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Admissions in NUIG

  • 16-01-2020 12:25AM
    #1
    squinn2912
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,346 ✭✭✭


    Please see an email I sent to NUIG below regarding recognition of Irish gcse for students applying to university from the north. Can anyone verify or advise me?

    Hi folks.

    I’m an Irish language teacher in the North and my students came to me today with a question about your admissions. They have been advised that there are courses in NUIG that accept GCSE Spanish or French but not Irish. The reason they have been told is that Irish is not a foreign language.

    I can’t imagine this to be the case but I told them I’d get word from yourselves. So can you please advise me of any course that doesn’t recognise gcse Irish but does recognise gcse Spanish/french please?

    Le gach beannacht,
    Stiofán

    Sent from my iPhone


Comments

  • #2
    RealJohn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,099 ✭✭✭RealJohn


    Why would Irish count as a foreign language, especially in Galway?


  • #3
    squinn2912
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,346 ✭✭✭squinn2912


    RealJohn wrote: »
    Why would Irish count as a foreign language, especially in Galway?

    Anywhere in Ireland it shouldn’t and I think doesn’t count as a foreign language. My question is more asking if Galway specifically asks for a foreign language or not. It turns out not, thankfully. The university admissions staff got back to my email and other languages hold no more sway than our native tongue. Go raibh maith agat as an fhreagra


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