Griffith College Dublin
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| Established | 1974 |
| President | Diarmuid Hegarty |
| Location | Dublin, Ireland |
| Address | South Circular Road Dublin 8 |
| Telephone | +353-1-415 0400 |
| Affiliations | HETAC |
| Website | http://www.gcd.ie |
Griffith College Dublin (GCD) is a private college located on South Circular Road in Dublin, Ireland. The college was established in 1974 and as of 2005 has 8,500 students studying on a full and part-time basis. The college runs full time courses in design, business, journalism, law, computing and has a range of part time courses available. The college offers professional accountancy programmes for ACCA, ACA, CPA and IATI. The college is owned by Mr Diarmuid Hegarty who purchased the former Griffith Barracks premises from the government in 1992 at a cost of IR£2,000,000. Since then it has grown to become Ireland's largest private college.
Many of the undergraduate degrees require application via the Central Applications Office application system. Most of the college's undergraduate and postgraduate courses are accredited by the Higher Education and Training Awards Council, some of its professional law courses are accredited by Nottingham Trent University, England and these are recognised by the King's Inns for entry to its Degree of Barrister-at-Law which is a professional qualification for practice at the bar.
The Griffith College Campus is also the home of the Leinster School of Music & Drama, established in 1904. The Leinster School offer theory classes in Music & Drama to groups and individuals subject to availability. The Leinster School is also an examining body and have a Theory Examinations Syllabus with levels from Preparatory to Grade 8. The application form and all syllabuses are available on their website.
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[edit] Academic
Griffith College operates a semesterized academic year, with two semesters from September to January and January to June.
The College is divide into a number of faculties:
- The School of Professional Accountancy
- Business
- Law
- Computing Science
- Journalism & Media Communications
- Design
- Graduate Business School
- The Professional Law School
Griffith College also provides a number of training courses in CAD(City & guilds), HRM(ICM), Psychology(ICM), Supply Chain Management(IIPMM) and other courses in Administration and Office Skills, JEB Teachers Diploma and ECDL/EUCIP.
The Professional Law School runs courses for the examinations for entry to the Law Society of Ireland, King's Inns, New York State Board of Law Examiners and the California State Bar Association.
[edit] Student activities
[edit] The Students' Union
The Students' Union's is the representative body for all Griffith College students. Comprising of Students Union President elected annually by the college students, assisted by a Sports, Welfare and Societies officer and a welfare officer. There is also a Students Liaison Officer who assists students settling into college.
[edit] Current President
Shane McCrann
Past Presidents:
2005/06 Killian Faughnan
2004/05 Shane McDonell
2003/04 Shauna Tilley & Stephen Stokes
2002/03 Paul Walsh
2001/02 Elaine Ready
Sports & Societies
2006/07 Tomas Moore & Aimee Sullivan
2005/06 Michael O'Riordan
2004/05 Iain O'Connor
2003/04 Stephen Stokes
2002/03 Philip Connor
2001/02 Paul Walsh
Entertainment
2005/06 Killian Faughnan
2004/05 Shane McDonell
2003/04 Shauna Tilley
2002/03 Keith Gavaghan
Welfare
2006/07 Ciara White
2001/02 Elaine Ready
[edit] Clubs & Societies
There are a variety of clubs and societies in the college including:- Rugby, Chess, Soccer, Gaelic Football, Debating, Poker, Pool, Paintball, Basketball, Visual Communication & Art, and Toastmasters.
[edit] GriffFM
During the spring students from the Journalism & Media Faculty operate a radio station GriffFm. The radio station is licenced by the BCI to broadcast for a couple of weeks, this gives students real experience to demonstrate their journalistic, presentation, interviewing and radio production skills. The station broadcasts on 94.3 FM and is also relayed online on the college website. GriffFM is broadcasting from the 29th of January to the 11th of February 2007.
[edit] College & Student Publications
There are a number of college publications in GCD, the most prominent of which is the student union magazine Griffiti. It is published every month of the academic year, and contains articles and stories which focus on general news, opinion and goings-on around the campus. Students of all disciplines are free to submit articles. The magazine's management dictates that the editor changes every academic year. Launched in 2004 the publication is currently being presided over by its fourth editor Celia Zwahlen.
Editors
Nicola Reddy - Issue 1. (September 04)
Cian Hallinan - Issues 2 - 5. (October 04 - May 05)
John McSweeney - Issues 6 - 12. (August 05 - May 06)
Celia Zwahlen - Issue 13 - Present. (August 06 - Present)
The Circular is the newspaper published by Journalism students, where examples of student work get published. The paper has won the award for Small College Publication of the Year at the annual Oxygen Student Media (sMedia) Awards for the last two years. The Griff is another journalism student publication.
Glór uí Ghríofa (The Voice of Griffith) is the official college newsletter outlining college news, developments and campus life.
[edit] Facilities & Services
The college facilities include, Library, Common room, Computer Laboratories (248 workstations across 10 labs), CAD Lab, Photography Lab, Fitness Room, Sound Studios, Shop and Bar & Restaurant. The college also offers students a career advice service there is also a professional counsellor off campus providing an advice and counselling for personal and non academic issues. Wireless (WiFi 802.11g) access to the college network is also available for laptop users.
[edit] Library & Information Services
The College Library provides research and study facilities to students, the library holds an extensive range of set course texts and background reading material for all college programmes. Library texts are easily accessed via the online Library catalogue. As well as the large range of up to date texts we have thousands of online books. Online books are a quick way to access the most up to date computing references. Texts not held on site can be ordered through our inter-library loans service. Students also have access to over 15,000 journals, a growing catalogue of multi-media information resources, including CDs, CD-ROMS, VHS, DVD and music scores, and a comprehensive array of on-line databases including BSP, ABI-Inform, Westlaw, Lexis-Nexis, Infotrac, the ACM.Digital Library and Safari Tech Books online. Online material is avialable through moodle, to use moodle students must be fully registered students of the college.
[edit] Expansion
Griffith College has expanded beyond its base in Dublin.
Having previously established its Professional Accountancy Programmes in Cork in 2000 offering training in ACCA, CIMA, CPA and IATI, Griffith College acquired Skerry’s College Cork in 2005, the college runs a variety of full and part time courses in Business, Law, Media & Communications, Design, Secretarial and Office skills
In 2006 Griffith College opens in Limerick with the acquisition of the Mid West Business Institute.
There are also two campuses outside Ireland, in Karachi and Moscow respectively, the Moscow campus provides accountancy training.
[edit] External links
- Griffith College Dublin - official website
- Griffith College Cork - official website
- Griffith College Limerick - official website
