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Difference between HETAC Bachelors and University?

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  • 11-01-2012 1:25am
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    Danny911
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    The HETAC Bachelors in Business (Hons) is one year, and for the same degree in a DCU is 3/4 years?!


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    Further Ed.
    Registered Users Posts: 414 ✭✭Further Ed.


    The honours degree (Level 8) is an add-on to a HETAC Ordinary Degree (level 7) which you must have completed before starting the Level 8


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    Danny911
    Closed Accounts Posts: 64 ✭✭Danny911


    So its 2 years in all then? is it recognised as much or would I be better off applying to DCU and if all else fails do the HETAC course?


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    Further Ed.
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    No it is not 2 years - you would have to do either a level 7 degree (usually 3 years) and then a top-up year to get your Level 8 - this route is usually offered in Institutes of Technology and allows students to decide whether they want to get the honours degree after they ahve acheived the ordinary delgree.

    You could enter a Level 8 degree directly which can be either 3 or 4 years but the content will be harder in a Level 8 that takes 3 years than a level 7 that takes 3 years. If you are still unsure what I am saying then if you are a second level student talk to your Career Guidance Counsellor.

    The DCU degree is accredited by DCU and the HETAC degree is accredited by the Higher Education Training Awards Council but it is the level which is the factor not the body that accredits them.


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    confuseddotcom
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    Ah jeepers FurtherEd!! :( In fairness there's no question that you do sound like someone well-educated, knowledgeable, and who knows what they are talking about! :) But save the big words for a rainy day. :/ Any chance you could run with that again in Layman's Terms please and t.y. :)


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    looksee
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    With the greatest respect confuseddotcom, what Further Ed has said is not complicated. It is in language that someone hoping to do a degree of any level should be able to understand.


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    confuseddotcom
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    looksee wrote: »
    It is in language that someone hoping to do a degree of any level should be able to understand.


    My point exactly! :)


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    kob29
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    Both hetac and uni honours degrees are four years long. If you go to a uni you have to pass four years before you get an award. If you go to an institute of technology and want to do an honours degree you can go into a two year higher cert and stop there or if you do well enough in that you can go onto an ordinary degree that lasts another year, so after three years you have an ordinary degree, then if you do well enough in that you can do an add on year and get an honours degree. And +1 on the "someone hoping to do an hons degree should be able to understand the that description of the system".....scary!


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