Joint Access Foundation Course Graduation

NUI Galway and GMIT celebrated the Joint Access Foundation Course Graduation evening last Thursday. Over 80 students received their Certificates on the night. Many of these will now go on to study full-time and part-time degrees in either NUI Galway or GMIT. “The Foundation Courses are part-time, evening courses and give students a taster of a selection of subjects including, maths, physics, biology, chemistry, biology and business”, said Trish Hoare, Mature Students Officer at NUI Galway. “ The students are prepared academically in advance of degrees in these areas, with some students never having the opportunity of gaining second level qualifications prior to these courses”, she also said.

Part-time courses for Prospective Mature Students

• Access Course For Mature Persons
• Foundation Course Science and Engineering
• Foundation Course in Business/Commerce

Access Course For Mature Persons

NUI Galway provides an Access Programme for people from backgrounds of "socio-economic disadvantage". The programme includes an Access course for Mature Applicants (over 22 years on January 1st of year of entry) who, for financial, or related reasons were unable to proceed to Higher Education.

The Access course for Mature Applicants is provided at several centres including NUI Galway, Sligo, Clifden, and Ballinasloe. Participants who successfully complete an Access course will be eligible to apply for direct entry to full-time University Degree courses in the Colleges of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies, Business, Public Policy and Law, Science and Engineering and Informatics.

    Contact: Access Office        Telephone: (091) 493553  
       Website: www.nuigalway.ie/access

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Foundation Course Science and Engineering and Technology-Now Full

NUI Galway in co-operation with GMIT organises courses for mature applicants from any background.

This intensive part-time course is for Mature Applicants interested in applying for entry to full-time Science, Engineering and I.T. courses at either GMIT or NUI Galway and runs early October, two nights per week and all day Saturday (one per month). The duration of the course is 25 weeks. The course includes only Science and Mathematics, and is intended for anybody wishing to study Science, Engineering or I.T. degrees in 2012.

Please note this course is now full. Information Session is in the Lecture Theatre Aras Ui Chathail at 11am Saturday 1st of October. You should all have received a text if you have applied. If you cannot attend please email me for timetable and further instructions. Open Day is from 10am to 3pm so come along and meet the stands!

Contact: Trish Hoare, Mature Students Officer, NUI Galway 
 E-mail:    maturestudentsnuigalway.ie

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Foundation Course in Business/Commerce-Now Full

This intensive part-time course is for mature applicants interested in applying for entry to full-time or part-time business courses at either GMIT or NUI Galway and runs early October, two nights per week and all day Saturday. The duration of the course is 25 weeks.  The course includes Mathematics, Accountancy and Economics.

Information Session is in the View, Bailey Allen Hall, Aras na Mac Leinn, at 11am Friday 30th of September. You should all have received a text if you have applied. If you cannot attend please email me for timetable and further instructions. Open Day is from 11am to 3pm so come along and meet the stands!

 Contact: Trish Hoare, Mature Students Officer, NUI Galway 
 E-mail: maturestudentsnuigalway.ie

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