Nordie Students

[marty34]

I see C&P Ballycastle are banning mobile phones.

Brilliant idea, should be role out in every school.

Excellent move. Hope that's the start of it now.

[BigGreenField]

I see C&P Ballycastle are banning mobile phones.

Brilliant idea, should be role out in every school.

Excellent move. Hope that's the start of it now.

Fantastic, some schools have used mobiles to get round budget cuts with kids accessing textbooks on their phones so the school Doesn't buy them  - that needs to stop.

[Milltown Row2]

Mobile phones are banned in most schools, if brought out in class they are taken off them and retrieved at the end of the day, the problem was it wasn't enforced

[Armagh18]

Mobile phones are banned in most schools, if brought out in class they are taken off them and retrieved at the end of the day, the problem was it wasn't enforced

Yeah thats the rule in most schools as far as I know, alright to have the phone with you but if you've it out in class it's lifted

[johnnycool]

Was there not some pouch or other that the kids had to put their phone in.

A faraday cage esque device to block RF signals.

[GTP]

Phone free pilot not sure it is easier or less costly than taking the phone off someone and making thm get it back at the end of the day. Maybe get the parents or guardians in to retrieve the phone if they get it confiscated more than once.

[tbrick18]

Didn't read the article but a friend of mine his daughter wanted to go to Trinity or UCD not sure which one, but he said that she could only get in if there was any spaces available after the locals took theirs..

Purely anecdotal, just in case   

Not true
Son went to trinity so can speak from experience
Daughter applied for ucd  and was also accepted but ended up at queens as mates didn't go to Dublin
Reality for the good degrees  in ucd/ trinity you need 4  a levels but tbf you need a serious high number of points in the south also .

Should nationalist politicians be looking at stuff like that and making it more accessible to students from the six counties to study at southern universities?  That's a simple, practical step they could try to do.


And on that, I know a lad who's son was trying to get registered as a teacher in the south. He wanted to live in Dublin.  Qualified in St. Mary's, Belfast but the hassle and grief he was put through to get registered with the Teaching Council was unreal. He said it'd be easier to get registered if you were from Australia.


He said the grilling and paperwork he had to put in was crazy. Ironic thing is, he said, is that there's a severe shortage of teachers in the south, especially in Dublin and commuter belt areas on the eastern seaboard.

Again, this is an area tht nationalist politicans should be working on - making it more accessible to northerners.

One of my kids wants to go into teaching but has no idea how/where to apply in the south. There are a very small number of teaching places here each year so it would make sense to apply elsewhere to be in with a chance, most seem to go to England - which she doesn't want to do.
Can anyone point me in the direction of where to look for courses in ROI uni? Or do you have to go to each Uni site and search all of them individually?
The school doesn't seem to know!

[tbrick18]

Mobile phones are banned in most schools, if brought out in class they are taken off them and retrieved at the end of the day, the problem was it wasn't enforced

Yeah thats the rule in most schools as far as I know, alright to have the phone with you but if you've it out in class it's lifted

Its the rule in my kids school, but the school also uses Google classroom for a lot of stuff and the kids need their phone in the room to do that.
The school has also blocked internet access to non-education auth devices - but, kids find a way. They all use VPN's and get onto the school wifi! Have to admire that.

On the one hand the school says no phones, on the other they tell the kids they need the phone in class. Doesn't sit well with me.

[befair]

For high-demand courses like medicine, 4 A-levels are now required to reach the required points level. This is unfair, 3 A-levels should be sufficient. I went to UCD, 2 of my kids to trinity, 1 to England; as observed above the accomodation costs vs course fees balance out. Making it easier for NI students to attend ROI is definitely something politicians should be advocating.

[clonian]

For high-demand courses like medicine, 4 A-levels are now required to reach the required points level. This is unfair, 3 A-levels should be sufficient. I went to UCD, 2 of my kids to trinity, 1 to England; as observed above the accomodation costs vs course fees balance out. Making it easier for NI students to attend ROI is definitely something politicians should be advocating.

There's quite few students around here (south Down & Armagh) going to DKIT now. It's more construction & engineering courses especially the apprenticeship routes. Easy to access without accommodation needed for most of them.

[befair]

For high-demand courses like medicine, 4 A-levels are now required to reach the required points level. This is unfair, 3 A-levels should be sufficient. I went to UCD, 2 of my kids to trinity, 1 to England; as observed above the accomodation costs vs course fees balance out. Making it easier for NI students to attend ROI is definitely something politicians should be advocating.

There's quite few students around here (south Down & Armagh) going to DKIT now. It's more construction & engineering courses especially the apprenticeship routes. Easy to access without accommodation needed for most of them.

Schools should do better at explaining this option

[tonto1888]

Didn't read the article but a friend of mine his daughter wanted to go to Trinity or UCD not sure which one, but he said that she could only get in if there was any spaces available after the locals took theirs..

Purely anecdotal, just in case   

Not true
Son went to trinity so can speak from experience
Daughter applied for ucd  and was also accepted but ended up at queens as mates didn't go to Dublin
Reality for the good degrees  in ucd/ trinity you need 4  a levels but tbf you need a serious high number of points in the south also .

Should nationalist politicians be looking at stuff like that and making it more accessible to students from the six counties to study at southern universities?  That's a simple, practical step they could try to do.


And on that, I know a lad who's son was trying to get registered as a teacher in the south. He wanted to live in Dublin.  Qualified in St. Mary's, Belfast but the hassle and grief he was put through to get registered with the Teaching Council was unreal. He said it'd be easier to get registered if you were from Australia.


He said the grilling and paperwork he had to put in was crazy. Ironic thing is, he said, is that there's a severe shortage of teachers in the south, especially in Dublin and commuter belt areas on the eastern seaboard.

Again, this is an area tht nationalist politicans should be working on - making it more accessible to northerners.

One of my kids wants to go into teaching but has no idea how/where to apply in the south. There are a very small number of teaching places here each year so it would make sense to apply elsewhere to be in with a chance, most seem to go to England - which she doesn't want to do.
Can anyone point me in the direction of where to look for courses in ROI uni? Or do you have to go to each Uni site and search all of them individually?
The school doesn't seem to know!

will they need some level of Irish for that?

[tbrick18]

Didn't read the article but a friend of mine his daughter wanted to go to Trinity or UCD not sure which one, but he said that she could only get in if there was any spaces available after the locals took theirs..

Purely anecdotal, just in case   

Not true
Son went to trinity so can speak from experience
Daughter applied for ucd  and was also accepted but ended up at queens as mates didn't go to Dublin
Reality for the good degrees  in ucd/ trinity you need 4  a levels but tbf you need a serious high number of points in the south also .

Should nationalist politicians be looking at stuff like that and making it more accessible to students from the six counties to study at southern universities?  That's a simple, practical step they could try to do.


And on that, I know a lad who's son was trying to get registered as a teacher in the south. He wanted to live in Dublin.  Qualified in St. Mary's, Belfast but the hassle and grief he was put through to get registered with the Teaching Council was unreal. He said it'd be easier to get registered if you were from Australia.


He said the grilling and paperwork he had to put in was crazy. Ironic thing is, he said, is that there's a severe shortage of teachers in the south, especially in Dublin and commuter belt areas on the eastern seaboard.

Again, this is an area tht nationalist politicans should be working on - making it more accessible to northerners.

One of my kids wants to go into teaching but has no idea how/where to apply in the south. There are a very small number of teaching places here each year so it would make sense to apply elsewhere to be in with a chance, most seem to go to England - which she doesn't want to do.
Can anyone point me in the direction of where to look for courses in ROI uni? Or do you have to go to each Uni site and search all of them individually?
The school doesn't seem to know!

will they need some level of Irish for that?

I thought that had changed - where you only need Irish (or a language) if going into some of the language based degrees?