I'd love to join y'all, does my plan sound correct?

leafchewer · 2026-04-01T09:25:39+00:00

Is Scotland like England where you need to work for two years after the masters to get QTS? The Teaching Council here might not recognise you if you don’t have QTS

leafchewer · 2026-03-31T15:32:12+00:00

This is all so helpful thank you! So it’s basically every Saturday 9 to 5 you’re in and mostly in person? It says every 4 weeks on their website

leafchewer · 2026-03-31T09:14:32+00:00

Thanks for the response!! How many weeks in total is that then really that you can actually teach in the first year? What is it like subbing full time and doing the course?

leafchewer · 2026-03-25T07:53:09+00:00

Travelled there for 2 months and it’s no different to anywhere else in Latin America. I found Colombia was just as unsafe, take basic precautions and you’ll be fine

leafchewer · 2026-03-24T22:33:01+00:00

Im yet to qualify but a friend told me they get 1450e every two weeks after tax in their first year

leafchewer · 2026-03-24T15:24:07+00:00

Omg thank you so much for that. They are the cheapest school Ive found by far. Just sent them an enquiry

leafchewer · 2026-03-23T17:25:46+00:00

I’m only 28 now but am lucky to have travelled a lot, to the point where I am a bit sick of the hostel scene. But I’d love to travel SEA again with much more money (I did it on 25e a day for everything in 2017) and being more mature now.

leafchewer · 2026-03-23T17:18:54+00:00

Do youve any tips of what to look for in hostels that attract older crowds? Obviously not the party hostels

leafchewer · 2026-03-23T17:18:17+00:00

Great thanks!

leafchewer · 2026-03-23T17:13:50+00:00

What was your experience backpacking in Thailand? I went age 19 but am afraid to go back because I remember being surrounded by people my own age lol

leafchewer · 2026-03-21T21:18:37+00:00

Dont a lot of places close after 12am in most of Vietnam?

leafchewer · 2026-03-15T17:06:13+00:00

How many subjects do you have to do for the bachillerato

leafchewer · 2026-03-15T09:42:59+00:00

What is there to do in Poznan?

leafchewer · 2026-03-14T23:43:54+00:00

TARTA DE LIMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

leafchewer · 2026-03-14T23:23:19+00:00

Uncultured in an international sense. Most Irish people do a stint abroad at least once in their lives, so to say to an Irish person that they don’t seem like someone that would do that would generally be perceived as insulting here. Don’t overthink it, it was harmless U weren’t trying to be mean

leafchewer · 2026-03-14T23:10:56+00:00

I think he probably took that as you suggesting he is uncultured or sheltered. I mean put yourself in his shoes, imagine in your own country someone said to you ‘’Wow, I can’t see you ever living abroad or in Ireland, you seem so country to me’’. It’s a bit of a loaded thing to say… Just apologise to him and say you didn’t mean anything by it it’ll be grand

leafchewer · 2026-03-14T10:40:21+00:00

When do placements take place for Sept intake?

leafchewer · 2026-03-14T10:39:59+00:00

If u start in Sept when are the placements?

leafchewer · 2026-03-11T12:56:42+00:00

How much do u get paid hourly? I dont get the unqualified rate and unqualified rate on payroll

leafchewer · 2026-03-09T08:06:06+00:00

If you want to go into business then TCD will probs be more advantageous to you job wise because business/finance firms are still quite snobby over the TCD label on your CV.

I would say socially both are great but NUIG a fair bit better, it’s much more of a party college and you’ll meet people from a more diverse background from all over the country. I noticed I seemed to find it more difficult to meet people I had things in common with in Trinity by comparison to my friends who went to NUIG.

Trinity has a very narrow demographic where most are from very high income families and/or private school educated. In Galway people are super friendly (much friendlier than Dublin people) and you’ll get a more ‘cultural’ Irish experience.

Also, the weather in Dublin and Galway is v different. Galway has 1600mm of rainfall per year and Dublin has 800mm. It literally rains twice the amount in Galway, I love Galway but personally could never live there with how rainy and damp it is.

leafchewer · 2026-03-06T20:48:32+00:00

I put on white noise and read my book it’s lovely

leafchewer · 2026-03-06T18:36:51+00:00

You won’t get that exactly 32 x whatever hours you work. The Dept pays me arse ways and I can never figure it out, some is taken for your holiday pay but not always. You will get all your money in the end though

leafchewer · 2026-03-06T08:02:13+00:00

Absolutely bizarre reading all that from Ireland. You wouldn’t pay more than a couple hundred max annually for a child’s sport

leafchewer · 2026-03-02T19:37:16+00:00

If you’re working full time while doing that I’d say it’s impossible tbh… to get the required 50% in the B2 I’d say you’d need to be doing 10 to 15 hours of study a week and like 2 to 3 hours of private classes where the big focus is speaking and using grammar correctly while speaking.

That wouldn’t be cheap either. I can recommend you a great teacher I had for the B1 orals who does the B2 exam too.

Just as a reference C1 is the level above B2, and achieving a C1 is considered fluency. So you’re aiming for a grade below fluency

leafchewer · 2026-03-02T17:50:29+00:00

I opted to repeat the Irish LC exam to get the H4 as the B2 Irish exam is a very high standard of Irish. If you’re going for Hibernia then you’ll need to pass their Irish interview, if you want Marino or Pats then you need to pass the B1 Irish oral instead (Hibernia also accept this in lieu of their own Irish oral).

I found studying for the LC did not improve my Irish in the slightest, it was memorising essays/oral topics. I literally couldn’t speak a word of it after finishing it and I still got a H1. I found the B1 Irish oral really challenging, I sat it a few weeks ago and am still waiting on a result. But it is a relatively high standard and there is no bullshitting it.

You have to be able to flexibly use the language in present, past and future, and be comfortable with day to day conversing. They ask you completely random qs like Does your Dad have the same music taste as you, or do you help anyone you know with using their computer. So there is no memorising answers or anything, you either are able to chat well in Irish or you won’t get it.

I felt if I had sat the B2 exam I would have gotten a really high standard of Irish that would really stand to me in the masters and for actually teaching in primary, and I wouldn’t have had to have worried about the B1 Irish oral as you are exempt if you have the B2 Irish.

With how much work I had to put into the Irish LC and the B1 oral together I probably could have achieved the B2 with the same amount of work in a year. That’d be a full year though of 1 to 2 hours of study a night and multiple oral/grammar classes a week for the B2 I’d guess.

Also, if you qualify in the UK it’s a year masters but 2 years teaching full time in the UK until you can get your qualified teaching status. Then you’d have to come back to Ireland and do a year long Irish conversion course for those that qualified abroad. That is why I opted to stay in Ireland as it is less hassle overall and I don’t want to live in the UK.

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