Garda Vetting Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) offers a number of educational and training courses that require students to undertake placements, with external agencies, which will bring them into contact with children and vulnerable adults and in which they will assume positions of trust. GMIT requires applicants for the courses listed below (this list is subject to review as deemed necessary) to be Garda vetted before they fully complete their registration as students of the Institute. • BEd (Honours) Art, Design and Graphics • BSc (Honours) in Education (Design Graphics and Construction)
• BSc (Honours) in General Nursing • BSc (Honours) in Psychiatric Nursing • BA (Honours) in Applied Social Care • BA in Applied Social Care • BA (Honours) in Early Childhood Education and Care • BA in Early Childhood Education and Care • HC in Early Childhood Education and Care • BA (Honours) in Community Development and Youth Work • BA in Community Development and Youth Work
• BSc (Honours) in Medical Science • BA (Honours) in Outdoor Education • BA in Outdoor Education and Leisure • BA (Ordinary) in Outdoor Education and Leisure with Geography • Bsc (Honours) in Sport and Exercise Science Prior to undertaking work placements, the following courses may also require Garda Vetting: • BSc (Honours) in Physics & Instrumentation • BSc in Physics & Instrumentation • BSc (Honours) Public Health Nutrition • BSc in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Science • BSc (Honours) in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Science • BSc (Honours) in Forensic Science and Analysis • BSc in Applied Biology and Biopharmaceutical Science • BSc (Honours) in Applied Biology and Biopharmaceutical Science Offers of places on these designated courses will be provisional and contingent on the applicant’s satisfactory completion of GMIT’s Garda vetting procedure. In some instances, re-vetting may be required prior to the commencement of the placement. Students from other courses can be vetted prior to commencing their work placement if their speci fi c work placement requires Garda vetting. Any student who acquires a relevant conviction during any of the above courses will be subject to consideration in accordance with the GMIT’s Garda vetting policy available at https://www.gmit.ie/sites/default/ fi les/public/general/docs/garda-vetting- student-policy-updated-july-2020.pdf
QQI FET CAS Scoring The national quali fi cation system across further education and training (FET) in Ireland is known as the ‘Common Awards System’ or CAS. The scoring system applies where all the requirements for the major award are met, i.e. when the speci fi ed component awards have been achieved, totalling 120 credits. (To calculate your own score, you must know the credit value of your component awards.) For more information on scoring please go to www.cao.ie A QQI FET Major award may be accumulated over more than one academic year. QQI FET awards achieved before the introduction of CAS, will be referenced to and scored using the CAS scoring. Full details of the CAS, courses and progression to the Higher Education Links Scheme are available on the QQI website (www.qqi.ie). Full details of the QQI FET awards Higher Education Links Scheme (HELS) Entry Requirements and Scoring systems are also available on www.cao.ie. For further information, please contact the Admissions Of fi cer, Of fi ce of Academic Affairs, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, Dublin Road, Galway. Tel: + 353 91 74 2305. Email: Admissions@gmit.ie
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