Certificate in Agriculture - Level 5

Accredited by FETAC

Course code: 5M2375

General:

This one-year full-time course aims to provide students with a quality practical agricultural education. It prepares graduates for farming, further training in farm management, farm work abroad and careers in agri-industry. The course has a high practical content, and students spend about half the day on farm practical and skills training and half the day in lectures.

Course content:

(a) Examples of modules (subjects) studied:-

Animal and Crop Production Science, Farm Business Organisation, Leadership

(b) Students choose to major in two of the following enterprise groups:

Dairy, Beef, Sheep or Tillage

(c) There is a 12 week period of practical training on a registered host farm.

Progression and career opportunities:

Advanced Certificate in Agriculture – FETAC Level 6 (Gurteen College)

Advanced Certificate in Drystock Management (Gurteen College)

Advanced Certificate in Dairy Production (Ballyhaise or Clonakilty College)

Advanced Certificate in Farm Machinery (Pallaskenry College)

Advanced Certificate in Machinery & Arable Crops (Kildalton College)

Higher Certificate in Agribusiness (Mountbellew College + Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology)

Higher Certificate in Agriculture (Cork, Dundalk & Waterford Institutes of Technology)

Travel and farm in countries such as Australia, New Zealand or America (students are encouraged to gain experience abroad)

Full-time or part-time farming

Agri-business

This certificate is part of the qualification needed for:

Early Retirement Scheme (currently suspended)

Installation Aid (currently suspended)

Higher rates of Grant Aid

Entry requirements:

Applicants must be 17 years of age on or before 1st January following their date of entry.

The Leaving Certificate is not essential but strongly recommended.

Course costs 2011-12

Residential Student (including full board) approx. €5000

Grants up to €2,400 maybe available from Teagasc (means tested)

Day Student € 2,000

Grants up to €900 may be available from Teagasc (means tested)  

(These figures include charges, deposits and Teagasc workbook costs)

Scholarships are available from some Co-Ops. Apply to your Co-Op

Non E.U. Students: fees on application

Apply to:

Gurteen College, Ballingarry, Roscrea, Co. Tipperary by June 1st 2012

Tel: 067 21282

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