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VEC leaving cert 2 years

  • 28-02-2011 7:29pm
    #1
    Lilith.11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭


    is it really for 2 years????
    I'll be 22 by the time its finished, I dont think i can do that. i need to get out of Ireland as fast as possible., 2 years is way too long.


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  • #2
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,232 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Lilith.11 wrote: »
    is it really for 2 years????
    I'll be 22 by the time its finished, I dont think i can do that. i need to get out of Ireland as fast as possible., 2 years is way too long.


    :confused:
    There is no such thing as a VEC Leaving Cert.

    What are you talking about?


  • #3
    Lilith.11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭Lilith.11


    spurious wrote: »
    :confused:
    There is no such thing as a VEC Leaving Cert.

    What are you talking about?

    i mean the VEC leaving cert programme


  • #4
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,232 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Again, there is no specific 'VEC Leaving cert programme'.
    The Leaving Cert course in almost all schools is a two year programme.
    Many repeat Leaving courses are only one year, but they presume you have already done the two year course in the first place.

    To do the LC programmes in six or seven subjects from scratch in one year would be pushing it.


  • #5
    partyatmygaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    spurious wrote: »
    To do the LC programmes in six or seven subjects from scratch in one year would be pushing it.
    There's no stopping you though. I'd say if you were serious about studying there's nothing stopping anyone from doing six or seven subjects in one year. All it needs is self-discipline.


  • #6
    implausible
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,937 ✭✭✭implausible


    Are you talking about the Leaving Cert course offered in VEC Adult Education centres? If so, yes, it's 2 years. Why wouldn't it be? The course takes two years after all. Many students opting to go this route left education early and/or may have been out of education for a long time; the VECs aren't offering a cheap grind school programme.


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  • #7
    Lilith.11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭Lilith.11


    deemark wrote: »
    Are you talking about the Leaving Cert course offered in VEC Adult Education centres? If so, yes, it's 2 years. Why wouldn't it be? The course takes two years after all. Many students opting to go this route left education early and/or may have been out of education for a long time; the VECs aren't offering a cheap grind school programme.

    ooooh god thats upsetting. I havent done it before but i'm really going to do it soon, so i can get out of Ireland and move to Germany. I want a leaving cert so i can have some sort of education history in my CV's etc needed for work to move but 2 years is so long!! I want to get out of here as fast as possible


  • #8
    Art Teacher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 158 ✭✭Art Teacher


    You can move to Germany without a leaving cert. You can do the equivalent of the Leaving Cert in Germany. As far as i know it will probably take about 2 years.


  • #9
    Lilith.11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭Lilith.11


    Art Teacher wrote: »
    You can move to Germany without a leaving cert. You can do the equivalent of the Leaving Cert in Germany. As far as i know it will probably take about 2 years.

    what qualifcations do you need in Germany to get a job??


  • #10
    Art Teacher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 158 ✭✭Art Teacher


    i dont know exactly. contact the German Embassy.
    It is easy to get work as an au pair ( baby minder), from Ireland with no qualification - reply to advertisements online or from newspaper.

    In the big german cities ( Cologne, Berlin, ) work in bars and cafes need no qualification - an ability to work hard.


  • #11
    whistlin_boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 140 ✭✭whistlin_boy


    Art Teacher wrote: »
    You can move to Germany without a leaving cert. You can do the equivalent of the Leaving Cert in Germany. As far as i know it will probably take about 2 years.

    If you wanted you can take either the Abitur, Realschulabschluss, or the Hauptschulabschluss, but remember that the German education system is soooo much different to the Irish one - for example most students will be streamed in German schools after 4th grade so I would seriously consider staying in Ireland to do the Leaving Cert and then emigrate.


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  • #12
    phildenny
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75 ✭✭phildenny


    in some VECs, the VTOS centres offer the LC in one year. Must be on social welfare to go there. It's very hard work to do it in one year - really 9 months.


  • #13
    RHunce
    Registered Users Posts: 1,405 ✭✭✭RHunce


    whistlin_boy wrote: »
    If you wanted you can take either the Abitur, Realschulabschluss, or the Hauptschulabschluss, but remember that the German education system is soooo much different to the Irish one - for example most students will be streamed in German schools after 4th grade so I would seriously consider staying in Ireland to do the Leaving Cert and then emigrate.

    Pros about doing the Abi though is that most students are 19/20 when they sit it in comparison to 17/18 for the LC. That might be more suited to your age group. But then wouldn't everything be in German obviously enough?

    Just take the English exam there ;)


  • #14
    Art Teacher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 158 ✭✭Art Teacher


    There are two issues here - am I right Lilleth?

    1) move to germany
    2) get an educational qualification

    As far as I know you should be able to get basic work in Germany without a qualification.

    An educational qualification is important because the more qualifications you have the more work opportunities are open to you.

    You could get this in germany, studying part time while you are working, but if you don't speak german its difficult.

    You could do a PLC course in Ireland with a VEC. This will give you a qualification equivalent to the Leaving Cert in one year - level 4 or 5.


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