to the confirming of the results by FETAC are only provisional.

In relation to the delay of the issue of the certs many centres wait and issue these at a graduation ceremony and this may be the delay but once the June results are out then the certs can not be printed by FETAC til the appeal time frame is up. This year centres are handling the appeal process themselves and not FETAC so until the whole process is completed FETAC don't start processing the official certs.

Finally do remember that there are major changes to the processes this year and next so don't assume anything that happened in the past in terms of timeframe etc is going to happen this year.

Best of luck with the results

Thanks, I have completed 4 modules and got results for 3 of them(final), we were told we would get results from 4th module in november, still have 4 modules to complete, we do not know when or where these will be, we have already attended Ringsend, Crumlin and Inchicore! We are called the scatter group? 5 of us in total from one company, we are all from d14 and originally we were to complete our course in Kilbarrack but our boss thought it too far to travel, sothats why we are placed in all different colleges, we were separated for 1 module already. We have been left up in the air so to speak .

patmustard100

After all the intelligent people get a place in university!

alie

patmustard100 wrote: »

After all the intelligent people get a place in university!

An unintelligent quote :mad:

ayumi

nhg wrote: »

My sister received her results yesterday in the post from her college, she sat her exams in May and they had a date for graduation on the letter.

I received mine on wednesday and I did my exams in May and I also have the date of the graduation on the letter.

GALWAYINDOOR

i didnt know fetac courses do graduations ?

alie

Yes they do , cape and gown

GALWAYINDOOR

really wow never knew that. and is it up to the plc places if they wish to have a ceremony ? i have completed a fetac course but was never told about this

Nadser

It's up to the centre whether or not there is a graduation. Some may also have a 'cap and gown' graduation, but again it's up to the centre where you did the course. There are no official FETAC colours for graduation.

Further Ed.

Alie, who is the provider ? Is it the colleges you are doing the courses in or is a private provider ? Did you enrol for a group of modules or per module ? DM me with more details and I will try and assist

alie

Pm sent, meant to say SkillVec.

TheJinMu

I went to limerick senior, cant wait to get my results! Friend of mine got his from tipperary, anyone know when Limericks might be out...?

ayumi

I did a childcare Fetac level course in Sallynoggin College, my results are out and graduation is in September.
Got 6 Distinitications and 3 merits

alie

Well done, i bet you are delighted, my friend teaches childcare, its hard enough! wow

Further Ed.

All results have been confirmed by FETAC so any delay is now due to the centre not issuing them.

boomerang

We did our exams the first week in May but won't get our results until the end of August. It seems terribly unfair when other centres have already issued their results. Is there any way to expedite this? Can I ask FETAC for the results? The course co-ordinator is extremely unhelpful.

Further Ed.

Alert FETAC to the fact that centre isn't issuing the results until August - it is probably a breach of their QA agreement with FETAC. Email FETAC with your name, PPSN, name of the centre and their FETAC registeration number (on assessment material you would have got).

Best of luck

Nailz

Got my results in the post this afternoon; 6 distinctions, 3 merits and a pass, words cannot describe how happy I am with them - could do better but no point on dwelling upon such things in light of what I consider a great result for me.

Best of luck to everyone else regarding your results and I hope you get what you wish.

Gilldog

Im also waiting on results as i've been offered a conditional place on a degree course in Edinburgh starting September but I need to send them a copy of my results to confirm my place and im kinda panicking... My course co-ordinator was also unhelpful and told me they send out certificates in september..but i have read here and other places that i should be recieving my results pretty soon.

Further Ed, if i wanted to contac Fetac directly about getting my results, where else could I find out my centre number as i can't see it on any of the handouts i kept from the year? Is there any database of centre numbers I could look up?
thanks.

Further Ed.

Gilldog, I would suggest that you email FETAC with your PPSN number and tell them who your provider is. If they want the provider's number then see the following page on the FETAC website http://www.fetac.ie/fetac/alphabet.do?check=A

You wont get your certificate until the autumn (that is the document that you usually frame and hang on the wall), however you should get a statement of your results. This document slip will have the heading provisional on it as you are entitled to lodge an appeal. But this statement should be sufficient for the University in Scotland.

Gilldog

Thanks, will do!

boomerang

Further Ed. wrote: »

Alert FETAC to the fact that centre isn't issuing the results until August - it is probably a breach of their QA agreement with FETAC. Email FETAC with your name, PPSN, name of the centre and their FETAC registeration number (on assessment material you would have got).

Thanks for the advice, I emailed FETAC last night. No harm in trying.

Gilldog

I emailed them twice this morning and both times they responded within about 15 mins, they were really helpful.

Wish I could say the same about the college, I rang and talked to some guy who didn't seem to know what I was talking about, and basically just said 'we haven't received them, when we do we'll send them out'. I tried to explain that I had been in touch with Fetac and was told that they have issued the results already, all they need to do is print them out and send them, but he didn't really listen, ...BAH!

boomerang

Reply from FETAC this morning:

"We appreciate you are anxious to have your results. FETAC expects all providers to issue results to learners as soon as is practical after we issue them. I will contact them on Monday to discuss this with them. However I can not direct them to do so as it may have something to do with staff at the centre not being available. Hopefully they will issue them shortly to you."

Of course the results were confirmed while the school was still open during the Leaving Cert and staff were there to send them out. Fat chance of them sending them out now. :<

Bally8

Certificates for May arrived at our centre on Friday. We sent them out to the students yesterday. It seems to me that the most of the problems people are having are coming from their course provider and not FETAC.



*not that I am a huge fan of FETAC, it's just in my experience, issuing of results and certificates has never been an issue.

PTH2009

got my results today for Office Administration in the Waterford College of Further Education or CTI (as its known in Waterford).

Didint do Work Experience or Communications done it on a previous course

Got Merits in Text Production and Business Admin

Got Distinctions in Payroll, Bookeeping, Spreadsheets and Customer Service.

Happy enough 2 Merits and 4 Distinctions

alie

Well done

alie

Whats needed work wise for a distinction in Workplace Statutory legal procedures, not many of the people who were doing some of their modules alongside me did not pass?

boomerang

Bally8 wrote: »

Certificates for May arrived at our centre on Friday. We sent them out to the students yesterday. It seems to me that the most of the problems people are having are coming from their course provider and not FETAC.

Well, our course provider got the results a few weeks ago, during the Leaving Cert when there were still staff at the school. But we are not getting the results until the end of August. That is just so aggravating! I'm not even bothered about going to the graduation now - they clearly don't give a hoot about us. Good on ye Bally8 for getting the results out to the students so fast.

boomerang

The school have started sending out the results so I guess that phone call to the school from FETAC on Monday did the trick.

alie

Got my cert for Occupational first aid but did not receive my Irish Heart Foundation cert? Will need it for care skills, is it sent separatley?

Martin2009

say if you didn't go to your graduation , would they sent you the certificate in the post? let me know

TheJinMu

Martin, yes I think so. It said on my invite this year that it would be sent on if I didnt attend and I'm not going so they should send it on.

Further Ed.

Contact your college and confirm the arrangements with them as each college has a different procedure

alie

Further Ed. wrote: »

Gilldog, I would suggest that you email FETAC with your PPSN number and tell them who your provider is. If they want the provider's number then see the following page on the FETAC website http://www.fetac.ie/fetac/alphabet.do?check=A

You wont get your certificate until the autumn (that is the document that you usually frame and hang on the wall), however you should get a statement of your results. This document slip will have the heading provisional on it as you are entitled to lodge an appeal. But this statement should be sufficient for the University in Scotland.

Hi, we are now attending Finglas for a further three modules, we have been all over Dublin at this stage, I have my results from previous 4 modules and have received three certs so far. Thanks for all your information,

alie

Further Ed. wrote: »

Gilldog, I would suggest that you email FETAC with your PPSN number and tell them who your provider is. If they want the provider's number then see the following page on the FETAC website http://www.fetac.ie/fetac/alphabet.do?check=A

You wont get your certificate until the autumn (that is the document that you usually frame and hang on the wall), however you should get a statement of your results. This document slip will have the heading provisional on it as you are entitled to lodge an appeal. But this statement should be sufficient for the University in Scotland.

Hi, we ate now attending Finglas for a further three modules, we have been all over Dublin at this stage, I have my results from previous 4 modules and have received three certs so far. Thanks for all your information,