I'm in 5th year in secondary school now and I have my heart set on being a social worker however as far as I know the only college course that allows you to be fully qualified is in trinity and is very hard to get into. I think you have to do two seperate courses apart from that but im not sure.does anybody know what you basically have to do after your leaving cert to become a social worker if you dont have enough points for trinity?my careers teacher doesnt describe it very well!thanks for your help!x
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If you dont get the points to do it as an undergrad in trinity then you can do it as a post grad. There are two ways to do this. 1) Do any degree (any 3 or 4 year degree) THEN do a Higher Diploma In Social Policy which can be done at UCD or UCC (1 year) http://www.ucd.ie/appsocsc/postgraduate/hdip_socpol.htm http://www.ucc.ie/en/CKA02/ THEN You do your masters of social work at UCC or UCD (2 years) or 2) Do a Social Science degree (as opposed to doing any old degree as in option 1). THEN Do the masters in UCC or UCD after (you get to leave out the Higher Diploma In Social Policy from option 1 if you have a dgree in social science)
