Griffith College Cork

Infobox_University
name =Griffith College Cork
native_name =Coláiste Uí Ghríofa, Corcaigh


affiliations =HETAC, HECA
established =2000(Drinan St.), 1884(Skerrys)
type =Private
calendar =Semester
campus =Urban
former_names =Skerry’s College Cork
city =Cork
country =Ireland
coor = coord|51.903030|-8.469514|region:IE_type:edu|display=inline,title
president =Diarmuid Hegarty
website =http://www.gcc.ie
address =Griffith College Cork
Wellington House,
9/11 Patrick‘s Hill, Cork.
and
The Arch, Drinan St., Cork.
telephone =[phone]

[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 LLB(Hons) in Irish Law is jointly validated by HETAC & Nottingham Trent University. [ [http://www.ntu.ac.uk/CASQ/delegated_centres/partner_inst/43864gp.html Nottingham Trent University Designated Delegated Centres/Partner Institutions] ]

The Journalism & Media postgraduate course is validated by HETAC.

Full time undergraduate HETAC level 6, 7 & 8 courses were also validated to receive tax relief under the Irish Governments 1997 Act. [ [http://www.revenue.ie/index.htm?/revguide/sect473a.htm Tax and Duty - Type 473A Relief for fees paid for third level education, etc. (www.revenue.ie)] ] [ [http://www.revenue.ie/publications/lists/ListA06R.pdf Courses Eligible For Tax Relief Academic Year 2005-2006 www.revenue.ie] ]

Courses

Accountancy

Since 2000 there is also a division of the college which provides Professional Accountancy training in Drinan St., Cork [http://www.griffithcork.com] for the ACCA, CIMA, IATI and CPA accountancy bodies. Griffith College has been appointed as a ACCA registered CPD/CPE provider. [ [http://www.accaglobal.com/databases/cpd_providers/2323775 ACCA CPD registered course provider] ] IATI [ [http://www.iati.ie/Prospective_Students/College_Details/ Griffith College Cork - Institute of Accounting Technicians Ireland(IATI) Recognised College] ] , CIMA Certificate in Business and ACCA Certified Accounting Technician courses are also run at the St. Patricks Hill College.

The ACCA has awarded Griffith College Cork the "Platinum" accreditation - the highest recognition by the ACCA [ [http://www.accaglobal.com/learningproviders/tuitionproviders/alp/prog/ ACCA Platinum Status] ] and the college has also achieved the "goldStar Approved Educator" status from the CPA. [ [http://www.cpaireland.ie/print.aspx?groupid=121&headerid=234 CPA - Approved Educators] ]
* [http://www.griffithcork.com Accountancy]

Business

The college runs a variety of HETAC validated level 7 and 8 Degrees in Business Studies, Marketing and Accountancy & Finance as well as HETAC Certificates in Business Studies, Intercultural Studies and Travel & Tourism.
* [http://www.gcc.ie/business Business]

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 [ [http://www.kingsinns.ie/website/prospective_students/degree/schedule.htm List of King's Inns' Approved Degrees] - King's Inns' website] , it also enables graduates who wish to qualify as solicitors to sit the [http://www.lawsociety.ie 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 Certificate and Diploma in Legal Studies. [ [http://www.irishinstituteoflegalexecutives.com/aboutus.html Irish Institute of Legal Executives - Education] ]

* [http://www.gcc.ie/law Law]

Media & Journalism

Card for each year of their studies. Also available are a short evening courses in Creative Music Technology and Writing Drama for Radio.

In 2008 two new media courses will be run in the evening in Professional Video Editing with Final Cut Pro and a Certificate in Journalism. modules of this certificate are certified under HETAC's ACCS scheme.
* [http://www.gcc.ie/media Journalism & Media Communications]

Design

The college runs a BTEC Higher National Diploma in Interior Architecture & Design and a Limperts Academy Diploma in Interior Design & Decoration. [ [http://www.limpertsacademy.com/html/collegetutors/affiliatedcolleges-contact-ie.html Limperts academy Affiliated Colleges] ]
* [http://www.gcc.ie/design Design]

Music & Drama

In 2008 the Leinster School of Music & Drama a constituent School of Griffith College at Griffith College Cork are running the Higher Diploma in Arts in Music Education(HETAC) as well the Leinster Schools Assoicate and Licentiate programmes as Certificates in Music Education which are certified under HETAC’s Accumulation of Credits and Certification of Subjects scheme (ACCS).

ecretarial 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 with Pitman and City & Guilds office skills courses. The Office Skills course trains students in the use of Microsoft Office and SAGE payroll packages.
* [http://www.gcc.ie/secretarial Secretarial School]

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, City & Guilds, SAGE, ECDL/EUCIP, Pitman,JEB/EDI courses, and a number of evening Law and Media courses in Creative Music Technology and Writing Drama for Radio. Griffith College Cork as skerrys had done as well runs a number of Computing Skills courses such as Web Design, Microsoft Certified Programmes, CISCO and CompTia, and also has run electronics, networking and programming courses (e.g. Java, J2EE and C programming).The ACCA Certified Accounting Technician(CAT) is run from the Patrick's hill college.In 2008 a number of new courses will be run in the evening, Project Management, CIMA Certificate in Business, Certificate in journalism, Professional Video Editing, ECDL Update and ECDL advanced Courses.
* [http://www.gcc.ie/evening Evening Courses]

hort Courses

There are also a number of Short Term Day courses run at GCC.
* [http://www.gcc.ie/shortterm Short Term Courses]

Facilities and Services

Library

The College Library holds an extensive range of set course texts and background reading material for all college programmesGCC 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.

Computing

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

tudio & 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 ["Broadcasting Commision of Ireland" - Temporary Licence Frequencies [http://www.bci.ie/licensing/radio/temporary_services_apps.html BCI] .] on 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd & 24th March 2008, it is also relayed online [http://www.gcc.ie/grifffm Griff FM 106.7Mhz] .

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.

Graduation

Graduation ceremony has taken place for the past number of years, in [http://cathedral.cork.anglican.org 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, CPA and CIMA separate ceremonies take place.

Notes and references

External links

* [http://www.gcc.ie Griffith College Cork - official website]
* [http://www.griffithcork.com Griffith College Cork (Drinan Street) - official website]
* [http://www.gcl.ie Griffith College Limerick - official website]
* [http://www.gcd.ie Griffith College Dublin - official website]
* [http://www.gc-m.ru Griffith College in Moscow - official website]
* [http://www.hetac.ie Higher Education and Training Awards Council - official website]
* [http://www.nqai.ie/ National Qualification Authority of Ireland - official website]
* [http://www.ntu.ac.uk/ Nottingham Trent University - official website]
* [http://www.bologna.ie Bologna Process - official website]