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UCD Access Courses

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  • 07-01-2008 11:59pm
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    Sad Professor
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    Does anyone have any experience of these? I'm thinking about taking one next year in Arts/Human Sciences. According to the UCD website students who get more than 60% will be guaranteed a place in the degree course. Is this correct? Any small print that the site isn't mentioning? Also how difficult is the course, etc?

    Thanks.


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    randylonghorn
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    Sad Professor wrote: »
    Does anyone have any experience of these? I'm thinking about taking one next year in Arts/Human Sciences. According to the UCD website students who get more than 60% will be guaranteed a place in the degree course. Is this correct?
    I wouldn't be as familiar with UCD as some of the other ones, but that is not an unusual provision. It wouldn't be on the site if they didn't hold to it.
    Sad Professor wrote: »
    Any small print that the site isn't mentioning?
    Unlikely ... however, in most colleges guaranteed access is to the omnibus Arts degree or whatever, not necessarily to every specialist / restricted degree offered within that faculty.
    Sad Professor wrote: »
    Also how difficult is the course, etc?
    Access courses are designed to meet the needs of people who have been out of education for a time and who wish to return, and the other people on the course are likely to be from a similar background (educationally, at least) as yourself. The whole point of the course is to help them move on to the next step, and to support them to do so. That's not to say that you won't be expected to work hard or that anyone will be offering you a free ride ... but there's no reason why you shouldn't be well able to follow in the footsteps of the many students who have taken this route back into third level, and completed their degree, and often gone on to postgraduate study.

    Apart from that general comment, however, I'm not familiar enough with the UCD option to venture any specific comments on it.


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