Kildalton fetac 5 agriculture

neddynono · 30-12-2011 09:00PM #1

Hi all I was looking at the fetac level 5 certificate in kildalton college but I'm confused. On the application form it has a section to fill out about the home farm. Do you have to live on a farm before you can do this course? I want get through and do agri mechanic but don't live on a farm.( I have worked on farms though)
Also I'm 24 so is there an age limit?
Any help is appreciated.

neddynono · 03-01-2012 02:49PM

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bogman_bass · 03-01-2012 03:47PM

If it come about that there is more applicants then spaces then your agricultural experience may come into it

reilig · 03-01-2012 03:52PM

bogman_bass wrote: »

If it come about that there is more applicants then spaces then your agricultural experience may come into it

+1 on this advice.

last year there were 1200 applicants for 700 Agriculture Fetac level 5 places in the country. Candidates were chosen through interview. Agricultural experience was the main decider. They also wanted to choose people who they felt would make use of the training - ie Sons or daughters of farmers who intended going in to farming full-time on the family farm on completion of the course.

Would it not be easier to do an agricultural mechanic apprenticeship with a garage/dealer?

patjack · 03-01-2012 07:59PM

I remember doing the green cert, and there was a farm accounts module. The nosey biddy a Teagasc employee, wanted our home farm accounts to carry out some of the lessons. Anyway I didn't have farm accounts because i hadn't started farming and our land was leased for the past ten years. She basically threathened that if i didnt produce some accounts from the home farm i wouldn't get the green cert, I mean WTF. Basically just saying a lot of what teagasc ask for isn't always terribly relevant

neddynono · 03-01-2012 09:38PM

reilig wrote: »

+1 on this advice.

last year there were 1200 applicants for 700 Agriculture Fetac level 5 places in the country. Candidates were chosen through interview. Agricultural experience was the main decider. They also wanted to choose people who they felt would make use of the training - ie Sons or daughters of farmers who intended going in to farming full-time on the family farm on completion of the course.

Would it not be easier to do an agricultural mechanic apprenticeship with a garage/dealer?

Very hard to get anything like this. Ive searched everywhere online unless I go into individual garages and ask them to take me on. I wonder is there another way to bypass the level 5 straight into mechanic course?.

neddynono · 03-01-2012 09:41PM

patjack wrote: »

I remember doing the green cert, and there was a farm accounts module. The nosey biddy a Teagasc employee, wanted our home farm accounts to carry out some of the lessons. Anyway I didn't have farm accounts because i hadn't started farming and our land was leased for the past ten years. She basically threathened that if i didnt produce some accounts from the home farm i wouldn't get the green cert, I mean WTF. Basically just saying a lot of what teagasc ask for isn't always terribly relevant

Does that mean on the application form I just leave the part about the home farm blank? It doesn't make sense that I have to do a course in farming to work on machinery! Why do I need a home farm to train as a mechanic?

03-01-2012 10:31PM

neddynono wrote: »

Does that mean on the application form I just leave the part about the home farm blank? It doesn't make sense that I have to do a course in farming to work on machinery! Why do I need a home farm to train as a mechanic?

i think trailee IT do a machinery course through the cao < i remember applying for it in 2001 and being offered a place and then took on a place in a teasgasc ag college I am sorry to this day for not going to trailee

patjack · 03-01-2012 11:16PM

neddynono wrote: »

Does that mean on the application form I just leave the part about the home farm blank? It doesn't make sense that I have to do a course in farming to work on machinery! Why do I need a home farm to train as a mechanic?

I'd imagine you would have to leave it blank, I would give them a call to make sure, you wouldn't want to leave it blank if it hindered your chances of getting in.

neddynono · 03-01-2012 11:37PM

6480 wrote: »

i think trailee IT do a machinery course through the cao < i remember applying for it in 2001 and being offered a place and then took on a place in a teasgasc ag college I am sorry to this day for not going to trailee

I'm guessing you done the palleskenry course? Was teagasc really that bad? I might apply to both places and see what offer I get. I thought getting an education was easy these days?:rolleyes:

03-01-2012 11:53PM

neddynono wrote: »

I'm guessing you done the palleskenry course? Was teagasc really that bad? I might apply to both places and see what offer I get. I thought getting an education was easy these days?:rolleyes:

no went to ballyhaise in cavan , but i heard the course in palleskenry is good . its good one way to see demand again for these courses as when i was doing the leaving in 2000 people would laugh at a lad going to ag college. But alot of the lads that were at school with me started working on building sites , but not too many sites going these days

neddynono · 04-01-2012 12:02AM

6480 wrote: »

no went to ballyhaise in cavan , but i heard the course in palleskenry is good . its good one way to see demand again for these courses as when i was doing the leaving in 2000 people would laugh at a lad going to ag college. But alot of the lads that were at school with me started working on building sites , but not too many sites going these days

I still think it's strange that to be a mechanic you first have to know general farm work like how to feed calfs etc.. Tralee it would be a bit far away due to family issues. Any other it do it?

Kildalton fetac 5 agriculture

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