Ashfield College
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Ashfield College
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| Established | 1977 |
| Type | Private |
| Principal | John Kilroy |
| Students | 100 |
| Location | Main St., Templeogue, Dublin 6W, Ireland |
| Teaching Staff | 11 |
| Website | http://www.ashfieldcollege.ie |
Ashfield College is a private secondary school founded in 1977 and located in Templeogue in Dublin, Ireland.[1] The school offers preparation for the Leaving Certificate examination, both as a two year leaving certificate senior cycle, but also as a one year (Repeat Leaving Cert.) programme.[2] The school also caters for overseas students wishing to study in Ireland for the Irish leaving certificate.[3] Twenty one leaving certificate subjects are taught at the school, and the school uses e-learning facilities (such as Moodle[4]), and students can access course material, including recorded lectures online.[5] As well as the popular subjects for the leaving cert some less common leaving cert subjects of Arabic,[6] Agricultural Science and Classical Studies are also available at Ashfield.[7] The school offers a career guidance[8] service to students with advice on academic and career issues, such as advice on completing the Irish CAO[9] college application process or the UK UCAS system.
As well as being a Day School, the school also provides tuition programmes at weekends and in the evenings for students sitting the leaving certificate and Junior Certificate, also during mid-term, Christmas[10] and Easter school holidays intense revision courses are available.[11][12] Before start of the school year there is a Pre-Leaving Cert preparation course run, this is an week where students can enroll to improve their ability in a subject or subjects which they will be studying for in the leaving cert.[13][14] The college also offers grinds in some Junior Certificate subjects, such as English, Irish and Mathematics.[15]
The Christmas Intensive Revision Course for Leaving and Junior Cert. takes place in the first week of january.[16] The Easter Revision exam preparation course take place over the easter school holidays [17] Prior to the Leaving Cert exams a final revision course and exam workshop is available usually held in the last week of May.
Ashfield run specific courses for the oral Irish, French and Spanish Leaving Cert exams., these programmes include ten hours tuition as well as two mock oral examinations to prepare students for the official exam. The TV and radio presenter Róisín Ní Thomáin is part of the Irish Oral preparation team.
Adult education
Ashfield also offers a number of adult education course, such as Irish language for primary school teaching, also vocational courses in Business, Accounting, ICT, Childcare and Montessori teacher training courses, a number of FETAC courses are also provided. For a couple of years Ashfield was allied to Ormonde Business School based in Tullamore, using the name The Education Centre[18] and a number of courses were run from templeogue under the Ormonde name,[19] As Ashfield Computer Training from 1995, a number of ICT training courses were run from the school.[20] Various accounting, design and computer training programmes have been also been run from the school.[21] Ashfield College is now part of the group which includes City Colleges[22], with a number of its courses being run from the Templeogue college.[23]
References
- ^ Ashfield College Profile Night Courses Website
- ^ To repeat or not to repeat By Katherine Donnelly, Irish Independent, Wednesday August 17, 2011.
- ^ Prospectus 2011-2012 www.issuu.com
- ^ Ashfield College moodle
- ^ Ashfield College Profile Learning Pipe.
- ^ Ashfield College Arabic Leaving Cert Course www.islaminireland.com 30th August 2011.
- ^ Classical Studies at Ashfield College Dublin's Evening Classes.
- ^ Ashfield College Career Guidance
- ^ The key factors when repeating the Leaving By Chris Pillow and Gerard Kiely, Sunday Business Post, 22 August 2004.
- ^ Christmas Revision Course
- ^ Do your homework on grind options By Nicole Matthews and Emma Kennedy, Sunday Business Post, 13 August 2006.
- ^ Grinds Schools www.skoool.ie
- ^ Repeating the Leaving Cert - Philip Curry talks to Lynsey Dolan Dublin's Talking, Sunshine Radio 106.8FM, 17th August 2011.
- ^ Rate my Teachers Ashfield College ie.ratemyteachers.com.
- ^ Evening and Weekend Grinds Ashfield College Website.
- ^ Christmas Revision Programmes www.irishpressreleases.ie
- ^ Ashfield College announces Easter Exam preparation programme Posted by TalentBase News on February 21 2012 @ 23:16
- ^ Ashfield to reopen under new owner by Martha Kearns, Sunday Business Post, August 28, 2011
- ^ Ormonde Education Centre
- ^ First Ethical Hacking ATP License Issued 7Safe Course at Ashfield, 11 September 2006.
- ^ Evening Classes Profile
- ^ City Colleges www.nightcourses.com
- ^ Contact Us - Location City Colleges website
External links
- Ashfield College Website
- Ashfield College Twitter Account
- Ashfield College YouTube Channel
- Ashfield College Flickr Account
- Ashfield College Facebook Page
- Ashfield College Moodle
- Ormonde Education Centre Website (Old Website)
Coordinates: 53°17′51″N 6°18′20″W / 53.297581°N 6.305519°W
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