How strict are Furthur Education Institutes on absences?

doylo56

I am going to Carlow IFE and so far I have missed 7 classes, 5 due to laziness and 2 due to an alarm not going off in the morning and also to stormy rainy weather (I walk a half hour to the college)

Anyway I promised myself to go in everyday (I only have three days in the week anyway), but now I have found out that there is a CAO workshop at the college, and also on the Monday my course is not in the college itself. Due to our prefabs being torn down, we have to go to the VEC centre for two of the three days and it is all the way across town. So if I was at the college, I would miss half a class but I would still be marked in. But because I am at the VEC centre and it is a 40 minute walk, I will end up missing two more classes, and I don't know anyone well enough to get a lift if the people with cars are going to it. Most of my class dont have cars anyway.

I just keep freaking out but this is a college activity and they understand that it is a long walk for our course, so if my teachers up at the VEC knew that I had to go to this, could I be let off and still marked in?

I just really don't want to miss anymore days, I think 5 days off is WAY too small.

How did attendance regulations work for you? And what exactly is Special Leave meant to mean?

irishbarb

Well for me, our attendance has to be at 80%.

looksee

The idea is that you are going to college to get a qualification. If you don't go you won't get it, either because you won't have the work done or because the college authorities will decide you are not interested and you will be out.

People who don't bother going to class are a selfish liability to everyone else. They turn up when they feel like it and then expect someone to explain what they have missed, come up with all sorts of rubbish reasons why they have not done the work and generally create delays and issues for the people who do turn up.

Everyone can have problems and the days you are allowed are to make up for those problems, not to accommodate laziness. Special leave is to allow for things like family weddings, sick children and other legitimate reasons why you might need a day off.

The system works on the same basis (well easier in fact) as if you were working. It gives you an idea of the level of commitment you would need for a job. If you can't hack it in college you are not going to get very far with a job.

All your complicated explanations of why you cannot get to college are irrelevant. Its your education, your qualification, your problem. It is unlikely that the college has arranged things so it is impossible for you to do them, maybe if you had been there you would have a better idea of arrangements that have been made.

Instead of whinging about how 5 days is not enough, concentrate on getting into class and getting on with what you have committed to. Its quite likely that at least one other person would have gladly taken the place you have got.

annex

Using distance as an excuse not to go to class is not a very valid reason to miss classes! I travel about 4 and a half hours each day (return) in order to get my education. If you want it enough then nothing will stop you from getting to classes.
When I did my FETAC they were very strict, one person had a terrible record and the course co-ordinator reported them to the local VEC and they lost their grant until a time when their attendance was improved.

castaway_lady

Im annoyed reading your post, you shouldn't have 5 days missed in the year let along in half a term. Special leave means a family funeral, hospitalization, family wedding. You're living in a brutal recession, have been given a chance to get a qualification, how do you expect to be worthy of this certificate if you haven't got the work covered? No you cant be marked in when you're not there, no professional with a jot of regard for their job is going to mark you in for sitting at home.

Get up earlier, put on your trainers and a rain jacket and walk for the 40 minutes for 3 little days of your life and grow out of the mentality of childish entitlement and spoon feeding....sheeeesh.

doylo56

Jesus..sorry I asked....

seavill

Look people are right, grow up and take some responsibility, someone who actually wanted to attend probably missed out to give you a place.

You said u already walk 30 mins to college, but walking 40 mins is out of the question. If you don't want to go just drop out and stop wasting your time and more importantly the time of your teachers and fellow students.