General Education Studies - Diploma Training Course in Basic General Education Skills

This general Education Studies course will provide you with a sound basic knowledge in Mathematics, Written English and recent Irish History. You will learn to spell, to count and to speak and write basic English. A specialist, personal tutor will guide, motivate and assist you with your studies. Once you have enrolled as a student with Kilroy’s College you will be in a “class of one”, with your own, private tutor, a qualified and experienced specialist in general education studies, through distance learning.

Course Contents

Unit 1: English

Unit 2: Everyday Maths

Unit 3: Word Study

Unit 4: Irish History

This course will develop your basic English grammar and vocabulary for both speaking and writing. It will help you with practical mathematics covering decimals, fractions, profit and loss, metric, proportion, area and simple interest. The course also covers the last 100 years of Irish History and tells how the Republic of Ireland came into being.

How distance learning works:

Continuous Assessment

At the end of each unit, an assignment is completed and sent to your tutor at the college. Each one will be promptly returned to you with helpful comments and your next study unit. Throughout your course you will receive regular feedback and encouragement from your tutor to help ensure the successful completion of your studies.

Confidentiality

All your course work and any correspondence with the college will be treated as strictly private and confidential.

Textbook

An excellent textbook, carefully chosen by our course writers to compliment this study programme, will be sent to you with your first study units. This is yours to keep for future reference.

Our Diploma

Here at Kilroy’s College, our Diploma is awarded to students based on their work throughout their course. So, on successful completion of all your written assignments, you will receive your Kilroy’s College Diploma in General Education Studies. The Future Many of our students tell us that our courses have given them the confidence to go on to further study, to begin work or to change careers. Many of those in employment have received a promotion or an increase in salary as a result of completing a Kilroy’s College course.

Advantages:

• The College is open all year, so you can start studying at any time.
• This General Education Studies course allows you the flexibility and confidentiality of studying at home without having to take time out from work or other personal commitments.
• It offers you valuable savings in time and transportation because you complete your entire course from home.
• Once enrolled, you will receive everything that you need to get started in your student study pack.