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GARDAÍ HAVE THANKED the public for their assistance in locating Remigijus Nutautas who had gone missing from Celbridge.
The 55-year-old had last been seen at Whitethorn Grove in Celbridge yesterday afternoon and was reported missing.
Remigijus has limited mobility due to a long term injury and doesn’t speak English.
This morning, gardaí said the man had been located safe and well.
There’s a lesson that people seem to learn only after they have done their Leaving Cert, which for some reason the students themselves are not informed of. They should be informed as maybe it would save on a lot of the stress, mental health issues and indirect physical health issues.
It’s quite simple. For virtually every course out there in Ireland, that you could possibly desire to do, there is an alternative route into it. Whether it is being a doctor, teacher, lawyer, electrician or personal trainer, you will get there if you want to get there. Getting the points in the Leaving Cert Rat Race is just one method of getting into the course of your choice. It may take longer by another route. But if you want it, it will be way more than worth it.
Problem is it generally takes longer and that avenue isn’t there for all courses. Most students are vaguely aware the alternative route but it isn’t much comfort. the thought of spending a year or more extra getting where you want to go is not much consolation to the majority of 18 year olds.
I totally agree with your comment the points system is a ridiculous method for determining a students academic capabilities. All it is a glorified memory test with a few trick questions. If we relied on a points system 100 years ago to gain entry to colleges. There’d probably be no theory of relativity!! The education system sucks in Ireland it’s designed to demean the lower classes and reward privileged classes. This Richard Murphy is a typical scare mongering idiot most of the comments he’s made are well known facts about how fu€ked the system is. Tell us something new. His suggestions, I’ll take one example, law you’d be better off doing it in the UK anyway much better demand for barristers in London. Also I’d take the Bar in New York or Boston If I was really ambitious as the opportunity in the US is greater in many different legal specialities and you don’t have to wait for someone to die as you do here. Go and have a chat with someone who knows what the fu€k his talking about like down in the law library ie. John Glesson ? or any non disgraced solicitor.
Take a look at this site link below. And pass it on. Did see no mention of it in the article b
http://www.eunicas.ie/index.php/studying-abroad/studying-abroad.html
The CAO is a type of cull system which one would have to admit is like a lottery system gaining a place in college. Students who fail to gain access to a course of there choice possibly end up repeating the leaving cert which is a total waste of time, only possibly becoming more dissolution’d and never going to college at all which is a huge loss to both the people of Ireland and society. What might they have archived. I know too many people where this is the case.
Students need to wake up and relies they are being conned. There first choice should be to go to college abroad in Europe as the access to medicine engineering etc in places like Holland / Germany and other countries where it is taught in English and the entry requirements is more realistic and costs a lot less. Also the qualification often has more value especially engineering degree from a German university.
With the CAO as a second choice maybe colleges here will begin to relies they have a problem which they already have. Check the statistics on attendances in engineering in colleges in Ireland and in other areas. There is a growing shortage of capable skilled people in many areas. We turn out loads of qualified university graduates alright but most are laking something; natural ability! Maybe. There qualified but a lot of them as dumb as fu€k and usually takes four years further training before you could release them on a customer and that’s if they stay with you that long.
Take a look at this site link below. And pass it on. Did see no mention of it in the article by Richard Murphy
Bit late to be worrying now.
Whats do is done.
What’s for you won’t pass you.
Your health is your wealth.
Best of luck to everyone getting their results….
Good luck to the teachers in a sweat this week too ; )
Good luck to my daughter & all of the students getting their results. There is no point in worrying now, what is done is done. It will all come good in the end.
If the press didn’t hype it up as they do the kids would be fine. Leave them alone with your opinions.
Exactly. The writer gives the advice “avoid hype” but the entire article is itself hyping up the LC results, as well as raising the profile of Griffith College at what is a crucial time of the year for its business. Is it my imagination or is coverage of the LC results starting earlier and earlier? I’ve nothing against covering the event once it has occurred but this build-up tells us nothing that we didn’t know.
Good luck to me lol
Look, I did my Leaving Cert year and years ago.I remember being as nervous as hell. Bad stomach etc. Its as big a deal as you want to make it. Now I cant even remember what I passed in, my marks, virtually nothing about it. It didnt help me one bit getting a job as I moved to the UK where I was judged on what I could actually do and not on a piece of paper. In 20 years time you will look back and realise it was not as big a deal as you thought, relax, chill and do your best!
I wouldn’t rely on the courses that CAO dont fill that have places in August and September because they’re usually the same type of course in the back arse of nowhere
Keep out of the black and into the red.
Nothing in this game for two in a bed!
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