Etudes suprieures en Irlande

Equivalencies Leaving certificate-Baccalaurat

French Baccalaureate (France)
The percentages of students attaining each level in the French Baccalaureate are compared with the percentages of students attaining the various points levels in the Irish leaving certificate and the comparison is determined on that basis. The uneven relationship between the Indicative Equivalence and French Baccalaureate scores reflects the distribution of results. It should also be noted that these are indicative and are reviewed annually.

Overall Mark

Indicative Equivalence* Equivalence en points

Moyenne gnrale 20 19 18 17 16 15 14.6 14 13 12 11 10 600 600 590 570 530 495 480 455 405 350 320 270

N.B.: It is advisable to contact the admission office directly for any student who wishes to attend Irish university. Check the entry requirements. * Based o 2011 equivalencies- This figures change every year.

Entry requirements
Minimum entry requirements English competence Points Specific entry requirements

Enseignement suprieur Le systme irlandais d'enseignement suprieur regroupe traditionnellement le secteur universitaire, le secteur technologique et les Colleges

Le nombre d'tudiants de l'enseignement suprieur est pass de 18 200 en 1965 plus de 115 500 en 2000. Education is free undergraduate third level for students from EU countries

The following academic awards can be achieved at Irish third level institutions:

Undergraduated level 6/7

Level 6 or Level 7: Higher Certificate or Bachelor Level 8: Bachelor Honours
Ordinary Bachelors Degree: Three year full time course Honours Bachelors Degree: Normally a three or four year course ( Pour passer en Honours, il faut Trinity, de bons rsultats en troisime anne de licence, le bachelor se fait en 3 ou 4 ans selon les universits)

Postgraduated level
Graduate Diploma or Higher diploma: Designed for graduates seeking a vocational reorientation - usually a one year course ( Higher diploma en un an aprs la licence, exemple pour tre professeur: Hdip in education) Masters degree (level 9): Either by research or through a taught programme. Normally one-two year(s) duration Doctorate (PhD)( level 10): Usually takes a minimum of three years of original research

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CAO Applications

Purpose of the CAO CAO processes applications to undergraduate courses in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).
Assessment of applications and Decisions on admissions are made by HEI Admissions Officers.

Timely Action
In

order to be fair to all applicants, closing dates are strict and therefore action should be taken in good time.
Do not leave everything to the last minute

Choosing Courses

Consult your Guidance Counsellor

Discuss your options with family and friends Details about courses may be found in HEI prospectuses and by consulting HEI websites.

Making an application
Applicants are encouraged to apply online. The website address is www.cao.ie Applying online is cheaper and it prevents many of the errors commonly associated with completing a paper application form.

Application Form: Part A

Part A of the Application Form is mostly self explanatory.

Information which identifies you is of the utmost importance. Carefully enter details such as your name, address, date of birth, schools attended etc.

Application Form: Part A

Your examination details must be entered with great care. Make sure you inform CAO about all relevant qualifications

Two Applications on One Form

There are two course choice lists and applicants may make up to ten course choices on each list. 10 choices may be made on the Level 8 list

10 choices may be made on the Level 7/6 list

Two Applications on One Form

It is possible to receive an offer on both lists You may then decide to accept either your Level 7/6 or your Level 8 offer. Alternatively, you might not wish to accept either offer.

Order of Preference

If you learn nothing else from this presentation let it be this... Place your course choices in genuine order of preference! To do otherwise is a grave mistake.

Application Form: Part B

Applicants who will be required to complete Part B of the application form include those who are applying on grounds of mature years, and those presenting qualifications other than Irish Leaving Certificate or FETAC(NCVA) Level 5/6.

Application Form: Part B

Detailed instructions for the completion of Part B of the application form may be found in the CAO Handbook and on the website.

Your Application Number

If you apply online your application number will appear on your Receipt of Online Application.

This number is private and it will be used in every correspondence between you and the CAO for the rest of the year. If you apply online you may change your course choices free of charge until January 31st.

The Offer Process

In the week following the release of the Leaving Certificate results CAO will post a communication to all applicants.
If you have not yet become entitled to an offer you will be sent a Statement of Application Record which you should check carefully as important information may be incorrect or missing.

The Offer Process

If you are entitled to an offer, you will be sent an offer notice. You should check that all of the details on the offer notice are correct and that there are no omissions. Offers will also be available on the CAO website. You may check for and accept offers on the website. In fact, most applicants now record acceptances online.

The Offer Process

Your offer notice may contain an offer

for a Level 8 course or a Level 7/6 course or both

If you receive two offers at the same time you may only accept one of them. If you wish to accept an offer of a place you must carry out the instructions on the offer notice before 5.15pm on the closing date for acceptance printed on the offer notice.

The Offer Process

There can be no delays at the offer/acceptance stage. Any offer not accepted by the closing date for receipt of acceptance of offers in CAO will be offered in the next round of offers.

How Places are Allocated

We will look just at the Level 7/6 courses, but exactly the same process will take place with the Level 8 courses, and at the same time. The importance of you, the applicant, placing courses in genuine order of preference will become apparent in the following slides.

How Places are Allocated

When examination results are released in August they are entered into the CAO computer. The computer checks each applicants results. For each course the applicant has applied for, the computer first determines if the applicant has the minimum entry requirements for the course.

How Places are Allocated

If the applicant meets the minimum entry requirements for the course, the applicants points are calculated for this course choice.
All eligible applicants are then placed in order of academic merit for each course that they applied for.

How Places are Allocated

The admissions officers of the Higher Education Institutions tell CAO how many places are to be offered on each course CAO then makes offers to the required number of applicants on each course starting at the top of the order of merit list and working down until enough places have been offered.

How Places are Allocated

Should some applicants decline to accept their offers these places become available in the next round of offers. They will be offered to the next applicants on the order of merit list.
This process continues until all the places on the course are filled or until all the eligible applicants on the order of merit list have been offered places.

These are the applicants for CK101 Arts in UCC.

The examination results have not yet been released, so these applicants are in no particular order. We are going to trace the progress of the applicant marked

Applicants are placed in a queue for each course they applied for, their position in the queue is determined by their points. The applicant with the highest points is placed at the top of the queue. The points achieved by the applicant in red determines his position in the queue for each course he applied to.

The applicants marked in green have enough points to be offered places. The applicant marked in red has enough points for his second preference.

The applicant in red is offered his second preference, the highest preference course that he has enough points for, and he will now dissappear from the queue in all his lower choices. Placing DN201 as his second preference meant that he would prefer to receive an offer on DN201 than on any other course except CK101 - which is his first preference.

Having been offered his second preference he must now decide to accept it or to do nothing. If he does not accept the offer the place will be offered to another applicant in the next round of offers. Regardless of whether he accepts or not he will still be considered for an offer on his first preference if a place becomes available. In the second round, one more offer was made on CK101 and our applicant is now at the top of the queue.

In the third round of offers two more offers are made on CK101 and our applicant, who was at the top of the queue, now receives an offer. He may do nothing and remain in DN201 or he may accept the offer and begin in CK101.

This applicant has made a mistake in her order of preference. She really wanted Engineering but she thought she would not get enough points, so she put Science as her first preference and Engineering as her second preference. Her position in the academic order of merit lists for each of these courses is shown below.

The yellow area shows all of the applicants that have enough points for these two courses. This applicant has enough points for both courses. She will only be offered her first preference course because, by placing it as her first preference she indicated that she wanted this course more than any other course.

The applicant disappears from the list of Engineering applicants, and from all of her lower preference choices, because she has received an offer of a place on Science which she indicated she wanted more than any other course. She may not change her mind at this stage.

Genuine Order of Preference

You do not need to guess what the points are going to be for the courses you are interested in. Simply list your courses in genuine order of preference from the highest preference 1, to the lowest preference 10. If you are entitled to an offer, you will be offered the highest preference that you are entitled to.

The End
Remember to carefully read all of the documents and instructions from CAO. Most applicants follow the simple instructions from CAO and get along just fine. If you are unclear on any matter concerning the application process, please contact us.