Join as many events of the Welcome Programme as possible.
Welcome Programme
The Welcome Programme is designed to ensure you have all the information you need and is a mix of events to help you settle into college life at NCI. Some meetings are mandatory, some are highly-recommended and others are optional to attend:
Mandatory - Welcome Meeting
The Welcome Meeting is hosted by an International Peer Mentor with a small group of new students. The meeting is mandatory and is pre-scheduled for all new students. Once students submit their Registration form, we can schedule the welcome meeting and email students the time and date and link to join their meeting. At this meeting you will receive information about getting started at NCI.
Highly Recommended Meetings
There are three meetings which we highly recommend every student attends:
- Student Life. At this meeting you will receive information on how to succeed at your studies, support systems in place at NCI, how to adjust to student life.
- The Essentials. At this meeting you will receive information on registering with immigration, opening a bank account, getting your tax number (PPSN) and working in Ireland.
- Orientation - is organised by Student Services for all new students and is held the week before classes start. Students can expect to receive an email from orientation@ncirl.ie with an invitation to join orientation.
All students are asked to view this video as part of their orientation.
Information is also available on the student section of NCI website under New Registration.
Optional are a mix of events:
- Know-How sessions to understand how things work in Ireland.
- Out & About sessions to get to know more about Dublin.
- Meet-Up sessions to meet your Peer Mentors and other NCI students.