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So what happens if I take an online FÁS course? (on JSA at the moment)

  • 23-02-2013 12:05pm
    #1
    Tombi!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,689 ✭✭✭


    I'm under 25 but because I've been on it so long, I still get the 188 a week.

    Will any of my payment be affected by the course?
    Or is there anything else I need to know about it?

    I just pick the course from the FÁS site and go down to the local Intero (it's been named that now) and ask them to sign me up or is it different?

    If it matters it's an ECDL one and I know a few places let you do the tests for free around where I live so that's not a problem about the tests


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  • #2
    Stevolende
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 483 ✭✭Stevolende


    Would think you would need to show you were keeping up with their pacing of the course. Deliver feedback/assignments or whatever when they say. Not otherwise sure, those things sound really open ended so temptation would be to be doing them in clumps with gaps in between relying on your own personal discipline to keep practising in between.

    & not sure what story would be on satisfying dole requirements that you were looking for work, since you're not in a time-sheetd classroom it might lead to them coming down on you for proof you were seeking work.

    So I'd be wondering why you'd need to do it through FAS online since there are probably better tutorials online through other sources.

    Whereas doing it in a classroom means you're intermingling with other students who help you keep pace to some extent. & less likely to be hounded by dole at least during course duration since there is proof taht you are trying to advance yourself & they know where you are while trying to do so


  • #3
    Tombi!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,689 ✭✭✭Tombi!


    Yeah I could try to get a day course but I'd rather not.


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