Griffith College Cork

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Griffith College Cork
Coláiste Uí Ghríofa, Corcaigh
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Established: 2005(Drinan St.), 1884(Skerrys)
Type: Private
President: Diarmuid Hegarty
Location: Cork, Ireland
Affiliations: HETAC, HECA
Website: http://www.gcc.ie

Griffith College Cork is an independent education institution based in the former Skerry’s College Cork which it merged with Griffith College in 2005, where it runs courses in Business, Law, Secretarial, Media & Journalism, Design as well as evening courses in Psychology, Office Skills, Computing and development and training Courses.

Most of the undergraduate degree courses are validate by HETAC and a number of them require application via the Irish CAO system.

The Journalism & Media postgraduate course is validated by HETAC and the Graduate Business School programmes are validated by HETAC & Nottingham Trent University.


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[edit] Courses

[edit] Accountancy

Since 2000 there is also a division of the college which provides Professional Accountancy training in Drinan St., Cork [1] for the ACCA, CIMA, IATI and CPA accountancy bodies. Griffith College has been appointed as a registered CPD/CPE provider.

Griffith College Cork, Wellington Hse., St Patricks Hill, Cork
Griffith College Cork, Wellington Hse., St Patricks Hill, Cork


[edit] Business

The college runs a variety of HETAC validated Degrees in Business Studies, Marketing and Accountancy & Finance as well as Certificates in Business Studies, Intercultural Studies and Travel & Tourism. The Graduate Business School runs a number of programmes in International Business Management.

[edit] Law

The LLB(Hons) in Irish law is jointly accredited by HETAC and Nottingham Trent University, England and this is 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, it also enables graduates who wish to qualify as solicitors to sit the Law Society of Ireland’s entrance examinations. The Professional Law school runs the highly successful Preparatory Course for the Law Society Final Entrance Examinations(FE1) in Cork delivered via Video Link. Last year the 8 out of 9 of the Law Society prizes were won by Griffith College students two of these had done the FE1 course in Griffith College Cork. In Summer 2008 he college will run the Preparatory Course for the Entrance Examination for the King's Inns which will be taught at the St. Patrick's Hill Campus in Cork. The College also runs the IILEX Diploma in Legal Studies.


[edit] Media & Journalism

The College runs an undergraduate BA in Journalism(HETAC) and a postgraduate in Higher Diploma in Journalism & Media Communications(HETAC). Higher Diploma and 2nd year Journalism students get onair experience of radio running the Student Radio station Griff FM 106.7Mhz. Also available are a short evening courses in Creative Music Technology and Writing Drama for Radio.

[edit] Design

The college runs a BTEC Higher National Diploma in Interior Architecture & Design and a Limperts Diploma in Interior Design & Decoration.

[edit] Secretarial School

The Diploma in Administration and Office Skills, trains administration and secretarial staff for employment as the college has done as Skerrys for over Sixty years.

[edit] Evening Courses

Some 700 students last year participated in evening programmes run in Griffith College Cork. There are a number of professional courses in business as well as psychology offered which are validated by ICM, SAGE, ECDL/EUCIP, JEB/EDI courses, and a number of evening Law and Media courses in Creative Music Technology and Writing Drama for Radio. Also the ACCA Certified Accounting Technician(CAT)

[edit] Short Courses

There are also a number of Short Term Day courses run at GCC.

[edit] Facilities and Services

[edit] Library

The College Library holds an extensive range of set course texts and background reading material for all college programmes GCC has access to a number of on-line databases including Lexis-Nexis, Westlaw and BSP. Also the online elearning platform moodle is used by the college, for providing course material to students.

[edit] Computing

The College’s four computer laboratories contain 70 fully networked workstations. Printing and photocopying facilities are available to students in the Openlab.

GriffFM 10.7 - Griffith College Cork, Student Radio Station
GriffFM 10.7 - Griffith College Cork, Student Radio Station

[edit] Studio & Student Radio Station

The college has a fully equipped radio station and studio, for use by the Journalism and Media students. In students from the media faculty will broadcast a radio station for a week in March. Griffith College Cork's Student radion station Griff FM 106.7 broadcasts on a Temporary Licence from from the BCI on 106.7MHz FM on 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd & 24th March 2008, it is also relayed online Griff FM 106.7Mhz.

[edit] Placement

GCC offers a Career Placement Service, as the college did as Skerrys in the past, for its students throughout the Cork and Munster area.

[edit] Graduation

Graduation ceremony has taken place for the past number of years, in St. Fin Barres Cathedral in Cork, for the academic programmes each November, these ceremonies have been attended by family and friends of graduates as well as representatives of the validation bodies (HETAC, NTU, IILEX, ICM, Limpert's Academy and ACCA) and local elected representatives. The College also presents prizes for Evening Student of the Year and HETAC Student of the Year at this ceremony. For some of the other Professional programmes such as IATI separate ceremonies take place.


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