All along she was choosing not to do a language, which was fine by us, but now we are hearing that a third language is a requirement for alot of colleges.
I regret not having a European language regularly, but reaslitically the way languages are taught in Ireland I would not have come out of the Leaving Cert speaking the language, I'd come out of it with a mediocre result in a subject I had to dedicate significant time to, to the detriment of others.
The former Dean of Engineering in UCD once told me to never confuse education with qualification. He said qualification was what you did for a few years whereas education was what you did all your life. Nice man.Education is good, and learning languages is good even if it provides no practical benefit. I wouldn't remove it from the curriculum, but they are not for everyone.
She loves art and again quite good but I am aware of friends growing up who spent an awful lot of time at it. I assume it would be a requirement for architecture.
It's not - in fact art has very little relation to architecture.
Irish isn't required in TU Dublin (Bolton Street) which, according to a friend who studied the subject in UCD, is the best school of Architecture in Ireland.It's not - in fact art has very little relation to architecture. Art might be better suited to Design. Architecture requirements for UCD are : "O6/H7 in English, Irish, Mathematics, a third language and two other recognised subjects" (https://www.myucd.ie/courses/architecture/architecture/). So art would qualify as one of the two other subjects in terms of calculating points but it is not a requried subject for Architecture. But a third language is a requirement (this is the critical point for your kid probably)
That section of the UCD website will list the requriements for any course (all the other colleges haev similar but to be honest, requriements are quite similar)
I agree with the points above - the kid will have to do Maths English & Irish. They should ideally have a science / technical subject and a language if they want to keep all options open. But being able to do subjects that they like is a big benefit so definnitely try to include at least a couple of subjects they really like.
The other thing to remember is that Engineering (and other sciences) don't require a language but they do require a "laboratory science" (which doesn't include technical subjects like material science or technical drawing). This means that if they want to keep open both Archictecture and Engineering, they will need to plan to do a science and a language for the Leaving Cert.
I'm not sure if any of this is helping - it sounds complicated but I find if you work back from potential college courses it can clarify i.e. If I need a language to apply to college I will need to do a language for the Leaving Cert. That means I must do a language for the Junior Cert OR I plan to take one up before the LC
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