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Monaghan Institute link with St. Angela’s College, Sligo

Are you interested in becoming a Home Economics Teacher? If so, then read on!

Monaghan Institute is involved in an Access to Post Primary Teaching Programme (APT) with St Angela’s College, Sligo.

St Angela’s has developed a QQI – FET link with Monaghan Institute, to give Further Education students a direct entry route into the following Bachelor of Arts/Professional Masters in Education (BAPME) Initial Teacher Education (ITE) programmes which are available through the APT Project at St. Angela’s:

  • AS001–Home Economics & Biology Second Level Teaching
  • AS002–Home Economics & Religious Education Second Level Teaching
  • AS003–Home Economics & Irish Second Level Teaching

How do you get involved?
A total of 10 places have been reserved for students who are interested in participating. If you’d like to get involved, you must complete a variety of in-reach and outreach activities throughout the academic year, achieve a QQI-FET qualification with 8 distinctions in the year prior to entering St. Angela’s, and apply for entry into one of St. Angela’s Initial Teacher Education (ITE) programmes through the CAO with a start date of September 2019.

What QQI courses are approved?

Find out more
Read the APT Brochure
Read the Student Briefing Document
For more information on St. Angela’s ITE programmes, please click here  & see the “Undergraduate” section

If you have specific questions about the APT Project, please contact: 

Dr Andrea Lynch
Access to Post-Primary Teaching (APT) Project
School of Education, National University of Ireland Galway
Telephone: 087-112-9868
Email: andrea.lynch@nuigalway.ie