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  • 14-11-2012 05:08PM
    #1
    martinak89
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 177 ✭✭


    Hi guys, really sorry if this is in the wrong place but I need some help! I have my undergraduate BSc and a Masters of Science but cannot get a job in the field that I have studied for. So I'm thinking that I would like to teach primary school kids as I would prefer that more than secondary school teaching. I did Honors Irish for my LC, in fact I did all honors except for Maths and I still speak some Irish even now, so I'm hoping I should qualify.

    What I would like to know is where people have studied the postgraduate HDip? I've seen a course in TCD that seems interesting but I'm wondering if people have gone anywhere else and what was the course like? Also how much did it cost and would there be any hope of me getting some sort of a mature student grant (I'm 23 in December) to help pay for the course because I am super skint!

    Thanks for the help and again sorry of this is in the wrong place


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  • #2
    byhookorbycrook
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 12,548 Mod ✭✭✭✭byhookorbycrook


    Sorry to be negative but it's nearly impossible to get even short term subbing work in primary at present and if anything, prospects are getting worse. Unless you can afford to survive on few days work a week for the foreseeable future, going into teaching may not be the way to go.


  • #3
    ShamoBuc
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 35,019 CMod ✭✭✭✭ShamoBuc


    Are you trying to get into teaching just to get a job or do you actually want to be a teacher? I hope it's the latter.
    The competition to get a teaching job is unreal and it will probably get a lot worse before it gets better. There are qualified teachers with a few years experience finding it very difficult to get subbing.
    You would really want to be a teacher in this day and age to even think about trying to qualify.
    There are a few threads with a lot of information on the various different options available to you, do a search and read them and see which one might be more to your suiting - the best of luck to you.


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