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Hibernia College

  • 10-06-2015 1:09pm
    #1
    jbb123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6 ✭


    Hello I was just wondering if the PME in primary teaching in Hibernia College is any good? Is the course respected by schools?
    Thanks for any help.


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  • #2
    EmmaB23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 ✭EmmaB23


    Hi I am currently doing the PME Master with Hibernia, I am really enjoying it! The fellow classmate as lovely and really helpful as well as the lecturers! The only thing I would say is you have to be extremely disciplined for this course, there is a need to put the work in! Well I have 2 friends that both qualified with a Hibernia degree and they both have permanent jobs now! Hope this helps :D


  • #3
    jbb123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6 ✭jbb123


    EmmaB23 wrote: »
    Hi I am currently doing the PME Master with Hibernia, I am really enjoying it! The fellow classmate as lovely and really helpful as well as the lecturers! The only thing I would say is you have to be extremely disciplined for this course, there is a need to put the work in! Well I have 2 friends that both qualified with a Hibernia degree and they both have permanent jobs now! Hope this helps :D

    Thanks very much. How do you find the online lectures etc?


  • #4
    muckisluck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 318 ✭✭muckisluck


    The Religious Cert that Hibernia sell to their students is not currently recognised by the Irish Episcopal Conference and this year has seen the first of the hardlining by Dioceses in refusing to employ Hibernia Graduates because of it. 2 dioceses have currently issued instructions to their schools but expect more to follow unless Hibernia get it sorted quickly. They have known about it since 2010 and it appears just ignored it.


  • #5
    imelle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 445 ✭✭imelle


    to be honest you would be far better off trying to do the PME in the teaching colleges. From my experience and what I have hear the Hibernia course does not prepare their students for teaching at all. For example, in terms of placement in schools Hibernia only require their students to teach 3 subjects a day on some of their placements, and not all of which have to be English, Irish and Maths. However in colleges like Marino the student teachers teach all day everyday in every subject area. I have heard that Hibernia students also know what lesson and day they are being inspected which is not the case in other teaching colleges meaning they only prepare a "good lesson" for the inspection and don't care about teaching the children at other times. As well as that Hibernia students themselves have admitted that they simply do not have the curriculum content knowledge required to teach the various classes.

    If you are willing to put in the work and educate yourself in terms of teaching and acknowledge that teaching any lesson for children on placement is as important as the next and if it is in your personality to be a teacher then yes go for it, but you will receive a far better education to make you the best teacher you can be from the other training colleges.


  • #6
    muinteoirpaul
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5 ✭muinteoirpaul


    muckisluck wrote: »
    The Religious Cert that Hibernia sell to their students is not currently recognised by the Irish Episcopal Conference and this year has seen the first of the hardlining by Dioceses in refusing to employ Hibernia Graduates because of it. 2 dioceses have currently issued instructions to their schools but expect more to follow unless Hibernia get it sorted quickly. They have known about it since 2010 and it appears just ignored it.

    The above is incorrect. The statement below from Hibernia College clarified that its qualification in Religious Education is acceptable.
    Hibernia College has been actively engaged with the Catholic Church’s Council for Catechetics to obtain approval as a recognised college and this process has now come to a conclusion. The Council, which is charged with assessing submissions from third level colleges for the recognition of qualifications to teach Religious Education in Catholic Primary Schools, has confirmed that the RE content of the Hibernia qualification meets the standards outlined in the Bishops’ Conference document on the matter. Accordingly the Council will recommend to the Bishops Conference that, at its September meeting, it approve Hibernia College as a recognised college. The Council for Catechetics has advised all dioceses of this development to assist schools in evaluating applications for job interviews this summer. Hibernia College already has accreditations with the Teaching Council and QQI.


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