Course details

This Level 5 Award course is designed to enable you to work in both specialist and general secretarial environments. In addition to developing your technical skills in a range of office-related activities, you will have a specialist focus on legal practice. You will develop your Microsoft Office skills alongside fast and accurate keyboarding. In completing this course, you will feel confident about working in any secretarial or legal environment and have developed strong individual and team skills.

Programme of Study

  • Legal Practice and Procedures
  • Business Law&
  • Communications
  • Work Experience
  • Word Processing
  • Text Production with Data Entry
  • Audio Transcription
  • Database
  • Spreadsheets

Components subject to change

Entry Requirements

  • Leaving Certificate or equivalent
  • Leaving Certificate Applied with a merit profile
  • Full QQI Level 4 award with a merit profile
  • Mature applicants – experience will be considered in lieu of formal qualifications

Places are offered following successful interview

  • Career Opportunities
  • Legal departments of government
  • Employment as legal executive

Higher Education Progression*

Athlone IT:

  • Business (AL 850);
  • Business & Law (AL 851)

IT Blanchardstown:

  • Business (BN 101);
  • Business & IT (BN 103);
  • International Business (BN110)

BIFE:

  • Office Administration Advanced QQI Level 6(6M4985)

Certification

QQI Level 5 Award in Legal Studies (5M3789)

City & Guilds Level 5 equivalence on the NQF in text production and audio transcription

Updated on 08 November, 2015

About Bray Institute of Further Education

Bray Institute of Further Education (BIFE) caters for learners with a wide variety of needs - from those who want to do University Degrees at hontheirs level to those who are training for employment. 

They are located on Novara Avenue, Bray; 150 metres from the town centre and within walking distance of the Dart station. The Institute is just a short jtheirney from Dublin City Centre. 

Bray Institute of Further Education has been a centre of excellence in the field of Further Education for the past twenty-five years serving all areas of the country including Dublin. 

BIFE is a constituent Institute of Kildare / Wicklow Education Training Board (KWETB).  

They offer a wide range of Further Education (PLC) ctheirses both full and part-time at the Institute.

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