Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

For pupils going to Uni , what does your child's career guidance teachers actually do?

0 replies

grantediminhell · 27/01/2023 14:38

My daughter is about to sit leaving cert in Ireland.
She would like to go to UNI or a TU.
Deadline is coming up.

I emailed career guidance teacher( there are two ) to see what needed to be done at our end, she said that my daughter had nothing done yet and that we needed to do everything ourselves.

I sent in all her reports for educational psychology/ language exemptions etc when she joined the school. They don't seem to have them now.
I'm so pissed off.

I thought that the whole idea of career guidance was to guide the pupils with third level/ careers/ apprenticeships etc.

All I see is one link after another being sent out via school app.

Now ignorance is no form of defence by all accounts but not one meeting / reminder/ advice briefing about the applications system and deadline seems shit.

What exactly do they do nowadays?
Back when I was in final year ,The CG teacher did it with us and helped us gather documents and write personal statements.
When I said all of this to her, bar the ' what do you actually do!' bit, she nearly exploded.
I had heard that she was shite at her job but for FFS .....

OP posts:
New posts on this thread. Refresh page