LCVP Link Modules case studies
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The LCVP Link Modules examination is the written assessment component of the Leaving Certificate Vocational Programme, an Irish senior-cycle programme that sits alongside a student's Leaving Certificate subjects. It is designed for students who want their academic work connected explicitly to enterprise, the world of work and the local community, and who are willing to build a portfolio of investigative and reflective activity alongside exam preparation. The LCVP Link Modules case studies are 5 cases and about 5,096 words.
1Tech Fix Friday: Is It Enterprise If The Bake Sale Earns More?
Six Transition Year students at a school in Athlone, County Westmeath, have five weeks left to complete their LCVP enterprise action. Their plan is 'Tech Fix Friday': students bring in broken headphones, phone chargers and slow laptops, and the team cleans, repairs or troubleshoots them for a flat fee of €5.
936 words, about 5 min2Barrow Valley Garden Centre: Sorting Local, National And International Pressure
Barrow Valley Garden Centre is a family-run business nine kilometres outside Kilkenny city. It employs nine people, four of them family members, and had sales of about €780,000 last year with a cash reserve of roughly €40,000.
757 words, about 4 min3Two Ideas, Six Weeks: Which Enterprise Should Go Into The Portfolio?
A Leaving Certificate Vocational Programme student in Cork must choose one enterprise idea to develop before the Easter deadline, which leaves six weeks and about eight hours a week alongside revision. Idea A is a phone screen-replacement service: a repair kit and parts cost €400, public liability insurance for a school setting costs €120, and each repair sells for €60 using €25 of parts.
1,077 words, about 5 min4The Killarney Summer Job: €9 An Hour, No Contract, Two Unpaid Shifts
A 17-year-old LCVP student in Killarney is offered a summer job as an accommodation assistant in a 60-bedroom hotel. The manager says on the phone: 'Start Monday, €9 an hour, 39 hours a week, and we'll do the paperwork after the first month like we do with all the summer staff.' She is also asked to work two unpaid 'trial' shifts before Monday to 'see if she's able for it', and is told that on Fridays she will finish at 1 a.m.
1,151 words, about 6 min5Deadlock At The Christmas Fair: Five Students, Sixty Phone Cases
An LCVP mini-company of five students in Letterkenny, County Donegal, has three weeks left before the Christmas fair. They have already spent €270 on 60 plain phone cases at €4.50 each and have €80 left.
1,175 words, about 6 min