| Ashfield College | |
|---|---|
| Established | 1977 |
| Type | Private |
| Principal | John Kilroy |
| Students | 100 |
| Location | Main St., Templeogue, Dublin 6W, Ireland |
| Teaching Staff | 11 |
| Website | http://www.ashfieldcollege.ie |
Ashfield College is a private secondary school founded in 1977 and located in Templeogue in Dublin, Ireland.[1] The school offers preparation for the Leaving Certificate examination, both as a two year leaving certificate senior cycle, but also as a one year (Repeat Leaving Cert.) programme.[2] The school also caters for overseas students wishing to study in Ireland for the Irish leaving certificate.[3] Twenty one leaving certificate subjects are taught at the school, and the school uses e-learning facilities (such as Moodle[4]), and students can access course material, including recorded lectures online.[5] As well as the popular subjects for the leaving cert some less common leaving cert subjects of Arabic,[6] Agricultural Science and Classical Studies are also available at Ashfield.[7] The school offers a career guidance[8] service to students with advice on academic and career issues, such as advice on completing the Irish CAO[9] college application process or the UK UCAS system.
As well as being a Day School, the school also provides tuition programmes at weekends and in the evenings for students sitting the leaving certificate and Junior Certificate, also during mid-term, Christmas[10] and Easter school holidays intense revision courses are available.[11][12] Before start of the school year there is a Pre-Leaving Cert preparation course run, this is an week where students can enroll to improve their ability in a subject or subjects which they will be studying for in the leaving cert.[13][14] The college also offers grinds in some Junior Certificate subjects, such as English, Irish and Mathematics.[15]
The Christmas Intensive Revision Course for Leaving and Junior Cert. takes place in the first week of january.[16]
Ashfield also offers a number of adult education course, such as Irish language for primary school teaching, also vocational courses in Business, Accounting, ICT, Childcare and Montessori teacher training courses, a number of FETAC courses are also provided. For a couple of years Ashfield was allied to Ormonde Business School based in Tullamore, using the name The Education Centre[17] and a number of courses were run from templeogue under the Ormonde name,[18] As Ashfield Computer Training from 1995, a number of ICT training courses were run from the school.[19] Various accounting, design and computer training programmes have been also been run from the school.[20] Ashfield College is now part of the group which includes City Colleges[21], with a number of its courses being run from the Templeogue college.[22]