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She's either getting her advice confused, or she's getting confused advice...She [...] has been advised to avoid a specific 'teaching course' and get as good a 'primary' degree as possible.
[...] She was in UCD recently for a career day and they suggested she could do an Arts degree and then a further year at the end for her teaching side of things !
Q. Can I hold down full-time employment alongside this course?
A. This is a part-time course so in theory you can be in full-time employment.
However, on-site classes are held on Saturdays and all practical components of the course are taught during face-to-face classes. Students will be required to give a full-time commitment to this course to attend 2 on-site Physical Education programmes (for one week and one weekend - Sat & Sun) and a 3-week course in the Gaeltacht during the summer and to complete 14 weeks of Teaching Practice in 3 blocks of 4 weeks, 5 weeks and 5 weeks at times specified by the College.
For primary teaching, the entry qualification is a B.Ed degree from either , Mary Immaculate in Limerick, or one of the smaller Colleges of Education (Froebel, http://www.mie.ie (Marino)). The only other option is the graduate route — do a degree first, then apply to the 18-month Grad. Dip in Primary Education available from the above-mentioned, or via the part-time online course available privately at Hibernia College (which personally I consider an inappropriate way to learn how to teach young children, and many in the 3rd level sector would tend to [broken link removed]).
So please don't put words into my mouth ...or you'll be straight up to the moderators' office!'In our first year of operation over 90 per cent of our applications came from unqualified teachers already working in the primary school system,' says Hibernia president Sean Rowland.
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